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Wii Music, also known as Wii Orchestra, is a Wii game that simulates instruments using the Wii Remote. It will contain an orchestra and drum game, as confirmed by Nintendo Power. It is a counterpart to Wii Sports and Wii Play. Wii Music was originally suggested as a launch title, but no new information has been released since E3 2006. Players will be able to create their own sounds, and try to play with pre-made songs, in the style of Drummania.

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So far, the only games revealed to be in Wii Music are the same ones shown since the Tokyo Game Show 2005 conference. Both of these games are fully playable.

    * Drums uses the Wii controller and the Nunchuk together to simulate drum sticks. You use the drums just like you would do in real life, by moving your arms up and down to hit the drums and make noise. You hit the drums symphonically to make music. The game supports split-screen multiplayer.

    * Orchestra uses the Wii controller to conduct an orchestra. You swing the Wii controller up and down to a certain tempo. Moving the Wii controller quickly with no real rhythm will make your Miis play frantically, and if you do the contrary, by doing slow, graceful movements will create dragging notes and longer tones. There are no indicators of any kind to tell you how well or unwell you are conducting the song, you must try to match the original music as best you can remember, and experiment which movements give better results. At the song's conclusion a round of applause emanates from the TV and the game gives you a numerical score. Below the score, the game informs you of your rank as a conductor. The classifications include Passionate, Graceful, and Methodical. Those players keeping an even tempo through the song are usually ranked as Methodical, where as players who swung wildly without keeping track of the rhythm of the song are usually deemed as Passionate.

Since this game is still in development, more game modes could and are expected to be added to Wii Music.

lexielab

Feb 26 2007, 02:39 PM

Drum game? And neither Ingram or Demaar have said anything yet? Wake up guys :poke:

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- gameplay centered on ‘Play Sessions’

- music from Nintendo Sound Team (old BGMs and new music)

- Folk Guitars, Base Guitars, Trumpets, Maracass, Marimbas and much more. Over 40 parts/instruments available

- Be the conductor as well

- Each part has different controls (ex - trumpet makes strong sounds if Wiimote is at high angle, weak sounds if held low. Play drums with two Wiimotes. Guitar has you using the C button as a pick.)

- You can play 6 parts together: 4 for humans, 2 for AI

- Replay options

- Release date in 2008 TBA