I had been very interested by this game from the first screens and concepts I saw. As my user name states, I LOVE NINTENDO! I had been begging and pleading for an FPS on the Wii I could be proud of...this is that FPS.

To start, I did pre-order via GameStop, so before I went in head first, I went into the promotion code menu and put in the codes in the art book for the ASE (all seeing eye) skin and online trust agent skin. On a side note, I was a tad angry when I found while customizing my online character model’s look, I couldn’t change the color of his tie to match that of my boy agent 47 from the Hitman series. Oh well. That’s done and over, now time to submerge myself. One of the best things in this game, I think at least, is the ability to change settings on the fly, and see an immediate difference in the game. My room isn’t that big, and I am very picky about the controls of the shooters I play. Speaking of the controls, almost flawless in my opinion. There is, of course, the occasional loss of motion when you try to move too fast, but that’s the “beauty” if you will, of motion controls. Didn’t really bother me that much. The button layout fits well with the wiimote, needing little effort to access the command you need. Using the “–“ button to reload was a bit odd at first, but I got used to it.

Probably my favorite thing about this game were the wide array of weapons to choose from. Human weapons like the good ol’ MP5 and the always fun to wield SPAS12 military shotgun, the drudge (attacking alien race) weapons like, my favorite, the strike rifle and the shrieker, and the trust weapons like the deatomizer, just to name a few. To go along with the weapons are your usual array of grenades: flash bang, frag, radiation? Yes, that’s right, radiation grenades. This incredibly helpful weapon, will turn your enemy into a smoldering pile of ash in about 5 seconds. It’s great. How you use the weapons in this game is another big thing for me. This game has some of the most intense gun action I’ve seen in a while. If you thought Metroid Prime 3 was intense, you aint seen nothing yet sister. The enemies are smart to boot. Trust agents and drudge alike will hide behind cover and wait for the opportune moment to strike, and if you aren’t careful, you’re toast.

Graphics. This game puts even Super Mario Galaxy and Prime 3 to shame in the graphics department. There are some glitches here and there, like I was clearing out a drudge hive under the library of congress, and a little midget alien asshole was glitched into the stairs and wouldn’t let me pass. I ended up wasting some of my health dropping some grenades on this guy. I was very impressed from the start how this game looked. It really does push the Wii to it’s graphical limits. Surprisingly, however, despite the few glitches here and there, the game never causes the system to lag, which says to me building a new engine from the ground up really showed in the final product.

The multiplayer is where this game really shines. I did, of course, run into a few retards that kept insisting on using the saaaaame damn map eeeevery time, and ALWAYS USING FUCKING ROCKETS! I HATE ROCKETS! TRY USING ACTUALL GUNS! AT LEAST I’LL RESPECT YOU MORE IF YOU KILL ME WITH THE SCAR!

The only issue I really have with this game is the voice acting. The commands given to you by whoever is leading you on a mission, can be annoying as hell sometimes. That’s really only the bad thing about this game.

When I first got home from work yesterday, yesterday being Thursday June 25, I needed to eat first, seeing as I had not eaten all damn day. So I did that, grabbed the pair of mountain dew 2 liters from the fridge, sat down in front of my tv at about 9:25pm. It wasn’t unill 4:30am that I grew tired and eventually passed out in my chair. THIS GAME IS A MUST OWN FOR WII OWNERS, EVEN IF YOU ARE JUST GOING TO DO MULTIPLAYER. This game was well worth the wait, and give me very high hopes and expectations for High Voltage Software’s next 2 Wii titles in The Grinder and Gladiator A.D.

Go buy this game people. Look for me on line in a black and green trust agent suit. My handle is, of course, 47. GAME ON!!!!!

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...your resident NintendoJuNkEe...

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"i hope mickey dies. i do, i hope he god damn dies. i hope he gets ahold of some tainted cheese....and dies lonley and forgoten in the dumpster of a soiled parking lot of a resturant in a bad neighborhood...with his hand in goofy's pants."

-george carlin 1937-2008 :(

TIME FOR THE KIRBY DANCE!!!!!!!

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please excuse any spelling errors i have made in this post. i blame WoW because WoW is lame. yes i said it, WoW is lame!

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