The Conduit preview: Technically marvellous but it's not really much fun

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amp316 said:

appolose said:

amp316 said:

appolose said:

amp316 said:
This preview has to be completely wrong.

Up until now I heard that this was going to be the greatest shooter of all time.

 

 Who's been saying that?  I will posit that the Wii owners who are excited for this game are more excited that it's the first of it's kind, not the best (at least, that's how it is for me):  A Wii exclusive built around the strengths of the console, specifically, the controls, and the graphical focus implies that High Voltage, as a 3rd party, is actually trying.  That's not something that can be said about many a 3rd party Wii game.

 

It's not the first shooter on the Wii that a third party actually tried.  I'm sick of hearing this.  There was a lot of effort put into Red Steel regardless of what several people might say.   

It didn't get very good reviews, and I've always heard it was a glitchy mess.  And, as Savior noted, that was a launch title years ago.  There really hasn't been anything in between.

 

 

What do the reviews of the Conduit say?  Nothing.  It hasn't been released yet.

What makes you think that it will be good at all?  Is it High Voltage's awesome track record?

Red Steel was hyped up similarly and this is why I used this comparison.  It also was three years ago, and my point was that the Conduit is not the first shooter that has had effort put into it like you stated.

I hope that the Conduit's a good game, but it looks cliched and boring to me. 

I mentioned the reviews of Red Steel to counter your claim that effort was exerted on the creation of the game.  So, yes, the reviews say nothing about The Conduit's efforts yet.

What I've seen so far looks promising, despite HV mediocre creations in the past (not that it looks like they were trying much with other games, though); not that it looks like it will be earth-shattering, just that, finally, I may get a good shooter on the Wii (shooters after that will have to differentiate themselves, though).

And in those three years after the questionably effort-exerted Red Steel, 3rd parties have all but forgotten about the Wii, at least in this area.  And it had "launch title" as it's hype more than anything else.  So I do not see why I shouldn't be at least somewhat excited about this game.

And, as many others on here say, most FPS are cliched and boring.  But the Wiimote will (at least for the first efforts) erase those problems.