Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures - WiiWare Bound?

Cracking news, Gromit! Everyone’s favourite plastcine duo are to star in a series of adventures thanks to those kind chaps at Telltale games, and although we’re probably getting ahead of ourselves here, it’s highly likely that the platform for these episodic escapades is going to be WiiWare.

by Damien McFerran Tue 29th Jul 2008

Called Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures, the series should follow the same format as Telltale’s Sam and Max titles, with each episode giving a few hours’ worth of gameplay. Whilst it is likely that this series of games will come to WiiWare, Emily Morganti, the marketing coordinator over at Telltale Games has said this is still undecided. Lets hope the Wii's storage problem doesn't become a problem as it did for Hothead's Penny Arcade.

Be sure to check out the official site for screens, concept artwork and a teaser trailer.

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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AlexSays
Tue 29th Jul 2008

This is good news. I've always liked Wallace and Gromit.
And I'm glad more of these episode-type games are being announced. Since I'm not too interested in Strong Bad.

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Objection
Tue 29th Jul 2008

I have a question to anyone who can answer. For telltale (and others) 's games that are broken into episodes, will each episode take up a channel or will they all be one channel (One game) that you access the different episodes from? I'd prefer the latter

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fco
Tue 29th Jul 2008

At least with Strong Bad, it'll be one channel per episode.

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Phantom5800
Tue 29th Jul 2008

Interesting, but I would rather buy a compilation disc like for Sam and Max. Still looking forward to Strong Bad though, damn I want it

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MrPoo6321
Tue 29th Jul 2008

I love Wallace and Gromit.... they're hilarious. I'm always skeptical whenever they take something and turn it into a video game though, like a movie, cartoon or comic book.

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doabarrelroll27
Tue 29th Jul 2008

I played a Wallas and Gromit game on the Gamecube and it was a favorite of mine. I cant w8 for this!

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Ian_Daemon
Tue 29th Jul 2008

Where my game is at?

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Tides_of_Chaos
Tue 29th Jul 2008

I would definitely be interested in this coming to Wii in some way, shape or form. Wallace & Gromit FTW!

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Peznaze
Tue 29th Jul 2008

Not a sure thing, but it's quite likely... Just don't count your cheese before it's properly sliced!

If it comes along for WiiWare, instant purchase for me.

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David77
Tue 29th Jul 2008

I hope it's coming. But not from telltale. Beside that, I lost hope. Wiiware is going to be remember as the place where you get the ugliest and less fun games ever. To date, wiiware is a real mess. Don't give me Toki Tori or Lostwinds as exemple of good games. They are alone after weeks of release. And I fear the worst is coming.

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Draygone
Wed 30th Jul 2008

I dunno. If those are actual in-game images, I'll be somewhat surprised if it manages to land on WiiWare. Those graphics look like they'd take up a lot of memory (how many polygons can you spot?). However, the game does sound like an awesome idea.

Comment to earlier worry: does it really matter whether episodic content takes up more than one channel or not? It's not like the Wii has enough memory to fill all the channel spaces, anyway. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if all episodes would take up the majority of the memory allowed to begin with.