I have no nostalgia for the original game, but I can say making this into a run-of-the-mill modern military shooter did not do the remake any favours. The controls just seem impossible get comfortable with--and I don't have general disdain for motion controls, in fact I loved Metroid Prime Trilogy and Splatoon is the only console shooter I can even play online only because of its gyro aiming. But more so than that, they simply made a linear console shooter without understanding Wii's hardware. Games like this simply does not work on standard definition because aiming becomes unnecessarily difficult when in sub-HD. I can't see anything when everything looks like the same bloody pixel. The stealth sections become as painfully repetitive as the firefights, there is very little room for any kind of tactical maneuver (I mean, you don't even get a hand grenade), and most objectives are either boring or downright frustrating. Shows that once again, modern military shooters only really work if they can put so much budget into production value to distract the players that they aren't really getting anything novel.

Reviewed on Mar 17, 2023


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