I have been having an internal conversation about just what I think of Wii Music these past weeks. Nintendo have done something remarkable just to accomplish this – a game that is not a game but tries to do more and in so doing becomes something of a stumbling block for most gamers.

I adore music. Not just as a consumer (an apt description), but as a musician too. I can’t pretend to be a virtuoso but I am able to play a number of instruments in a pleasant sort of fashion. This is important because it colours my experience of Wii Music to a large degree. If you do not play an instrument, haven’t learned music theory or haven’t ever really listened closely to the music you hear, then your experience will be vastly different to mine.

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In addition to celebrating their first year in South Africa, Core Gaming recently held the launch of Wii Music in Johannesburg. Wii Music will be landing on South African shelves before Christmas so make sure you don’t miss out on Nintendo’s latest musical innovation because it’s sure to fill many stockings this festive season.

It felt like something of a covert operation, the two Wii Music discs having been flown in especially for the launch that morning and returning back to Europe the very next day. We were given the chance to try our hand (and ears) at the game so make sure you read our preview to find out more about what makes it tick.

Everyone was eager to jump into the two Wii Music stations which had been set up on HD TV’s in the room. As usual there was plenty to keep you occupied, when you weren’t waving your baton around you could see how your fitness has faired since your last Wii Fit experience, if you dared, or participate in the Brain Age challenge. The Brain Age Challenge saw us filing towards the locker-room area and pitted us against one another with the winner boasting the lowest Brain Age walking away with a shiny new DS and a copy of Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training.

The real stars of the show were Mario and Luigi, who ambled in soon after the event began and stole most of the ladies’ attention for the time their schedule allowed them to spend with us lowly gamers.

Wii Music will be available across South Africa on the 20th of November for R549.

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The major difference between Wii Music and other music games on the market is that Wii Music allows players to participate regardless of their musical or gaming experience. Players can quite simply pick up the Wii Remote and start playing 50 tracks with over 60 instruments.

The concept is simple, choose which instrument you want to play, whether it be the electric guitar, trumpet or even the marimba, and move the Wii Remote and Nunchuk as if you were playing the real instrument. Hold the Nunchuk in your left hand and strum with the Wii Remote in your right hand if you are playing the guitar, lift the Wii Remote to your mouth and push the ‘1’ and ‘2’ button to play the sax or tickle the ivories by lightly alternating between the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Although you need no experience with the instruments, it remains intuitive as you soulfully strum the guitar or bellow out a classic on the sax as you would in real life.

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Wii Music is Nintendo’s latest social experiment to release on the Wii, and it looks incredibly intriguing, with the ability to play a large variety of classic tunes across a huge variety of instruments, enabling you to either reproduce the melody of a given set of music, or add your own twist and flavour, all with the WiiMote and Nunchuck.

Probably the best advert yet for Wii Music features DJ Reverend Run experimenting with the available instruments, and then collaborating with his sons to create something pretty unique. Watch below.

Wii Music has already been released in the US, but the rest of the world will get to experiment on November 14th.

While they may seem like a disparate bunch, all aiming to add something new to their respective genres, Wii Music, Prince of Persia and Mirror’s Edge all have something in common… they all have confirmed release dates! To a fashion…

North American gamers can expect to get their hands on Wii Music, Nintendo’s latest attempt to infiltrate your home, on the 20th of October. No other release date has been announced, but Europeans should expect to be able to play music with their Wiimote and Nunchuck not long after.

Ubisoft’s next entry into the Prince of Persia franchise, aptly named Prince of Persia, can be expected on the 5th of December in the UK, while Europe gets it the day before. This time, no specific US release date has been confirmed, but it will probably be sometime before if not on the same day, releasing on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Lastly, DICE’s new first-person runner (FPR?), Mirror’s Edge, has been given a November 11th release date for the US, while the UK and Europe will be running, jumping and sliding through a multi-coloured city on November 14th, available on Xbox 360 and PS3, with a PC release scheduled a little after the consoles. This is all adding up to a full calender…

Wii Music allows up to four players to choose from over 60 different musical instruments before beginning a jamming session.

Whether it be a guitar, drums, banjo, sitar, piano or marimba, players simply imitate playing the instrument – there are no complex buttons and players of all skill levels can enjoy it since you cannot make mistakes in this game.

Players use simple motions with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk like strumming and drumming to play to the beat of a song or improvise by playing faster or slower or skipping a beat. The game automatically transfers your improvisations into music.

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