Best Nintendo Wii Gifts, Christmas or Otherwise: Wii Games

Maybe that Wii gamer on your list already has every Wii accessory known to man or just isn't interested in a giant plush Mario toy. Maybe the gamer you're buying for is interested in one thing and one thing only, games.

Fortunately, we've got you covered there too. Check out our picks for some of the hottest Nintendo Wii games that would make great gifts for Christmas or any occasion.

Like Star Fox 64 and Wii Fit before it, Wii Sports Resort is the latest Nintendo game to launch with a sweet new peripheral packed in. The included Wii MotionPlus accessory adds a whole new dimension of motion control to your Nintendo Wii.

Now, your controllers can sense and respond with true 1-to-1 fidelity, enabling unprecedented levels of control and immersion in Wii Sports Resort's many awesome mini games including archery, sword fighting, and basketball.

When you give Wii Sports Resort, you're giving both a fantastic game and a sweet peripheral that will be useful in many other games (including Tiger Woods 2010), so you're getting a great value for the price.

Wii Sports Resort is a great party game, and it really shines when everyone has their own Wii MotionPlus and can compete head to head. Some of the events are incredibly intuitive, basketball for example, and effectively simulate the real-life motions of the activity.

Judging by Nintendo's history, the MotionPlus is going to become a pretty much essential accessory for future game releases. What better way to get it than as a free pack in with a great game?

I've extolled the virtues of the Boom Blox series in several other articles here on the site, and with good reason. Boom Blox and the sequel Boom Blox: Bash Party are among my all-time favorite Wii games. I've always been a fan of games that find compelling ways to utilize the Wii's unique controls, and Boom Blox: Bash Party is one of the Wii's best.

Part puzzle game and part action game, Bash Party has literally hundreds of levels for players to work through. Some levels have you using the Wii Remote to destroy towering structures by tossing baseballs and bowling balls. Others have you defending the structures using cannons, explosive blocks, and a slingshot. Still other levels charge you with carefully dismantling structures by painstakingly removing certain blocks, Jenga-style, while hoping to avoid a colossal crash.

Bash Party is one of the few games I've ever played to the point of injury, and then continued on because I didn't want to stop. It would make a great gift for any gamer on your list.

Check out page two for more great game gift picks, including the hottest music game of all time and a great way to get a fantastic workout with your Wii.