Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast

Nintendo hopes to keep its Wii audience happy with Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast, an alternative racing game that features monkeys (and other characters) flying around with barrel-shaped boosters. That sounds reasonably fun, especially when you consider that the monkeys are recognizable faces from the Donkey Kong Country games. Unfortunately, crucial mistakes leave this Barrel empty.

The game was originally conceived as a project for the Nintendo GameCube, to coincide with the Bongo controller, a peripheral that shipped with the Donkey Konga games and Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat. Due to changes in the market, the big N decided to shift it to the Wii, reconfiguring the controls for the remote and Nunchuk.