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Wii shooter to break casual stereotype.

High Voltage plans to release ambitious Wii game The Conduit in early 2009.

The shooter still has no publisher, mind you, but continues with similar bold claims to those made earlier in the year when we were told most Wii games "look like crap".

"Too many Wii owners have been told that the Wii is a casual platform with no room for serious games or top-tier graphics," said Eric Nofsinger, creative chief at High Voltage.

"With The Conduit, we intend to prove that theory wrong by providing gamers with the kind of title they imagined back when the platform was first announced."

As such, The Conduit will boast usual first-person shooter features such as fancy graphics and online multiplayer, as well as a control system designed specifically for the Wii.

The story will be mature and based around government conspiracies in the aftermath of an alien attack on Washington. You just have to find out the truth. If you can handle it, unlike Tom Cruise.

We hope High Voltage can put its money where its mouth is.

Keep an eye on the official website for more details.

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- Release date 9/07/2009
- Publisher SEGA Europe
- Developer High Voltage Software
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Der_tolle_Emil #1 4 years ago

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Bold claims - especially looking at their past games. Good luck to them.
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Raya #2 4 years ago

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Still has no publisher sounds like nobodies interested in it. High Voltage are actually funding it themselves at present so that a publisher doesn't start dictating the games content. So the 'still' is not the best of phrasing
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bushwod #3 4 years ago

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To be far to them, the tech demo video they released was very impressive:
[link url=http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off& client=safari&rls=en&q=Quantum%203%20engine&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa =N&tab=iv#
]http://vi deo.google.com/videosearch?hl=e...[/link]

Even if the games naff the wii could do with a really good engine.
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hoster #4 4 years ago

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I remember high Voltage: they made(converted) TempestX on the Playstation. quite enjoyed that, more so than the versions of tempest currently on xbla anyway
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miiiguel #5 4 years ago

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At first I thought it would be some sort of Mass Effect spin-off.
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Bluetribe #6 4 years ago

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It has very good graphics for a 3rd party Wii game, but it looks like generic FPS fare. And I don't think the gameplay will be outstanding either judging by their mediocre list of games and ports on the Wiki entry. Still, I think this might set off another company to create an innovative, original and immersive FPS with at least the same quality of graphics. Free Radical Design comes to mind, although their latest effort isn't a good example.
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Triggerhappytel #7 4 years ago

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That's a nice graphics, lighting and physics engine they have there, although the lack of a publisher and the element of arrogance on display is a little disconcerting. Definitely a wait and see.
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J.C #8 4 years ago

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Doom 3 and riddick, did fancy lighting and normal mapping on the xbox years ago. technically the wii is a joke.
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lemonfist #9 4 years ago

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It's a 'serious' game like this that looks kind of crap.

I'll take them wacky casual games any day.
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ekko #10 4 years ago

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Sigh, what completely dreary story.
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YourMessageHere #11 4 years ago

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"providing gamers with the kind of title they imagined back when the platform was first announced."

No, the 428 party game anthologies already out there do that just fine. A serious game, especially one with 'top-tier graphics', is far from what anyone with half a brain expects or has ever expected from the Wii.
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