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Pikmin (Wii)

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Description

After crashing on a strange unexplored planet, Captain Olimar must gather the thirty missing parts of his space ship, before his life support runs out in thirty days and he succumbs to the planet hostile atmosphere. Luckily the Pikmin, a plant/insect life form native to the planet, are there to help him. Olimar must gather and lead the Pikmin in this real time strategy game to collect the missing pieces of his ship while combating the planet's strange and sometimes hostile flora and fauna.

Screenshots

There are no Wii screenshots for this game.

There are 29 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.


Alternate Titles

  • "皮克敏" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
  • "Pikumin" -- Japanese title
  • "ピクミン" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

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The Press Says

Nintendo Official Magazine (NOM) UK Feb 05, 2009 86 out of 100 86
Retroage Nov 27, 2011 8 out of 10 80
WiiDSFrance Feb 09, 2009 7.5 out of 10 75
Jeuxvideo.com Feb 02, 2009 15 out of 20 75
videogamer.com Feb 17, 2009 7 out of 10 70
Eurogamer.net (UK) Jan 28, 2009 7 out of 10 70
JeuxActu Feb 11, 2009 14 out of 20 70
JeuxVideoPC.com Feb 02, 2009 13 out of 20 65
4Players.de Feb 11, 2009 65 out of 100 65
Gamekult Feb 03, 2009 6 out of 10 60

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The GameCube version of Pikmin appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Disc

At the start of a day the game dumps the information for that day onto the GameCube's internal memory. Therefore the game-disc can be removed without interrupting gameplay until the day ends.

References

  • Captain Olimar's spaceship is named Dolphin. "Dolphin" was Nintendo's project name for the GameCube.
  • If you break down the name of Captain Olimar into component Japanese letters, o-ri-ma, you'll notice it is "Mario" backwards.

Awards

  • Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences
    • 2001 - Innovation in Console Gaming Award
  • GameSpy
    • 2001 – Ga,eCube Game of the Year
Information also contributed by Jiguryo, Opipeuter Inconnivus and Sciere

Related Web Sites

  • Critical Gaming Pikmin Course (The Critical-Gaming Network's first course in their series on Pikmin, a particular focus being paid to RTS design and dynamics (May, 2009).)
  • Nintendo (Publishers and owners of the Pikmin franchise, Nintendo.)
  • Pikmin.com (Official Pikmin website)
Opipeuter (16477) added Pikmin (Wii) on Dec 21, 2008
Other platforms contributed by Andrew Grasmeder (205)