Now that it's out (in Europe) we need a friendcode thread.
Since the game isn't terribly well known, it's an FPS with water guns and kids instead of space marines and chainsaws though the guns are still pretty much regular FPS fare and the water part doesn't change their behaviour a lot (the shots arc somewhat). It's got 2 player locally or 8 players online (sadly not both at the same time) plus bots (only offline I think). It's an arena FPS like Q3A so there's no regular singleplayer corridor stuff, just a bunch of missions that have specific goals (some just require an arena match of a certain type, others are stuff like using the rifle to stop enemies from attacking your teammates while they run to a safe spot or hitting targets scattered around the map) and are timed.
They really made it simple to control, the game uses a whole four buttons (shoot, jump, use item, zoom with the rifle) so you can easily play it with a gun shell for the Wiimote that allows the nunchuk (I've tried it with the Nerf Switch Shot which I bought yesterday, I'm not used to the weight yet) and the game has Zapper support (all that does is make the B button select menu options instead of cancel). If you're insane you can use the classic controller and play with dual analogs but I hope everybody here is sane enough to avoid that.
Damage values are very low, no idea if that's to be kid friendly or for some other reason. You have to empty half your ammo into an enemy to knock him out and ammo counts are pretty low (you get maybe 8-10 shots out of the rocket launcher before it's empty), since you only carry the weapon you have in your hand that means you can easily end up defenseless for a while. The weapons also don't feel terribly powerful but that's pretty much a given considering they're water guns. I don't know what the real difference between the grenade launcher and rocket launcher is, sure, the shots of the rocket launcher arc less but both are still arced, have some splash damage (doesn't seem very large though) and roughly the same damage, rate of fire and ammo count from what I can tell. Seems kinda redundant to have both weapons, they could probably have replaced the GL with a spray gun (flame thrower) or something.
Topic: Water Warfare (WiiWare) (Read 3918 times)
