I got my FarCry...when do I get to have my Vengeance?
The controls are pretty good...nothing amazing as those who want to find something to make up for the graphics will tell you, but functional and certainly better than this game's slightly older brother Red Steel. They are fully adjustable so you can customize the movements of the Wii-mote to fit your preference.
The single player campaign is easy, even on hard. That being said there are sections when you will become overwhelmed by mobs of graphically and mentally inferior "enemies" that will test your ability to rapidly move your Wii-mote from one head (or is it a block of ice?) to the other.
The weapons are your standard issue FPS foder only they look like they were snatched straight from the N64's Perfect Dark.
Driving vehicles is fun, except the framerate bounces in and out of playable as foliage and "enemies" bounce in and out of the quite small field of view.
For those of you thinking about getting this game for the multiplayer, skip it and enjoy a friendly game of bloody knuckles as a similar experience that won't cost $50. The multiplayer is horrendous. Absolutely the worst I have ever played. It has a maximum two players at a time and if one player headshots or knifes the other player, that player becomes the predator. Basically an unbeatable badass who runs around like a wildcat slashing the crap out of the other player until the kill count runs out or the other player accidentaly kills him while speratically shooting in all directions.
Now, for a detailed look at the graphical inadequacies:
First off, the cutscenes. They aren't worse than the gameplay, in fact in many ways they look good. It's just there's this "flicker" that happens the whole damn time that never goes away. The character models in the cutscenes are made of one polygon each and the colors in the entire game but most evidentally in cutscenes are flat. Second, the lighting effects...if you want to call them that. I laughed out loud the first time I walked through the "shade" and looked on the ground. It looks like it was penciled in as an after thought. Going under foilage or into a house turns your entire visable parts the same shade and, apart from a few blotches of "light" that show on your arm here and there, nothing changes that gets you to believe you might possibly be walking through shade.
The water looks like it was doodled too. There are maybe two or three tones to it. The only plus to being underwater in this game is that it is the only place that looks like it's supposed to be as murky as it is.
The explosions are cheeply done and often stutter the framerate...even the little things like a barrel blowing up or grenade going off.
The draw distance, as I alluded to before with the driving, is really bad. You can actually see a circle around you where textures appear throughout the entire game.
The blood effects are pathetic. Do you remember the original Mortal Kombat for the SNES? Do you remember that big shower of blood that flung out of the characters when you hit 'em? Yeah? That looks better than this. No kidding.
Obviously, my overall recommendation is this: Don't buy it, don't rent it, don't wish it upon your worst enemy. If someone tries to give it to you for free that person is an #$^hole! This is the worst game I have played in a very, very long time. Avoid it like the plague!