Disney doing Spectrobes for Wii

By Robert Purchese Published 20 February, 2009

Donald, Daffy aiming for autumn 2009.

Disney has revealed Spectrobes: Origins for Wii and plans to launch the game this autumn.

The previously DS-bound series hops onto console with a brand new story, Wii motion-sensing controls, large-scale real-time battles and a fleshed-out 3D RPG world. We've popped a couple of pictures up to illustrate this.

Spectrobes are the creatures players run around world trying to collect, training them into fighting machines with which to maul evil monsters. So it's a bit like Pokmon, with a cartoony world to match.

The two DS instalments - Spectrobes and Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals - have shipped over 1.6 million copies around the world and are every bit as compelling as the content suggests.

Not quite as good as Pokmon, to continue with the comparison, but worthy of an afternoon or five nonetheless. Head over to our Spectrobes DS review to find out why.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    I quite likes Spectrobes and it's real-time combat, avoidable enemies, and the fact that all your creatures were dug out of the ground by your own hand. It was a bit guff though, I liked it despite it flaws.

  • robg #2 3 years ago

    /Have/ you popped up the pictures, or is that page broken? :)

  • OtaruSnow #3 3 years ago

    "Donald, Daffy aiming for autumn 2009."

    Erm, aside from this being a bit of an odd tagline for a story on a Disney game that doesn't actually feature any Disney characters, Daffy (I assume you mean Daffy Duck) is a Warner Bros character. Maybe just stick to bad excavation/archeology puns for Spectrobes.