The team at Rebellion (and Reef, who handled the Wii version) have crafted a tactical combat game that hits the target so often that slight wavering every now and again can easily be overlooked. It would be easy to dismiss Rogue Trooper as the game where you play as a blue man with a talking gun, helmet and rucksack, but that blue man deserves a place in your Wii collection.
CheatCC says, "If you're looking for a good third-person shooter on the Wii, your options are fairly limited, so you might want to check out Quartz Zone Massacre because it really has some decent ideas in it. For everybody else, I'd suggest looking elsewhere or even just picking up a copy of Rogue Trooper for the PS2 or Xbox."
Nintendo Life writes: "Rogue Trooper stands out for two big reasons: it's one of very few decent third-person 3D action games on the Wii and it's a good quality game based upon a licensed property. Rebellion deserves credit for making a quality translation of this game for the Wii and it's nice to see a new independent face in Reef Publishing bringing it out. Having tackled one 2000 A.D. property here's hoping Rebellion gets a chance to try their hands at another in the future. Judge Dredd, anyone?"
It's been three years in the making, yet the Wii version of Rogue Trooper plays more like something that was cooked up in a matter of weeks. Maybe the original Xbox version was decent enough, but based purely on The Quartz Zone Massacre you have to wonder just what all the fuss was about.
Fair enough, shooting games on the Wii are always going to play second fiddle to the PS3/360 versions with their HD graphics and better control pad layouts, but there are the odd exceptions (Call of Duty W.A.W, Medal of Honor, etc). Rogue Trooper has poor graphics - well, the water effects are good - but that could have been forgiven if the gameplay was up to scratch.
It isn't.
I'm playing this game, and I can tell you that is one of the best looking and playable title on the Wii, not to mention that it uses the Gears of War hide-behind walls style and has the so acclaimed ability to make transparent the HUD and resize the bounding box like in The Conduit, so I don't know who made it first but HV can't claim to be the first ones to do it anymore, not that I'm ranking on THE Conduit but I have to give Props where deserved...
The only problem is that the developers haven't been able to find a publisher in the US so until then there's no chance of playing this state-side, unless imported or worse, definitely a underground/cult following title for the Wii that won't sale much but is really good and underrated, definitely a must have.