The Conduit has received so much attention for the dazzling graphics it's managed to coax out of the Wii that you almost forget there's a game lurking somewhere in there, tucked away behind the bloom and the bump-mapping. But there is a game, and not a bad one by the looks of it, if an hour or two with both single- and multiplayer is anything to go by.
There’s a consensus about Splatoon 1 that cannot be disputed: motion controls are the way to play. The Wii U Gamepad had its many problems on the system as a whole, but along with the way in which the touch screen was implemented in the first game like I mentioned in my last piece, using the Gamepad’s gyroscope was deemed a superior way to play compared to traditional joystick control.
Rustyshell.com: The Conduit strived to be the quality FPS experience Wii owners were missing out on, with quality graphics and a robust online multiplayer component.
Hardcore Gamer: The Conduit was an interesting first-person shooter that sneaked its way onto the Wii amid a deluge of shovelware and "family" games.
The more i see this title the less i think it's really going to be decent and thusly it will just keep hurting FPS on the wii.
This review had a lot of well thought out "choice" words used to "not" show the game to be a generic fps, which I am afraid this game looks like.
Pretty positive stuff. People need to remember how poor most shooters on Wii have been and this is aiming, purely imo, to give Wii owners the first full package they've hjad for FPS on the console-much like Halo offered for the first Xbox.
It doesn't have to look like Killzone2 or have the perks and levelling system of COD4-it just has to cover all the "vanilla" bases and aims to do that while also being prettier than most. The online at 6v6 should be about right for Wii Connect and most who've [played that have enjoyed it. The big test is one it already sewems to have passed for most previewers-and that's how will it do with the controls and they seem to be as good as they are customisable and should prove the best reason to get this game.
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I have yet to hear many negative words from people who have actually played this game. The anti wii trolls can scream generic all they want because it's apparently all they can say to put down this title.
I'll say i'm one person excited to pick it up. I got my preorder and i'm gonna get the bad asss limited edition. All i know is when i first saw the wii i felt it was best suited for FPS games and Metroid Prime 3 and COD W@W justified that in my mind. I think all the trolls (as their numbers dwindle) are most threatened by the superior controls then anything else in this title. After the conduit it might be possible to call dual analog controls generic by comparison.