We Cheer for Europe in early 2009

By Robert Purchese Published 7 August, 2008

Wii pom-poms from Namco Bandai.

505 Games is bringing Wii cheerleading game We Cheer to Wii in early 2009.

This Namco Bandai outing turns two Wiimotes into a pair of pom-poms, which are waved around in time to music on the screen.

That music, incidentally, features the likes of teeny-boppers Hilary Duff, KC & The Sunshine Band and Paramore.

Cheerleaders can be created from scratch and then customised with various provocative outfits, and additional dancers can be unlocked later in the game to form squads.

We Cheer has a Workout Mode with tailored exercise programs and a virtual fitness instructor, as well as a Cheer Off multiplayer mode for two or four players.

What do we want? We Cheer gallery. When do we want it? Fired?

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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.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Weezer #1 4 years ago

    Christ.

  • yupyup #2 4 years ago

    The baby Jesus wept.

  • mcbi4kh2 #3 4 years ago

    What. The. Fuck.

  • Progguitarist #4 4 years ago

    The list of games just gets better and better doesnt it?

  • DaM #5 4 years ago

    various provocative outfits

    Sold.

    I reckon this could be good fun if they do it right. Which they won't, but there you go. It's not too far removed from Samba Di Amigo, but with manga babes in bikinis instead of monkeys, is it?

  • Splutterbug #6 4 years ago

    Thank god my PS3 arrived yesterday. I love the wii, but E3 was the last straw for me, JUST GIVE ME A REAL GAME!

  • consignia #7 4 years ago

    It would be an instant buy for me, if it was a Japanese style Ouendan. Frankly, I just want more Ouendan. I finally beat Ready Steady Go with the Cheer girls last week, so I'm passionately burning for another sequel. Osu

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #8 4 years ago

    Hey, cheerleaders rule! See: Ouedan/Elite Beat Agents.

    This, however, looks a bit crappy.

  • Progguitarist #9 4 years ago

    Hopefully there'll be a shortage of Wii's come christmas...that way I can get a decent return on mine. Dont even turn it on anymore...theres nothing worth playing now that Im done with Mario and Metroid.

  • Steroyd #10 4 years ago

    505 games WTF!?

    What next Nippon Ichi does a We love Swimming game?

    On that note, does Nintendo hold the sole rights to have Wii in the title like Wii love cheerleading? - I just realised this is a dumb question of course they do. "duh"
    Edited by 1 at 07/08/08 @ 12:05

  • Luxsy #11 4 years ago

    I'm so there

  • bad09 #12 4 years ago

    @ Progguitarist

    Why wait? Traded one a couple of weeks ago, Gamestation and Blockbuster will give £120 trade-in on the console on it's own.

  • Progguitarist #13 4 years ago

    £120? Sweet deal...not sure what you'd get over here in Ireland. I must look into it.

  • bad09 #14 4 years ago

    @ Progguitarist

    Ah didn't realize you was in Ireland I'm sure you would get similar deal though. In all honesty though I wouldn't wait until Christmas, many people seem to be getting rid of Wii at the moment so I don't think there will be a shortage then. The Blockbuster I went to had LOADS of 2nd hand Wii.

  • Rpt81 #15 4 years ago

    Y'all better bring it

  • Progguitarist #16 4 years ago

    Care to name a few titles bucko?

  • toythatkills #17 4 years ago

    This game looks amazing, and anyone that says otherwise is wrong. So it has cheerleaders? Boo hoo. If it was in a different skin and called Ouendan you people would be queuing at midnight to grab a copy. This is exactly how Ouendan on Wii would work.

    Look at the gameplay, not the graphics. It's like listening to a bunch of 10 year old boys who still think girls smell and anything they like is by default, lame. Honestly.

  • Xerx3s #18 4 years ago

    /facepalm

    So it inevitably has come to this then.

  • thedaveeyres #19 4 years ago

    This is gonna be AWESOME!

  • Waldo #20 4 years ago

    When they showed the trailer in EB Games yesterday, I had to look away from the screen in embarrassment.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #21 4 years ago

    Actually I can't be arsed!

    Anyhow kids, remember: It's not the bad titles that makes a console. is the good ones.
    Edited by 2 at 07/08/08 @ 15:27

  • Progguitarist #22 4 years ago

    "Look at the gameplay, not the graphics. It's like listening to a bunch of 10 year old boys who still think girls smell and anything they like is by default, lame. Honestly. "

    I remember posting things like this in defense of the Wii..."The games will come", I kept assuring myself. Little did I know *what* games where coming. Cheerleading, beach sports and cooking sims ahoy!

  • kasabian72 #23 4 years ago

    my philosophy: keep the wii around for MADWORLD, CONDUIT, ANIMAL CROSSING 2, FATAL FRAME 4, TALES OF SYMPHONIA 2, WII SPORTS RESORT, PIKMIN 3, DEAD RISING, RED STEEL 2, WARIOLAND SHAKE IT, TENCHU 4, SKY CRAWLERS, unannounced 1st party games, VC games, wiiware games, GCN games, or ps2/psp/dreamcast ports that i might like.

    afterall, just because eurogamer does an article about WE CHEER doesn't mean i have have to buy it, play it, be interested in it, or read about it. it doesn't mean that other games i might like will be cancelled either. it just means there's another game for a different group of wii owners.

    still, it's always fun to read numerous (ex)wii owners threatening to sell there wii after articles such as this. i'm no fanboy though, feel free to sell it. you could get a high end 360 or a ps3 with the profits and enjoy their many great games. it's great to be a multi-system owner(and i'm just one of the 'casual' gamers)
    Edited by 1 at 07/08/08 @ 18:48

  • neonemesis #24 4 years ago

    This is a new low.

    Its kind of funny that something like this and madworld would sit on the same shelf in a games shop, absolutely hilarious.

    Keep it real and buy the latter when its released, you owe it to the industry.