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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Kotaku gives lots of details about The Conduit - and it needs polish, lots of polish

mike_intellivision on 16 April 2009

Some quick thoughts.

The lack of graphical polish is to be expected since HVS is still working on it. The check-point issue on Level 4 sounds to be the most legit concern.

Complaints about default controls on a highly customizable game or about FPS being repetitive are a bit bogus.

Control transitioning probably is not even an issue as I doubt anyone who also has a PS3 or Xbox 360 will be playing this as their first FPS on the Wii.

Finally, I see that IGN was fairly upbeat in its assessment. Has anyone else done any previews/reports from this event. The only negative remarks that I have seen have come from Kotaku and CVG, both of which have anti-Wii reputations.

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Gamerace on 16 April 2009
thekitchensink said:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/972/972967p1.html

IGN said that it's "... a top-notch first-person shooter, and easily in the running for the system's best in the genre."

Actually that statement troubles me a lot, considering the best on the system now is a gimped version of CoDWaW that's not really much of a vote of confidence.   A FPS with as full a multiplayer mode as Conduit offers, should, crush CoDWaW unless it's lacking in other areas.

 



 

thekitchensink on 16 April 2009
Gamerace said:
thekitchensink said:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/972/972967p1.html

IGN said that it's "... a top-notch first-person shooter, and easily in the running for the system's best in the genre."

Actually that statement troubles me a lot, considering the best on the system now is a gimped version of CoDWaW that's not really much of a vote of confidence.   A FPS with as full a multiplayer mode as Conduit offers, should, crush CoDWaW unless it's lacking in other areas.

 

 

What about the 'top-notch' part of the statement?  They loved what they played.



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puffy on 16 April 2009
Gamerace said:
thekitchensink said:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/972/972967p1.html

IGN said that it's "... a top-notch first-person shooter, and easily in the running for the system's best in the genre."

Actually that statement troubles me a lot, considering the best on the system now is a gimped version of CoDWaW that's not really much of a vote of confidence.   A FPS with as full a multiplayer mode as Conduit offers, should, crush CoDWaW unless it's lacking in other areas.

 

 

 

I noticed that odd wording too.. Saying it's in the running to be the Wii's best FPS? Unless they're comparing it to Metroid Prime 3.. But otherwise.. 



 

kber81 on 16 April 2009

Game looks much worse than Conflict denied ops lol... why ppl get excited?



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--OkeyDokey-- on 16 April 2009
thekitchensink said:
Gamerace said:
thekitchensink said:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/972/972967p1.html

IGN said that it's "... a top-notch first-person shooter, and easily in the running for the system's best in the genre."

Actually that statement troubles me a lot, considering the best on the system now is a gimped version of CoDWaW that's not really much of a vote of confidence.   A FPS with as full a multiplayer mode as Conduit offers, should, crush CoDWaW unless it's lacking in other areas.

 

 What about the 'top-notch' part of the statement?  They loved what they played.

"Ultimately though, there's no denying Haze is shaping up to be something special. Free Radical has a long history of creating great shooters and it looks like Haze could even go one step further than the developer's previous titles.

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/814/814150p2.html



shakarak on 16 April 2009
kber81 said:

Game looks much worse than Conflict denied ops lol... why ppl get excited?

 

Because many wii owners unlike many Hd owners actually care about things other then graphics.



noname2200 on 16 April 2009
--OkeyDokey-- said:
thekitchensink said:

 What about the 'top-notch' part of the statement?  They loved what they played.

"Ultimately though, there's no denying Haze is shaping up to be something special. Free Radical has a long history of creating great shooters and it looks like Haze could even go one step further than the developer's previous titles.

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/814/814150p2.html

Ooh! Low blow!

 



Pyramid Head on 16 April 2009

i love how this turns into a hate fest because the conduit might not be anything more than soldier of fortune with motion controls and some puzzles

if its great, great, i'll prolly buy it

but its not like i refuse to believe it might not be any good, or that it might be mediocre, or that the magazines have wii bias

i watched the vid of it on the nintendo channel and was not too impressed. i hated the games producer going on like he knows how to make the perfect game for me. . .



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patjuan32 on 16 April 2009
NanakiXI said:
forest-spirit said:

I think the main concern of many HD gamers is that they are afraid to find out that wiimote controls beats the hell out of dual analog controls, and thus will never be able to enjoy their favorite 360/PS3 FPS again as they once did

 

 

I think I like my mouse and keyboard more than both. Unless someone can give me actual replicated guns thats  kicks like a real gun. Then we will be talking. :P

 

I think this may prove difficult with the mouse and keyboard. I do not know? Maybe you are just as quick with your mouse.



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