When it comes to Conduit 2, High Voltage Software's sequel to their debut Wii first-person shooter from 2009, Nintendo Life knows a couple of things: that stuff is going to blow up and it will feature a whole host of new multiplayer bells and whistles, including a new co-operative mode.
Inquisitive minds that they are, they got a few queries in with Conduit 2 producer Josh Olson to find out more about the additions to multiplayer, Agent Ford's expanded arsenal, whether MotionPlus is in the cards and more.
GamerFitNation: irst person shooters were the craze in the beginning of this current console generation. Through the years however, we have seen how this genre has culminated into a popular genre with games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and other classics like the Halo franchise. When you look at the amount of first person shooter titles available now it seems that every system has a flagship first person title. Sony had Resistance/Killzone, Xbox has Halo, and Nintendo whether you like it or not had The Conduit.
Definitely, Halo and COD are so overrated.. and over saturated the 360 when we should have had quality titles from Rare. MS shafted us bad.
PS4 and PC for me next gen.
are you kidding me? how is Halo overrated? it deserves every bit of praise it receives, because the games are so well made and highly polished with excellent multiplayer and amazing single player campaigns.
Yeah, certain games that refuse to stand out will hopefully see their downfall. There are still plenty of good FPS games/series though. Far Cry 3 and Borderlands 2 being fairly recent examples. Both great games, but not standard FPS mediocre/bad games.
I would include Crysis, but that series is steadily getting worse, focusing far more on graphics and selling their engine than atmosphere, gameplay and story.
The first Bioshock game is still one of the best games of the generation. Bioshock 2 was still good, but just not as good. Infinite looks like it will be great, and really excited about it.
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I hope the simple point and shoot variety is on the downfall, but the type like Deus Ex I hope we see more of.
Deus Ex was great, I'm enjoying Dishonored at the moment too. A lot can be done with first person games (remember Mirror's Edge!), they don't all have to feature running and gunning everything that moves.
"It might be people’s desires and preferences that might be declining but the quality of FPS’s are getting better as the generation pans out. Hopefully Bioshock Infinite will change all of that"
I know you didn't mean it like that but the way that was phrased made it sound like you wanted Bioshock Infinite to STOP the FPS genres increase in quality.
Did motion controls mix with first-person shooters? Here, we discuss the Wii's rocky history with FPS.
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motionplus as an optional would be good.
The situation with The Grinder does really weird. Their other titles are still exclusive and they completely changed the game for the PS3/360/(PC?) so what was the point? They could have made it a separate game... might be to increase publisher interest.
sounds awesome,
they're adding cop-op, more online options, and its pulling some inspirations from metroid prime for single player, thats always a plus.
Really good so far, now they should add Classic, GameCube & USB keyboard controller support, to keep the game fresh.
"Team Invasion mode allows up to four players (either online or locally via splitscreen)"
Local splitscreen of four players, now that's what I'm talking about. Personally would like for them to utilize Classic Controller or at least Classic Controller Pro (since it's now being shipped out), but from what I've read in an interview they stated that the Wiimote utilizes the guns the best. Either way this game is shaping up quite nicely and probably going to get it. I still need to go back and get the first one sometime this summer.
Someone needs to give HVS the Turok license so they can remake Turok the right way, by keeping Turok in the old time-traveling warrior story and Wii controls.