[QUOTE="skrat_01"]Pretty much echos what I have been repeating after reading about the game a while back. There is nothing about the design that stands out. Judging a Wii game purely off its technical limits is simply stupid.... and the FPS genre is already saturated with average design. You need to stand out, and do something unique, other than 'that Wii shooter with visuals that are great for the system, but poor compared to the others'. yoshi_64
I'm cautiously optimistic that there's something we've yet to see about the game that will stand out, or even that the game may have a pretty good story and entertaining one to hold your interest, as well as a solid and fun online multiplayer experience (though that will be something that can be hard to do with Nintendo's online setup... and I don't mean the ease of swapping friend codes or giving you a personal channel like MK Wii does, I mean the whole sha-bang like in other shooters. Ranking systems, leaderboards, mic use (that isn't going to be limited to friends, but so far I've not heard otherwise and I'm sure knowing Nintendo's strict policy, the Wii speak mic I own will not be used in non-friendly games I bet...) as well as other systems like experience leveling up, customization options, and fun gameplay modes out the standard. Well what I mean is core design. Because right now it seems to be following the shooter design template, that has become a tired template since the 90s, exept well... with motion controls.Its a pity, especially from a design perspective as there is so much that could be done, and so differently on the platform - focusing on technical aspects of the system, and utilising a dull design seems to be a horrible opposite of what should be done. And much of the ideas really are simply those seen essentially as standard in other shooters.
Now of course the Wii in the shooter genre is know here near the other platforms, and yes its standards are lower - when put alongside the likes of something that is a standard on other platform - like lets say HL2 or COD4 - so its an unfair comparison, and this is somewhat bridging a small portion of a huge gap, but this is missing the point entirely of the Wii's strength.
Something, that stands out against the pack, that works to the systems strengths - that are so unique, no other system can emulate them.
There is such a huge potential for shooters on the Wii platform, but developers keep abiding by age old shooter templates, that are still at the fore front of the genres 'recent celebrated titles'.
Different design is needed, as well as something with distinct personality.
There should be less 'look at how we are catching up to what others can do' and more 'look how unique this is, that cannot be done anywhere else'.
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