was expecting 7.5 overall, not bad

God, he's a horrible writer.

But a good review, which is good.
Online sounds great, controls sound great, and single-player wont take TOO long which means I can get to the fragging!
:P

Can't wait to see you guys in the servers

I am buying this game ASAP.

Now let's hope it sells well so they will make a sequel. You know they will go all out for the sequel and address some of the issues of the original because they won't be worried about the risk of the game not selling.

I was expecting about an 8.5.

Guess I'm just a good guesser.

To put it in perspective:

The Conduit: 8.6
Medal of Honor Heroes 2: 8.4
Call of Duty World at War: 8
Call of Duty 3: 7.7
Medal of Honor Vanguard: 7
Red Steel: 6
Far Cry Vengeance: 4

So yea IGN considers this the best Wii FPS since Metroid Prime 3 is an "FPA"

Good review score. I can't wait to read more reviews.

For those that don't like the review, this is one person's opinion....

good review
cant wait till the 24

@nGen

yea, that is true, but the point was to make a great game for the Wii with amazing controls, something that the 360 or PS3 cant provide with just a dual-joystick configuration. They did it for the hardcore Wii owner who doesn't have a 360 or PS3, or just wants something really special to play on their Wii.

oh, and, I'll probably be picking this up, even though I own a PS3. After playing a little MHH2, I've been waiting for a game than not only had the good controls that game had, but was also built ground-up for the wii (as opposed to a psp port)

@BAMtendo192

I know. It's the difference between being on the Wii and being on the PS360. On the Wii, originality can get a free pass so long as the controls are phenomenal. On the HD system, with the sheer amount of FPS's, you have to be original. The controls are as good as they'll ever get with the set up.

Wednesday can't come soon enough!

"I was afraid that the game looked fairly generic and based on what Matt said, that seems to be the case."

Amazing that this generic game does things with the customizable control scheme no other fps on console or pc has been able to do.

Please tell me why haven't console or pc fps ever been able to do hud placement or key mapping in real time?

@tootiredtothink

Technically the key mapping isnt in real time.
Only the sensitivity options are.

And if you count the console in most PC FPS, then it is in real time.



Listen man, they were talking about the storyline alright?
Read the final notes and you'll see that.
Fighting Aliens in an FPS is far from new, you're going to have to accept that :/.

@celljean89

Yes but if the Conduit was made for the 360 or PS3, there would be other changes besides the controls. Graphics and online multiplayer would be a lot better.

I like how he says it's a good FPS for the Wii and won't rate it compared to FPS on HD consoles, but when it comes to Mario Galaxy Matt was more than happy to gloat about the graphics matching the 360.

Just an observation folks. Not twisting anyone's words or anything.

8.6 and Editors Choice!

Great review.

Nice!

If it's a good game then be happy. Not everygame can be Goldeneye or Halo. Look at Killzone 2 that still hasn't cracked a million in the US yet. As long as the keep using the same old alien stuff. Your going to get generic games.

Sounds good; will be picking it up day 1. I just hope that the lag issues they were having online are far and few inbetween. That could be a game killer.

@keyz

Sounds good. I'll be playing at a friend's place, someone set up a code thread already (unless there already is one).

Alright. This is about what I figured. I'll probably be picking up the game this weekend.

Good score. Looking forward to picking up the Special Edition soon.

Also, lol @ the comments made by the MS and Sony fanboys on those IGN comments. If an 8.6 is bad than that must mean Halo Wars sucked worse (it got an 8.4).

For those wondering, if you actually read the entire review instead of skipping to the scoring at the end, you would have read that the game looks very generic and there is little to none art direction for the game. Halo and The Conduit are similar games, but Halo has a very distinct art style to it that people really like, The Conduit needed a great art style, (something along the lines of Red Steel 2) in order to be a truly outstanding game in terms of visuals.

Good enough for me! I hope to pick it up later this week - if not, next week then. ^_^

eh. I've seen games that were far more generic than the conduit. I just played Farcry: Instincts for Xbox this afternoon and that falls moreso into the "generic" category IMO.

yeah I'm going to be sitting in front of gamestop when it opens and getting my reserved special edition. I even have all my personal affairs taken care of today so nothing will be bothering me when i get this tomorrow.

Pretty decent review I suppose, although I was expecting at least a 9 for the visuals. Art aside, there is hardly anything that looks as good on the system, and nothing as technically advanced. This beats out tons of HD games in terms of technology.

It was always going to be called 'generic', we can't escape that at this point. The problem I have is that every FPS on the Wii is compared to everything on other systems. HD systems are never compared to the PC (otherwise Crysis would gobble them up) so why here?

Note that this is the guy who keeps championing Mirrors Edge.

Another thing, the 'street' level that they keep showing had around 6 different enemy types alone. That is a lot more than most games.

@A-Zar

I play PC games. There is NO game that has the amount of customization found in The Conduit. Sure you can map controls around the keyboard and mouse buttons, but you can't set your bounding box, how high you can aim, how fast you turn, how to use motions as so on. Even then there is no PC game that allows you to do that in real-time, as well as being able to fully alter your HUD.