
The same idea helps easily organize Mass Effect and its RPG leveling elements. Sure, that sounds like a gimmick, but think of the alternative: the GamePad provides a much more immersive and fun alternative compared with pulling up a menu and selecting an option when you want to choose a new Bat-device. As Batman, you turn on your detective tools and get a sort of annotated, x-rayed look at a place on the controller, letting you uncover secrets and clues, then go back to looking at the TV screen to pull off your karate moves on the bad guys. I really do! I’ll use the Batman and Mass Effect games as an example, since those two are actually improved over the versions on other systems.
You’re not waving it around in the air all the time or anything like that. (Also, weirdly, you can blow into the mic to make things happen.) It feels huge at first, but that feeling disappeared more quickly than I expected it would, and the overall weight of it wasn’t a problem, luckily. There’s a microphone embedded inside, which could be handy for trash-talking while playing online. You poke or swipe at it with a stylus or finger to make movements on screen, and the controller itself is also sensitive to a movement, so you might look around the room by moving it from side to side or motion it up to do a jump. Down there could be a list of items, weapons, a map, a minigame, or a clever way to hide something away from your opponent during a multiplayer game.
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It has a screen right in it–like a portable console that you also use to control a home console. Well, there’s the Wii U GamePad controller. And it usually feels really right, even if not every game makes the most of it.
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And you’ll be doing it with a goofy new controller, which looks like a PS3 controller with a 6.2-inch tablet between your two hands. But the new Nintendo console, the Wii U, is careful not to seem too playful and innocent–launch titles, for example, have you playing as a brooding Batman and a space marine. The original Wii was innovative and flat-out fun enough to make it all work–it seemed charming rather than simplistic.

The big criticism with Nintendo consoles is that they’re engineered for kids. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs.
