At last a gun to go with a shooting game.
Links Crossbow training is not a huge shooting game, but rather an introductory game for players to get the feel of the wii zapper. In this game you play as Link in the Twilight Princess game, where the levels are all based off the game. Your game play options are score attack, multiplayer or practice. Score attack is the central component of the game as there are nine levels with three different stages in each level. In these levels you get points for each target you hit and the more consecutive targets the more points you will receive. The points that you earn determine what medal you earn (bronze, silver, gold and platinum). In each of three stages you will be given a different game play to use. The first is known as target shooting as you are only controlling a cursor and have to shoot as many targets as possible, just like in point blank. The second stage is known as defender, where you are a stationary Link who must fend off as many enemies as possible. The last stage is known as Ranger where you control Link with the nunchuck and try to shoot as many enemies as possible. Multiplayer is where you and a different person compete against each other by having separate turns in trying to obtain the highest score and then by passing the zapper off to the next person to try to beat your opponent. Practice is where you play just one stage out of the nine levels, and receive a score for each stage.
LCT has a lot of great qualities. The most notably being that you will always feel challenged to beat your high score over and over again. Also the Ranger stages in each level are the most enjoyable as you do get to control Link and that it is not just another point and shoot level. The bad qualities for LCT are that it is too short and at times a bit too easy. I got all platinum medals in about five hours, which was a lot quicker than I expected. Also I do believe that Nintendo did fail on the multiplayer option as there is no joint option. I understand that they didn't put that in because there wouldn't have been two zappers, but that could have easily been fixed with another person using just the wii-mote and nunchuck without the gun. Overall the wii zapper bundled with LCT was pretty much what I was told it to be. Like every game it has its good points and its bad points, but as I am a passionate shooting fan I will forgive the bad qualities. For only $50 (AUS) it is actually a very good buy and you will have heaps of fun playing each stage over and over again to try and reach a higher score. The only thing that may keep you away from this game is the shape and style of the zapper. If you know that it will not suite your shooting needs then don't buy this game, but don't write off the zapper based on every review so far as they are quite negative to the zapper itself.