The 10 best Wii games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 2,318 review scores of 1,048 Wii games; 629 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Super Mario Galaxy 2	Wii	2010	98.5
2	Super Mario Galaxy	Wii	2007	95.5
3	Donkey Kong Country Returns	Wii	2010	95
4	Ōkami	Wii	2008	94.2
5	World of Goo	Wii	2008	94
6	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword	Wii	2011	93.8
7	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	Wii	2006	93.5
8	Rayman Origins	Wii	2011	92
9	Rock Band 2	Wii	2008	92
10	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	Wii	2008	90.8

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

6 Wii games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
Airport Mania: First Flight	Wii	2010	90
Frobot	Wii	2010	90
Mix Superstar	Wii	2010	90
Need for Speed: The Run	Wii	2011	90
River City Ransom	Wii	2008	90
WWE 13	Wii	2012	90

How the ranking works

The scores are the ones magazines gave when the games came out, all converted to a 0–100 scale. Only one review per magazine counts for a game: the most recent.
A game's score is half the average, half the median of its magazine reviews. A title opens the game's page on uvlist.net; a score opens the report with every review behind it.
A game needs at least 3 magazine reviews to be ranked. With equal scores, the game with more reviews comes first.
Metacritic already sums up many reviews, so it is never mixed with the magazines: it is used only for games with fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score.
Each list shows every game with a score of 90 or more. Games with fewer than 3 reviews and no Metacritic score are shown apart: their score is promising, but rests on one or two opinions.

The lists are rebuilt each time reviews are added. To filter by genre, year, magazine or publisher, explore all the scores in the report.

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