So in the Wii's current software drought, there's a little oasis of hope. A beacon of light in the otherwise barren landscape of 2011. Are you going to get it?
I can understand if the answer is 'no, I didn't like the last one', but the sequel looks to be far better than its mediocre predeccessor, so I'm going to give it a chance.
It's not just me either. ONM reviewed the game, and gave it a very good score of 87%, saying that 'High Voltage have turned a good game into a great one. At last, The Conduit delivers on all the promises it made, and many, many more'. The rest of the review was full of praise as well, saying that there was a myriad of new features, including:
Single Player
• Less hallways, more wide open areas, varying paths, and varied environments
• More variety of enemies. You can now shoot off different parts of an enemies armor.
• Story is going to be presented in a different way than the first games story.
• Enemy AI is improved. Enemies will behave differently according to what kind of weapon they are using.
• Atlantis will be used as a kind of hub. You will have a bit of a choice in what order you want to go through the levels.
• ASE will have more uses as a scanner and detective device. Think like Metroid Prime and Batman AA.
• All of the weapons from the first game will be back and they will have a new alternate fire mode.
• There is a sprint button now.
• There will be more "wow" moments.
• 4 Boss Battles
• Interactive and destructible objects including table flipping for cover
• weapon loadouts and suit upgrades are in single player as well
• Longer story mode
• Wii Motion+ is confirmed to be used for aiming purposes only
• Iron Sights are in
• Weapon Blueprints are hidden throughout levels that you can use to unlock weapons in multiplayer
• Uncapped FPS. It will change based on what is happening in the game.
• ASE Scans faster and only beeps when you are specifically looking for hidden stuff. Not in the middle of a fight.
• NPC's confirmed. As well as interactions with NPC's.
• Conduit's are not prevalent anymore.
• New alien races.
• Optional areas can be visited by finding conspiracy objects. These paths are similar to the islands in wind waker, not required but they will yield hidden goodies and rewards.
Multiplayer
• This game will support 4 player local split screen
• There will be a co-op invasion mode available both online and offline
• There will be customized classes with weapon load outs and suit upgrades
• You can customize your characters appearance using the same system used to create the varied single player enemies
• Maps will be returning from the first game
• Spawn glitch from the first game is fixed
• more protection against hackers
• You can now revive team mates
• Lock on is back but its not as bad from what we've seen
• There will be a currency system to unlock new upgrades.
• weapon caches are gone.
• There is a rival system
• There is no splitscreen online
• Respawn time depends on the game mode
• 15 maps. Looking to add more by release.
• All old weapons returned. 6-7 new weapons
• 30 suit upgrades+. Able to choose 4 of these at a time. (may change)
• 14 unique game modes, each with modifiers.
• waiting time between matches said to be dropped down to around 30 seconds to a minute
• They will be supporting the game with patches after release. A system for dlc is in place, but they haven't said they will be supporting it with dlc yet.
• Classic Controller/Classic Controller Pro will be supported. This control set up will not be able to use lock on.
• There will be a hardcore mode with no lock on or radar. All competetive multiplayer modes can be played with this as far as we know.
• Kick system is in. Players can vote to kick people out of the lobby between games.
• Voting in public multiplayer is back but different. You are now given 2 modes and maps, and have to vote between those. In the next lobby vote you will be given two other options different from the options you had in the previous match. This makes it impossible for people to spam explosives and streets in other words.
• Skins will be unlocked in the online store. There are 7 a the moment. May or may not change.
The sheer possibilty of having a patched game is a great one, and I'm definitely going to give it a chance. Are you?
(Thanks to GameFAQS for the above information)
