14 DAY TRIAL // Even though it's winter time pretty much everywhere in the world, Majesco Entertainment thought it would be nice to bring the hot, arid climate of the African continent right on your Wii. As Wild Earth: African Safari has just been announced for Nintendo's console, be sure the game launches in time for the warm season. Majesco just wanted to break it to you.
"Wild Earth: African Safari encompasses several great passions - photography, travel and the outdoors - and combines them into a fun and informative interactive experience," said John Merchant, Marketing Manager, Majesco Europe. "With exclusive new features found only in the Wii version, Wild Earth: African Safari lets people experience one of nature's most complex and diverse habitats, without needing their passport or inoculations."
Here's how it goes: as a player, you assume the role of a photo-journalist going on a journey to take quality pictures of 30 different wild life species inhabiting the Serengeti National Park. Naturally, you won't just be bouncing around the place making yourself noticed (and who knows, maybe even get eaten by lions). Instead, players have to be cautious, not get too close and have a steady hand. In fact, getting too close to the wild life will have your Wii Remote rumbling so hard that it'll be very difficult to take a good shot of anything.
The shots are of course for an informative magazine's pictorials, so you're going to have to be very professional about this. But that doesn't mean you won't be able to experience accurately presented flora and terrain from the Serengeti National Park in Africa, at different times of day and in varied weather. Grasses, shrubs, flowers, kopjes (rocky outcroppings), streams and lakes provide a life-like experience and terrific photo opportunities.
There's also an exclusive new Safari Mini-Game mode (available only in the Wii version of the game, as the fact sheet implies) that lets you use the Wii Remote to play from the animal's perspective in 11 different games.
Wild Earth: African Safari is due out summer 2008. It's currently under development at Super X Studios as a spectacular safari adventure set in Africa's Serengeti National Park, where players take top-notch photos of the continent's exotic animals.