Thank God, there's some sane people in a thread about The Conduit. Now I can let it out - this game looks like poo.

Not the graphics mind you, just the game itself looks lame. If it were on any other platform no one would give it a second glance.

Well I'm glad people agree with me. If someone can come by and explain why this game will be amazing, I'd love to hear it. Right now all I know is that it's made by a historically terrible developer, it has no publisher, and it's outdated by almost all standards.

I would greatly love to understand the hype because right now it drives me crazy.

OkeyDokey: This is why I love you. I'm so glad that there are people who are really looking at this game from a non-worship standpoint. There are so many hypocritical fanboys surrounding this game, it drives me insane!

So, what kind of graphics are you guys actually wanting to see on the Wii? This game seems to have everything: good texture details, good lightning effects, fricking good shadows, good models, etc.

I can't believe some people actually said the game looks horrible without seeing it in motion with your own two eyes. How about judging the game when you have it in your hands? By the way, people also preached the gameplay. They said the controls are even more customizable than any other FPS around, even on Xbox 360 and PS3. They even said the All-Seeing Eye brings an interesting puzzle element to the genre, meaning you don't always run-and-gun and actually think a bit (like in Half-Life and Half-Life 2).

I understand you can have an opinion, but when you compare it to other Wii games and 1st generation Xbox 360 titles, it's just amazing what they've managed to do in so little time (for High Voltage Software, having a reputation of being a ''shovelware'' developer in the first place).

 I believe the reasons are as follows:

1) After E3, many Wii owners have a feel that they have no line-up at all.

2) Wii fans want more 3rd party support. Thus they hype any game that look better than the average 3rd party game.

3) They follow the stream. IGN said lots of great things about it, people became hyped, suddenly it was the Wiis new 3rd party game. Therefore it just got more and more hype as time went on.

4) The earlier screenshots were touched up to make it look better. Now people only remember those screens, and believe that the current ones look just as well.

5) It doesn't star a dog as the main character.

And Shmup, look at Twilight Princess - a last generation Gamecube game. It looks just as good at this. Equal textures, but far better character designs.

How can you praise the game without seeing it in motion? Slight above average pictures doesn't mean it's unattackable.

It doesn't look horrible, but there's no chance in hell it will look as good as anything on the 360, PS3, or PC, so why bother getting excited about that? I didn't buy the Wii or its games for graphics, I bought it for the controls. Besides, if someone takes good screenshots it can do the game justice. Super Mario Galaxy made the game look far worse than it actually did, whereas Gears of War really showed the game off in its screenshots. Which brings us to the next paragraph.

Customizable controls? Fair enough, I'm sure the controls will be fine. But we've already had some nice shooters on the Wii so I don't see why this game excites people so much more than the last ones. As for the All-Seeing Eye, it sounds interesting, but if we're really saying that The Conduit bringing something similar to what we've seen four and a half years ago is exciting, color me unimpressed.

As for comparing it to other games on the Wii, yes, it's very impressive. I suppose if you lowered your standards to that level, then yes, it looks like it will be a very good game.

This thread must be bookmarked. Some people lost it. Yeah, this game look like shit. It can`t be compared to God of War 2. It looks worse than early Gamecube game. High Voltage is the worst developer in the world. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda.

Three out of those four things haven't been said anywhere in the thread.

IGN spoke of the game long before it became hyped by so many. As they barely had seen anything from the gameplay, just an graphics engine demo they couldn't say much about it but that it was coming and they were hoping it was good.

For you last comment. What?

Here's a short gameplay vid.: http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14248157/the-conduit/videos/raptorignne.html

GoNintendo had a much-better-written article that went into great detail about the stuff they're doing with motion-sensing that couldn't be done on another system.

 "It can`t be compared to God of War 2."

Sure it can. I think it looks far better than GoW 2. Where did we say that though?

"Yeah, this game look like shit"

We said it looked slightly above average. People say it looks like SMG, but it doesn't.

"It looks worse than early Gamecube game."

I'm the only one who took in the Gamecube, and I used the (maybe) best looking GC game for the comparison. So nobody said this by any means.

 "High Voltage is the worst developer in the world"

No-one said this. We just said that they weren't Rockstar, Activsion or EA in quality.

"Some people lost it"

I totally agree.