Video and Photo: Nintendo Unlocks the Wonders of the Sea With Endless Ocean for Wii

Video and Photo: Nintendo Unlocks the Wonders of the Sea With Endless Ocean
for Wii
The Whole Family Can Go for an Exploratory Dive and Encounter Sea Creatures

REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Nintendo invites you to dive into
a new genre of video games. Launching this week for Wii(TM), Endless Ocean(TM)
lets users discover a vast undersea adventure at their own pace. It's like a
virtual scuba vacation in the tropics that includes interaction with hundreds
of different animal species, relaxing swims through brilliant coral reefs and
exploratory dives on wrecks of ships and warplanes. With the game's intuitive
controls and beautiful underwater visuals, every member of the family will
want a chance to dive in.
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Endless Ocean contains everything you might find on a real ocean scuba
dive. Divers can find dozens of different treasures, from gold bullion to
ancient artifacts. The marine biology encyclopedia lets divers record the
different animals they spot and learn facts about each one. Divers might
encounter more than 230 types of creatures, including penguins, tropical fish,
sharks, whales and trainable dolphins. The stunning visuals will make you feel
like your TV has transformed into an undersea portal. Navigation is simple
too: To swim, just point the Wii Remote(TM) and press the B Button; to examine
an object, just point at it and press the A Button.
"Endless Ocean is a siren song for adventurers, family gamers and the just
plain curious," says Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice
president of sales & marketing. "Kids will love meeting and cataloguing all
the sea life they meet, while their parents can lose themselves in a seemingly
unlimited underwater landscape."
When connected to Nintendo(R) Wi-Fi Connection, Nintendo's wireless gaming
service, two divers who have exchanged Friend Codes can dive and explore their
environment together. Divers can listen to diving music by international
best-selling artist Hayley Westenra or play audio files from an SD card.
Endless Ocean is one of two games Nintendo is releasing this week that
demonstrates the way the company continues to appeal to both core and casual
gamers. While Endless Ocean for Wii invents a new casual-game genre, Advance
Wars(R): Days of Ruin for Nintendo DS(TM) is a turn-based strategy game that
appeals to both existing fans of the series and newcomers to the strategy
genre.
Remember that Wii features parental controls that let adults manage the
content their children can access. For more information about this and other
Wii features, visit Wii.com. For more information about Endless Ocean, visit
EndlessOcean.com.
About Nintendo
The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment,
Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and
software for its Wii(TM), Nintendo DS(TM), Game Boy(R) Advance and Nintendo
GameCube(TM) systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold nearly 2.5 billion video
games and more than 430 million hardware units globally, and has created
industry icons like Mario(TM), Donkey Kong(R), Metroid(R), Zelda(TM) and
Pokemon(R). A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in
Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the
Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's
Web site at http://www.nintendo.com.
SOURCE Nintendo

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