Just to clarify on a term:
When a product can't deliver on the hype, it sucks. For example, "Order Up!" was a pretty good game. "Heavenly Sword" sucked. They both got around the same score on metacritic, the difference was hype.

Anyway, I think most of the sober here agree:

The Conduit will get an OK metacritic score, around 75-85.

The Conduit's hype, however, demands nothing less than 90+. Random pools of water, exploding barrels and other tired FPS cliches aren't going to earn glowing reviews anymore, and haven't since 1998.

HV is banking on success based upon the assumptions that Wii owners want to see "next gen" effects and visuals, and that by staging a little Blue Ocean strategy of their own within the Wii market (in that there is next to no competition for a hard core FPS on the platform), they will have a hit of their own.

I haven't been following their story too closely, as their PR sounds like a lot of lofty claims from a developer with little credibility, but it would seem to me that the best thing that could come out of a decent to moderately successful release, is to become a middleware provider for other third party developers.

Maybe they've already claimed this is not their goal, but unless they're planning on releasing a whole string of FPS games for the Wii, why else would they bother trying to push the limits of the Wii as a development platform?

Strange, I have the impression that you only have to make generic shooter #476 and gain raving reviews, while generic RPGs (on all platforms) get criticized for not being innovative.

I guess The Conduit should get raving reviews for being a generic shooter. Oh wait....it's on Wii....

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How was this not locked sooner ?