Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure First Impressions

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Fast forward three months and Capcom was understandably keen for us to see the game in an environment more suited to the game's trial-and-error requirements. Armed with a near-complete build, we had had a chance to take our time over four of the game's early sections, which left us in no doubt that Capcom has a title of immense quality - and happy to find a game that uses the Wii controllers in new and interesting ways.

To link together Slithers. 10/10 says John!

As the name of the game adequately spells out, the two characters at the heart of the adventure are Zack and Wiki - the former being yet another of gaming's wannabe pirates (someone call Ron Gilbert), and the latter being his pet monkey (look behind you!). And, brace yourself, they're on a quest to get hold of Barbaros' treasure - Barbaros just so happening to be a dead pirate that you need to resurrect in order to get hold of said riches. Piece by piece, as you discover various parts of his body, more treasure becomes available to you and the story progresses in semi-linear fashion.

From what we saw, the game is essentially a third-person action-adventure with a difference - innovative and unique use of the Wii remote and Nunchuk. Broken down into a series of self-contained little quests, you have several available to you at any one time via the archetypal mission-selection map. Within each of these are a sequence of missions which collectively contribute to your overarching goal of finding more body parts - but as contrasting as the scenarios are on the surface, there's a common theme within each: to manipulate the environment any which way you can to get somewhere seemingly inaccessible.

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