Top 10 Wii Exclusives

Hand over your hard-earned cash for some seriously good games.

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! And you know what that means don't you? It's time to whip out your wallet and hand over your hard-earned cash for some seriously good games. In this special series of VideoGamer.com Top 10s, we list the best exclusive games for each of the seven major platforms and tell you why they're so ruddy brilliant. Today, we run amok with Nintendo's motion sensing Wii. It's not just a console for casuals, you know.

10. Dead Space Extraction - 2009

On-rails Dead Space spin-off Extraction looks the business. It's one of the most detailed, atmospheric games on Nintendo's power-starved console, and shows exactly what can be done when a developer puts its mind to it. But it's also a wonderful example of the modern on-rails shooter. There's more to Extraction than simply pointing and shooting. The characters are believable, giving the impression that you're more in control than you really are. There are four weapon slots to manage, alien body parts to target, branching paths and the occasional free-look moment. Dead Space: Extraction is easily one of the best games out on the Wii, and a worthy companion to its "next-gen" big brother.

9. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 2008

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a nuclear Nintendo bomb. There is such a bewildering number of playable characters, lifted from all four corners of the Nintendo universe (and some from other universes), that fans might struggle to take it all in. But it's not the character roster that makes Brawl so much fun. It's the addictive, surprisingly deep fighting system that keeps Wii owners coming back for more for months on end. Brawl rewards players for forcing opponents off of platforms, not for reducing their hit points to zero. This lends the game a laugh out loud, frantic feel that other multiplayer-focused Wii games can't touch. Buy it, play it, and earn the right to be called a true Nintendo fanboy.