off-TV play

I'll allow it.

that's... that's kinda depressing that from the same company that Made ZombiU that we couldn't have gotten the gamepad as a faux-smart device. the potential for particularly frantic gameplay involving trying to operate a phone and drive in a high speed chase at the same time really had me hopeful that this would be the port to wait for...

I think what they meant to say was:

"After many tries, they determined that the interactive map was the " Easiest Option.

I know people are disappointed about the lazy use of the gamepad. Some of that is deserved since map/off-screen play is hardly inspired, but hopefully people don't get too upset.


Having put a lot of time into off-screen play for other games when sharing the TV with family members I do value that feature. And if they were committed to supporting off-screen play then they can't add mandatory gamepad features since the second screen won't always be available. So while an interactive map is lazy, I'm not up in arms about the decision.


That said, having a game with middling reviews arrive months late on Wii U with no significant features added but a higher price (at this point in time) than on competing platforms is a tough sell. Uncertainty about access to DLC makes things worse, although hopefully that could be included on-disc.

Off-Screen play should just be in every WiiU game.  That's like saying displaying graphics on the TV is a revolutionary use of the TV.

For the time and how in this game the neat uses for the Gamepad pretty much wrote themselves this is a lazy cop out that will not justify the price premium for this version.