Nintendo World Report highlights the best of the year that was.
On the other side of the coin, games that people expect a lot from should deliver on that hype. Those that don't are labeled as disappointments. The NWR Award for the Most Disappointing game is a dubious honor given to the title that failed the most in making good on its pre-release expectations, or simply just wasn't the game everyone wanted it to be. So dubious, in fact, the “winner" doesn't even get to take home one of our awards. It just gets to imagine what might have been, just like everyone else.
It was the first real Wii game announced. It was to be a first person shooter that used the Wii controller in the way we all thought would be perfect: Shooting guns and swinging swords. Although early demo builds were buggy, people still looked at the bright spots of the game and assumed Ubisoft would put it together in time for the Wii launch. They didn't; the game felt rushed and unfinished, cut scenes looked like incomplete storyboards, voice acting was stereotypically bad and the multiplayer was an afterthought. It wasn't the game people thought it would be, and therefore is our biggest disappointment of 2006.
Runner-up: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz 
The single player was solid, but these days Monkey Ball is all about the party games. Sega somehow managed to screw up the most important part by weakening the traditional powerhouses like Monkey Target, then adding in dozens of worthless garbage games. The final straw was the game forcing you to play through them to get the fun stuff. Banana Blitz should have been the perfect game for the Wii. It wasn't.
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