I'm playing through this right now, and (as usual) I absolutely love aiming with the Wiimote. Up close you rarely miss unless you panic, but at a distance the steadiness of your hand plays a big role in your accuracy. It feels much more natural and fluid than with a gamepad, but doesn't have the insane accuracy of a mouse.

More than motion controls, I'd like to see a pointer of some sort in all future console releases. Shooters and strategy games in particular would benefit greatly from it.

Tsk tsk tsk. Another young innocent lost to the murder simulators.

Godfather is pretty fun. I was playing with my friend and we both enjoyed it. In my short play time it got a little repetitive.

I've been playing it on the Wii, I'm stuck at the boss battle with Bitores Mendez, anyone have any tips on how to beat him?

And is there any point in hording any of the treasures you find? I understand some go together and they increase in price, but is there any point in not selling them?

I just started "Professional Mode" and it's really good. What hand gun are you guys going with? I used the Red9 in my first playthrough (I seemed to get a lot of head shots and liked the 5.0 power), but I also enjoyed the Blacktail that Ada started off with. Higher capacity and quick reloads are good in a big firefight, but I kind of missed the extra power of the Red9.

Another little tip I just realized (and that I totally missed on my first playthrough). Upgrading a weapon's ammo capacity refills your clip for free! This was a big help after I emptied out my shotgun, but knew the there was a merchant nearby so I got an entire clip for free. Pretty sweet.

Something freaky happened in the first stage that I had never seen before. I got a headshot on a villager when he was really close to me that took off his entire head, but he still grabbed me around the neck and started to choke me! It really freaked me out since I was playing at night, in the dark; this headless guy choking me. I shook him off and Leon did his little "flip kick," which usually takes the guy's head off, but since his head was already gone Leon wiffed and the body crumpled to ground.

With the Chief, the first thing you want to do is skip the cutscene. Skipping cutscenes always give you a few extra seconds to react. Toss a grenade for an instant stun and then unload with your TMP. He'll bend over exposing his spine. You should unload with your shotgun at close range. If you can lure him over by the exploding barrel, it will stun him a second time.

Then he transforms to his second form and moves around in the rafters. I ran out of TMP ammo and switched to my Red9. Shoot him a few times when he's farthest away from you and he falls to ground. Throw a grenade at this point or just run up and shoot him with a powerful weapon.

When he moves over towards you, sprint past him, across the opposite end of the barn and do a "quick turn" and keep firing. You may take a hit or two. There is some ammo and a grenade spread around the first floor of the barn.

Do not climb up to the second floor of the barn! Your movement is too restricted. However, be sure to climb up there after the fight to get all the goodies.

As for fancy treasures (like gold mirrors and the such), you can sell them all execpt for things like lanterns and masks that have a description that hints at the fact it can hold jewels. Anytime you get something with a color name, "like "Purple pin" or "Blue eye," you can bet it probably fits into a piece of treasure. I've come across a Beer Stein, two Masks and a Butterfly lantern that allo held jewels. The extra money you get for selling an item decked out in three jewels is worth it!

Pointer based gunplay: probably not the way of the future, but something I'll bitch about the Xbox 720 not having.

Eh, I hope both traditional dual analog and pointer-based shooters have room in the future. RE4's restrictions on how you can move just translate extremely well, and I doubt there's a control scheme that can handle that and allow the player to move in a more traditional manner as well.

On second thought, "pointer-based" is probably not the appropriate thing to call it, as the remote isn't actually pointing at the cursor. In essence, it's a giant analog stick, tipped ninety degrees forward, and attached to nothing.

I loved Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube. Traded it in for the Wii version and played all the way through. Loved it even more. Never finished the Ada stuff, though, and I really should.

I don't think Metroid Prime is a great example. It felt comparable to Doom in it's auto aim.

I haven't played Metroid, yet. Still too engrossed with shooting Ganados in the knees, face, and tentacle. In that order.

I don't expect it to work as well as RE4 does, where the tankish Leon controls gel with the remote so well. Unlike Leon, I don't think Samus has to stand dead still to fire.

In my usual, quasi-crazy 'one-feature-makes-or-breaks-a-game-for-me' I must admit I had this same thought. I loved the laser sight so much in the GC version that I literally roared out a blasphemy and slammed my fist down on a magazine containing a preview shot of the 'fancy-pants' new cursor, and never looked at Wii version again.

I played it throught twice on the GC, and three or four times on the PS2--The Ada missions augment the main storyline nicely. I haven't really played much on the Wii, and as I've played this game silly I don't see myself purchasing another version--but if I ever DO get a Wii, I might...

As for the village chief, I haven't played the game without an already completed save for a long time, so all my equipment is sorta maxed out, but I would go with the TMP and grenades at first, and the sniper rifle when he breaks in half and moves along the rafters--If you nail him while he's swinging, he falls to the floor and is stunned for a few seconds, giving you time to toss a grenade his way, or just go for another shot.

There are also segments where you drive vehicles with terrible controls!

I miss the days of FPS games with objectives, like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark and TimeSplitters 2. I really enjoyed having a list of things I had to do on my way through the hallways blowing things away. A lot of them seem to just be getting from point A to point B, which is fine, but everything feels a lot like super-pretty and better-controlling Doom.

Yeah, even if they are hidden, ala Half-Life 2, where there's not list, just some guy that will yell at you if you don't hurry up and do it. Kinda like in episode 2 w/ the, go get this to help that person not die, or the defend this base objectives. They just mask them so it all forms together into one continuous experience instead of mission breifing screens.

Two points. First, the learning curve is pretty steep, particularly for someone that plays games sparingly. They don't get to enjoy the fun, tactical aspects of a game until they stop staring at their feet, and that can take awhile. Even gaining enough control to see their opponent can be difficult.

Second, even for established players, individual player shooting ability exists on a wider spectrum than, say, a mouse and keyboard setup. (This is especially true for games that incorporate recoil into the weapons, thus preventing super awesome mouse+KB shots from dominating.) There are players than can hit a moving target with a sniper rifle, and players that occasionally miss point blank shots from behind. It's almost like certain players have special abilities that allow (or prevent) particular tactics and strategies.