Protöthea sounds pretty weird, but that doesn’t make it a bad WiiWare-game or a less Wii-ish title. This YouTube Wii-gamer took some time to walk us through his first minutes with Protothea for the WiiWare Channel.

Today is WiiWare-day for American Wii-gamers! Ubisoft has released its WiiWare-title Protöthea, which is a top-down scrolling shooter with free movement that gives you complete control of a last-generation spaceship. Destroy the asteroid called Maqno 01 and finish with the plans of The Core! The second game is Toki Tori from Two Tribes, a puzzle/platform game packed with more than 70 colorful levels and items offering dozens of hours of puzzle play time. Both titles cost 1,000 Wii Points.

Our Toki Tori WiiWare review.

About three years ago Protöthea came out for the first time on PC. Now this Ubisoft-classic returns to Nintendo’s WiiWare in the form of a remake with about ten missions and full 3D-graphics. This top-down vertical-scrolling shooter doesn’t have a releasedate and Wii Points pricepoint yet, but we expect more information to come soon.

Source: BeNintendo

Today Ubisoft has released the first details of their new WiiWare-game Protöthea. This Action Shooter developed by Sabarasa & Digital Builders and should come out May 2008. The developers tuned the engine of the game since the first PC-version three years ago and they made the game full 3D.

Protöthea Key Features

Pick Up and Play
Protöthea takes full advantage of the Nintendo Wii Remote™ and Nunchuck giving players total control of their ship via an easy-to-play and extremely intuitive control scheme.

Graphical Prowess
The game takes place in a complete 3D world packed with graphically rich environments, non-stop action featuring explosions and cool special effects.

Enemy AI
Unlike traditional scrolling shooters where enemy paths and maneuvers were predictable, the enemy AI in Protöthea is dynamic and changes based on the player’s actions.
Complete Arsenal of Weapons
A wide range of eight different air-to-air weapons and two different air-to-ground bombs give players a variety of options at their fingertips as they can use any given weapon they’ve obtained at any given time; the slow-down special power gives the spaceship the ability to decelerate time and avoid enemy fire while rapidly moving and attacking enemies.

Storyline and Missions
Protöthea boasts four unique planets where players will battle through ten levels and two difficulty settings to destroy the plans of “The Core,” a faction that plans to use the minerals extracted from the Maqno asteroid to build an army of bio-machines with the objective to control the Free Planets Federation – yeah, totally evil, right?