I've already set the bar low for this game so 80+/100 scores are generally fine with me since 80+ is a good enough game.

agree with hvs. :)

Shaders are a direct X term. Nintendo uses TEVs, OpenGL, to do the same thing. In laymans terms, the Wii can do shaders.

The Conduit is going to suck for a 2009 FPS. 10 years ago this game would probably get raving reviews. The Conduit while the first game of their Q3 engine is a weaker Q3 game and pretty much a generic shooter. Anyone who assumes otherwise is going to be in for a dissapoinment. Anyone who will judge an entire company based on one game isn't much of a gamer. Out of the companies current big game line up I personally only find The Grinder of any interest.

The Conduit is competing against KZ2, Gear of War, Halo, CoD..... The Grinder has to only compete against L4d2. L4D2 isn't even on the Wii. The market only has one other person in it. The Grinder will do well.

PS. I find that big name companies like Capcom have little interest in pushing system specs unless they put there AAA team on it. It's also easy to blame someone else for lack of budget, effort, creativity, smarts.

HVS has a right to claim fame for it's effort with the Wii and to call out other companies. It doesn't matter that they make Dora. That doesn't determine talent that just shows company needs money. Needing money != Talent.

that's why I mentioned that 80+ is already impressive enough for me lol, I mainly want to play it for the controls to confirm some theories I've had about FPS controls on Wii being second to PC.

Conduit looks good with character models but the environments textures look so so.
Grinder looks just impressive on all visual levels and looks already better than Conduit.

Grinder looks so sweet

What The Conduit is competing with is FPS's on Wii.. Call of Duty: World at War is the only one out there that can do anything to The Conduit's sales and that would be basically nothing.

They set out to make a solid FPS experience for Wii and I think they've proven that the Wii can do more than what other games in the genre have done. They have never said: Our game is better than KZ2 and Halo 3, just the definitive Wii FPS. That's exactly what it'll be. I really don't see where the hate towards them is coming from, there seems to be a lot of word-twisting going on..

Its always the developers that are not trying hard enough just lok at what Nintendo has been able to do with the hardware with just LoZ:TP, which is just gcn arch. and what not.

So far, kind of disappointing reviews. 80 from Nintendo Power and 76 from the Official Nintendo Magazine UK. :\

Let's face it, Metroid will be the only best FPS game on the Wii.

*Sigh* A let down year for the Wii for me. No games I'll be getting this year except New Super Mario Wii.