BY LISA BRENNER >LA.COM

Nintendo Wii, do you take Guitar Hero III to be your lawfully wedded game mate?  To rock and to roll?  To flail and to shred?  Out of sync and in time?  With star power and booing?  As long as your batteries live?  Wii do. 

Tomorrow will be a day of great progress and technological advancement for our society, as Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock is unleashed on the public, and most notably, compatible for the first time with the Nintendo Wii.  And when I say compatible, I mean there is a freaking Wii controller embedding in the guitar and it will blow your mind. 

LA.com had pleasure to preview and play this landmark achievement (we chose to test out Heart’s Barracuda over the much publicized Sex Pistols re-record of Anarchy in the UK) during last week’s E For All video game convention downtown.  

Perrin Kaplan, VP of Marketing for Nintendo, invited a small group of local, mostly female writers, to an intimate brunch of made-to-order omelettes and handheld DS’s.  The nature of the gathering was to further connect with a massive and growing community of people, who until recently, were not considered a core gaming audience.  Moms and chicks, specifically. 

Traditionally, parents don’t play with the gaming consoles they buy for their kids.  Not the Wii.  Unless your heart is made of twigs and you hate fun, Wii is for you too. 

It’s like candy for everybody.  Candy that’s good for you.  Like, if candy was made out of vitamins and protein but tasted like gumdrops and made you charming and more interesting.  And intentional or not, there is something remarkably female friendly about the Wii, yet it is totally sexy and overwhelmingly popular with the man-folk too.  It’s the most fun you can have without a moonbounce.

Aside from the active benefits of Wii Fit and Wii Sports, and the mental training of Brain Age and Brain Age 2, there are also some outstanding musical offerings from Nintendo arsenal of joy, like Jam Session (DS), Guitar Chords (DS), Boogie (Wii/DS), Guitar Hero III (Wii), the brand new Rhythm and Notes (DS) and Dance Dance Revolution (Wii) slated for release on Nov 6. 

As a proud Wii ambassador you can expect to hear much about my future Wii related antics, shenanigans, musical triumphs, record breakings and lamp breakings (should the controller get away from me.)

Photos by Lisa Brenner, Julie Wolfson