@Gamerace - ah I forgot about Quantum of solace. Gotta check it.

Heh, you play FPS with your son? that's cool.

Local multiplayer is the difference between a buy and a rental to me.

When I bought my Wii, I got Red Steel. I bought it for the sole reason that was the "best" FPS the Wii had to offer at the time and the game itself (swordfighting) intrigued me. I got RE4 along with it, and although the latter had perfect controls, the former was original and had SO much potential control-wise.


HOWEVER, I never played multiplayer for it. It only had 2 players anyways, so I looked elsewhere for multiplayer. At least for The Conduit has what RS didn't and the graphics are great to boot. Plus, it has online!

So in my case,lack of local multiplayer isn't a problem. Plus,as The Grinder proves, HVS has enough knowledge with Wii architecture now that they can get local multiplayer. So when TC 2 comes out (if it ever does, in 2011 or something) that will have it.

Finally, HVS has worked way too hard and has buttered me up too much to not get my $49.99

What if the conduit turns out to be really awful with poor controls, bland environments, poor AI, few distinct enemies, and buggy/laggy online?

At this point, how bad would the game have to be for you to not buy it?

I'll be grabbing it... hopefully everyone else who's interested in it picks it up as well. I'm not so concerned about local multiplayer as no one else in my house will play that game anyway.

I never got the big deal about local multiplayer so I don't really understand this.

Local Multiplayer was huge when broadband wasn't readilly available.

That's not the case anymore.

You took the example of Halo.
Well don't the majority of Halo3 MP games happen online these days ?( isn't it the most played online game on Live every week ?).
Not like it is that hard to get an online game going with buddies these days, and what's the difference between that and a LAN game ???

The sequel will have splitscreen. Good enough for me.

yeah no local multiplayer sucks, but i still think that it will sell 80,000-100,000 the first week

Of course multiplayer attracks many gamers, and I hope this game can shift more than 100 copies in the first weeek.

It's funny that you mention red steel as having local multiplayer because the sequel doesn't have this :)

The makers of red steel are really smart you know... Red steel got big sales because it was a launch title and I think red steel 2 will get some decent sales because it comes bundled with Wiimotion+ and it will be one of the few games that uses it 100% at the time it's released.

The sales of the conduit will probably reach over 1 million, but I wouldn't expect anything more from it. 1 million will probably be a huge succes for High Voltage. The grinder will also sell atleast 1 million copies imo. Life time sales of course.