Bring the popular RC hobby onto your television screen with MiniCopter: Adventure Flight on the Wii in the spring of 2008. Using the exclusive control features of the Wii, gamers have full control over their MiniCopter -- choose from the Wii Remote tilt, pointer controls or play with a Classic Controller! Engage in 42 missions in 7 different environments from a child's bedroom, hospital, hotel room and more! Use your air cannon and lift suction to discover hidden areas and coins. Outfit your helicopter with a variety of body kits and parts that can alter the performance of your heli and improve your scores in Mission Mode. And battle against your friend in a Race for the Rings Mode to see who's the best helicopter pilot!
There's a sea of content on Wii, and even in the flight genre there are games that will satisfy more than MiniCopter: Adventure Flight. The title is a bit misleading as well, since you get a mini helicopter (which is a neat idea), you do in fact fly, but there's no adventure to be found. Control works, and is actually very reliable, but the world is so shallow and unimpressive that there's no reason to play the game for more than a few minutes.
Presentation - 4.0
Graphics - 3.5
Sound - 3.0
Gameplay - 4.0
Lasting Appeal - 2.0
Overall -
Recently Valve's The Orange Box (whose cover people tolerated or hated) was split into three separate boxes. MTV Multiplayer takes a look at all three covers as well as a few stragglers in its ongoing series of shallowly judging games only by their boxes.
Siliconera got hold of Aksys' initial 2008 schedule for MiniCopter: Adventure Flight (Wii), Castle of Shikigami III (Wii), Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles (DS), and Super Dodgeball Brawlers (NDS).
Below is a trailer for Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles.
