Wing Island
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Product Summary
Brand: KonamiRelease Date: 2007-03-20
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Konami
Product features:
- Family friendly game for all ages, featuring a cast of colorful characters
- Use the unique controls of the Wii Remote to soar through the skies
- Engage in over 20 missions from racing and crop dusting, to fire fighting and stopping thieves from stealing treasure
- Earn money to unlock and upgrade a variety of new planes
- Compete against a friend in a collection of 2-player mini games
Video Game Reviews of Wing Island
Customer Review: Fun Game That Could Have Been Better
Summary: 4 Stars
Despite the fact that this game has a few areas that could have been improved, it is still a fun game. The pros of this game include: simple controls, average graphics, and enough challenge to keep you playing. The cons include: some difficult maneuvers, several tedious missions to beat, a bit of unrealism, and a lack of variety.
The game play, challenge, and graphics are three of the enjoyable aspects of this game. The basic controls are easy: tilt the Wii remote up to go up, down to go down, etc. The graphics, although not entirely realistic are still believable considering that the game is more on the "cartoony" side. There are three different islands that can be played as you progress through the game. The islands have caves to fly through, rock arches to fly under, towns to fly over, and many other features. There are about eight missions per island in story mode. You have to beat the first four to get the next four plus a new island to explore. The three game modes you can play are: story mode (play missions), free play (where you can explore the islands), and competition mode (where you can play different aerial mini-games against other players). It is a completely non-violent game.
However, there are four areas that could have been better. Several formation changes are difficult to do when you are dodging houses, walls, and the like. They don't sound hard (thrust the Wii remote forward to signal a straight formation) but the game doesn't always do what you want it to do. There are a few missions that are challenging, because of a time limit, and they require multiple attempts to beat. There is also a bit of inconsistency in the way the game rewards you for completing missions. On some missions it seems that no matter what you do, you don't earn any reward even if you complete them perfectly and on other missions you barely complete them and get a great reward. The game is also a bit unrealistic because you always start in the air and can never takeoff or land anywhere because there are no airports. In terms of variety of planes, there is not quite enough. There are only six planes that you can fly and there are no jets; there are only propeller planes and none of them are real airplanes. You start with two planes, a single-engine biplane and a double-engine biplane. You can "buy" a faster single-engine biplane, a tri-engine biplane, a biplane that sort of looks like a jet, and another biplane that also looks like a jet. But as someone who plays a lot of Flight Simulator, maybe I'm just spoiled.
All in all, I still found this game worth the rental fee even with its cons and would recommend this game to anyone who wouldn't mind only being able to fly propeller planes and would also like a relatively easy game compared with other airplane games. Some people might not like it because there is a lack of aircraft to choose from and you are not able to takeoff or land. In addition, I completed all of the game missions and unlocked/bought all the planes in only four hours of game play. It may be best to rent the game first to see if you enjoy it enough to buy it.
Wing Island
Description of Wing Island
In Wing Island you'll get to save the family aviation business. Become a wide-eyed teenager with the skill to fly -- and soar around Shell Island taking on jobs to keep the business flying. From dusting crops to more daring missions like aerial fire fighting, you'll use the Wii Remote to perform aerial acrobatics and learn to fly in formation, controlling a group of five planes at once.Kids & Family Games
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