Before you ask, this isn’t some kind of joke. Bigben Interactive has decided that it is going to take the next step with its Wii fitness game and stuff a whole exercise bike in the box. Don’t get excited and race to your local store to see it for yourself, it seems like only European gamers may see it on shelves.
The Wii exercise bike peripheral will be released in January 2010 with a game called Cyberbike. As you can guess, it comes in in a very large box. Just look at the image to your right. You hook up the exercise bike to your Wii, start up the game, and start biking. I’d recommend setting it up on a flat, stable surface. The last thing you’d want is to tip over while you’re using that thing.
While Cyberbike is designed to cash in on the Wii fitness craze, it isn’t all about exercise. There is a Fitness Mode, but there are also Story and Multiplayer Modes. In Story Mode, your in-game character is tasked with cleaning up litter contaminating the 18 courses that they are riding on. I have no idea how players are actually expected to do this while peddling. Maybe you’re supposed to tilt your body left and right. No, that’s probably not a good idea. I doubt that exercise bike peripheral could take that. Maybe there are buttons on the handlebars. In Multiplayer Mode, players take turn using the exercise bike to go through courses.
So people don’t get tired of watching the same character on the same bike, there’s a bit of variety as well. The 18 courses in Cyberbike take place on different kinds of terrain and different environments, necessitating different kinds of bike-like vehicles. Screenshots show a bike, a bike/helicopter hybrid, what looks like a bike on railroad tracks and a submarine. Doing well in the various game modes unlocks new paint schemes for your bikes and accessories for your character.
I honestly never, ever thought that a video game console would get an exercise bike peripheral, but there you go. It looks interesting, but I’m not sure it will be all that successful. Adding in a peripheral of that size is likely very expensive. You have to consider that you’ll only be using the exercise bike with one game. Chances are, it’ll end up just like a lot of real-world exercise bikes – holding up clothes you need to remember to wash or want to keep from getting wrinkled.
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Wonder if there are any helicopter games that work with this peripheral. Would be an interesting one!
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