Zavvi.co.uk have it on pre-order for £17.95

At that budget price you cannot argue at all, it will be £35 in shops, minimum. I pre-ordered it for July 10th release.

Iga_Bobovic said:

SteelAttack said:

Foolz said:

Very tempting, but beneath it I see Little King's STory for even cheaper!

Get that one instead.

You get it also

No. I don't even know what the hell is it about. I believe someone told me already, but I forgot.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Foolz said:

Thank God, I almost actually bought it!

 You mean LKS?! You do not have to hack your Wii, yours play PAL version naturally.

 I mean The Conduit. I was referring to the price hike making it nowhere near worth it.

Hyper a magazine I subscribe to which is pretty crap now just reviewed The Conduit. They're notoriously anti wii, and there were some brilliant moments.

"During my first hands on experience the controls suffered from the same flaws of pretty much every wii FPS - twitchy, inaccurate aiming and oversensitive turning when you pointed too far over to one side of the screen. with the exception of Metroid Prime 3, most wii FPS games have either been shoddy ports of HD games, or forgettable wii exclusives like Red Steel that have done nothing other than show people that the wii isn't really a great FPS platform."

"The developers have wisely decided to keep motion control to a minimum. Aside from using the wiimote to aim and steer, motion control is limited to thrusting the wiimote to perform a melee attack and swining the nunchuck to throw a grenade at the targeting reticle. The grenade mechanics are very good when you get calibration of the controls right.If you have the aim sensitivity too high, swining the 'chuck will inevitably see your grenade going askew at every tiny movement that registers in thepointer... The Conduit may not necessarily convince you that FPS games are at home on the wii, but High Voltage Games have done the best to make sure the mechanics work as well as possible."

"No matter how well you calibrate the controls, the player is still saddled with a bit of pointer lag that can take some getting used to."

Wait a minute, these are the same controls tha with tiny movement from the nucnhuck will make your grenades miss their target from changing your aim?

"In an effort to make the controls a little more user friendly, the developers have implemented a kind of soft lock-on mechanic. Locking onto an enemy doesn't necessarily set the targeting reticule in [sic] that enemy, but instead locks the camera to their movement, making it far easier to follow some of the faster moving enemies. It's a smart move, as following enemies (especially flying enemies) with the pointer is painful in the extreme."

So in reality your problem with che controls is that you suck at aiming?

"While The Conduit looks positively archaic when compared to most games on the PS3 or 360, it looks pretty good for an ambitious FPSon the wii."

I didn't hear them complaining about wii graphics when they were reviewing Metroid Prime or Super Mario Galaxy...

"The Conduit isn't going to set the world on fire, but it shoudl definitely appease those gamers who have been longing for a decent first-person shooter fro the wii. If anything, The Conduit is a game that is better than the system it is on - the vast majority of the problems with the game stem from the relative inaccuracy of the wiimote as a pointer ather than game issues."

Actually their main criticisms beyond the controls were the generic graphics. But seriously, how can you be bad at using the wii-remote? If they pick up a gun are they going to try and aim with the fucking hammer or cock or whatever you call it?

A measly one page review at that.

Previously they had done an editorial whinging about there being no really good wii games, and in the same issue gave Zack and Wiki a one column review.

Okay hijack over.

Looks like I missed a few reviews:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/conduit

Looking at that list, 6 big sites/mags give it the worst reviews. Two of those sites are Giantbomb and Gamespot though.  

5 big sites peg it in the 7/10 range.

7 big sites peg it above that. 

Most of the smaller sites are kinder to the game and have it generally above 7.