The Wii does not have quite as many games as its competitors but still it has seen a number of great games several of which are exclusive to the system which means that they can only be played on the Wii. The best of these are created by Nintendo itself and feature its famous characters created over the decades.
Probably the most famous of those is Mario the plumber who has been entertaining gamers for more than 25 years with a variety of platforms, puzzles and racing games. The latest Mario game, Super Mario Galaxy, is reckoned by some to be the best ever and is perhaps the best Wii game to date. As the name suggests it is set in outer space where Mario has to travel from planet to planet solving puzzles and defeating enemies.
After Mario the best-known Nintendo series is Zelda and here too the Wii features a stellar new game called the Twilight Princess, an action-adventure story where you play as Link and fight monsters from an alternate universe called the Twilight Realm.
Other games with Nintendo characters are Metroid Prime 3, an adventure game set in outer space and Super Smash Bros Brawl: a fighting game. Among the non-Nintendo games perhaps the most interesting is Boom Blox, designed with the help of Steven Spielberg [Images] and featuring hundreds of physics-based puzzles where you break up elaborate structures made of blocks using various projectiles.
The bottom line when it comes to games is that the Wii may not have as many games as the PS3 and Xbox but it has some unique games with a wide appeal that goes beyond traditional gamers. Since the Wii has sold maximum number of machines by far you can expect more great games in the next couple of years as developers find ways to exploit its unique controls.