Open Your Wallet: Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Need for Speed Most Wanted out this week
Yes, believe it or not there are Wii U games being released this week in Australia. It’s been a while!
There hasn’t been a retail Wii U game released in Australia since January 19th, yes two months ago. To further make that drought feel worse there hasn’t been a single Nintendo 3DS game of note aside from last weeks title, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate.
However, Marge – the rains are here.
From this week, the games are coming on both the Wii U and the 3DS. So lets look forward to this week and see what we’re getting.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – Wii U and 3DS
Alright so its not a new, new game but however the amount of people who actually played Monster Hunter Tri/3 on the Wii in Australia isn’t going to be that high.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is essentially the same game on both consoles and you can even transfer your save between the two to continue the hunt on the go. You can read our review of the Wii version here, we hope to have an updated review for you shortly.
Need for Speed Most Wanted – Wii U
Alright alright, so yes not exactly another new game either but with the amount of work Criterion have put into this put we should be grateful. The game is a solid port with the best looking graphics of any of the console versions, it uses the PC assets! There’s also a fancy new co-driver mode for use on the GamePad or you can use the GamePad to play the game Off TV play. However, the game is ‘full price’ which is going to turn a lot of people off.
Hardware Bundles – Monster Hunter 3DS and Wii U
With some actual games to play, it might be time to jump into the Wii U and/or the 3DS. There are two bundles, The Wii U Limited Edition Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Premium Pack will come with a Black 32GB Wii U Console, a black Wii U Pro Controller and a copy of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate of course. The 3DS XL Bundle is a new all black colour and also includes a copy of the game preinstalled.
So then, what are you picking up or are you waiting until next week where there’s even more fun?
my poor wallet… my poor poor wallet…
Most Wanted would be how much? I might try and get the digital release.
Yes! My week of lucky. What a coincidence, I did some price comparison before coming here. Ozgameshop looks the place to go.
For those of you not wanting to wait the extra 2 weeks or so for shipping from Ozgameshop, Big W have just released a new catalogue with some pretty decent prices on Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate;
http://catalogues.bigw.com.au/catalogue/big-w-catalogue-the-easter-eggathon-is-now-on/4txc0dwwl.html?pid=promotedCatalogue#pageNo=20
Wii U version is $68, 3DS version is $58.
Cheers for that! Hopefully they have plenty of stock Saturday when I can make my way in to pick up my copy.
i havent bought a wiiu yet and there wasnt any games of interest to me to begin with except for Sonic transformed racing, rayman legends and nintendo land. i was holding off untill the wiiu fixed its problems such as the long loading screens etc. now its time to reap the benefits of waiting this long. cannot wait to get the MH3U wiiu bundle.
Well, the long loading times haven’t been fixed yet (although it should be soon) so I can’t see any benefits of having waited 3 months other than the bit of money you save buying the Monster Hunter bundle.
there are a lot of benefits, not having to wait and install the two massive updates which if you bought on launch day you would most likely want to play be then you had to wait hours for it to function 100%. the game titles that are released back then weren’t enough for me to buy it and right now there are titles i want so if i bought it back then id be bored with just Nintendo land (fecking love that game but would get tedious after 3 months). and with this bundle i get the pro controller with it so waiting does have its benefits madam Matthew!
So Need for Speed will be up on the eShop on launch day then? Hopefully at midnight too? I’m excited for that. Not so much Monster Hunter, didn’t like the demo of it. Also, Luigi’s Mansion 2 next week yay!
Don’t judge the game on the basis of its demo, especially if you’re new to the series. The demo is kind of aimed at people who are familiar with the mechanics of Monster Hunter games.
Like Jeff said, don’t judge it based on the demo. Other than a basic feel of the combat (which the demo does a poor job of taking you through), you miss out on a lot of things that make it… well, monster hunter.
Even though MH3U is not strictly new, the amount of new content that’s been added to the game has at least doubled the size of the game. Especially the weapon types that weren’t in Tri.