Nintendo is reportedly going to announce three new titles that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has been working on, according an article by TIME (via NeoGAF), which appears to have been published a bit ahead of schedule.
The first of which is a new entry in the Star Fox franchise, which apparently makes excellent use of the GamePad. Here's what the article had to say about this airborne Wii U action game:
Star Fox is back, only reimagined on the Wii U using Miyamoto’s new GamePad-based controls — controls that’ll ask of players things they’ve never had to do before in a video game. Whether they’ll come willing or balk remains to be seen, but Miyamoto is convinced he’s on to a control scheme that’s not only novel, but with practice, indispensable.
In his new version of Star Fox — still fundamentally a spaceship-based shooter — players now use the GamePad’s motion controls to aim and fire the Arwing’s weapons, simultaneously controlling the nimble craft itself by thumbing the joysticks to accelerate or turn and pull off signature moves like barrel rolls, loops and the tactically essential Immelman turn. And you can still morph your Arwing into a land tank, rocketing down to the surface of a planet, then rattling around the battlefield and laying waste to the landscape.
In addition, Miyamoto has been allegedly working on two other games, the first of which is currently called Project Giant Robot, which according to TIME, has "players control sky-scraping automatons, angling the Wii U GamePad in front of a TV screen while shifting their torsos left and right or up and down to maneuver the robot’s upper-body while thumbing the controller’s joysticks to punch or grab — almost like a full-body game of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots."
The screen on the GamePad provides the view from the robot's perspective. Meanwhile, the television provides "a zoomed-back view, letting onlookers — as well as you — admire your tromping, pummeling handiwork."
Finally, there's Project Guard, yet another new game for Wii U that relies heavily on the tablet controller and its second screen, which serves as "a quick-jump map of a fortress manned by numbered, laser-firing security cameras."
Then, "as robots encroach on different entry points, you have to tap the GamePad to leap from camera to camera, blasting enemies that trundle or come at you sprinting — even some that sneak under your radar. All the while, onlookers can shout out the numbers that correspond to robot-threatened camera feeds, turning your defense operations into a frenetic, heart-racing, tap-and-fire scramble."
Nintendo has yet to announce these games, but given that the leak is from TIME and there a actual photographs of Miyamoto playing the games, there's a very good chance we'll be hearing about all three of these titles during the Big N's media briefing, which airs in less than two hours' time.
