New screens from Wii FPS The Conduit

by Ross Miller { Jun 12th 2008 at 5:25PM }

Click to embiggen

For those who aren't busy sneaking around or being a ninja, Nintendo Wii Fanboy has manage to nab over a dozen exclusive pics from High Voltage's upcoming Wii first-person shooter The Conduit. The images do not fail to impress us – this is a pretty looking game, especially for the Wii. The Conduit, still currently without a publisher, is due out in Q1 2009.

Gallery: The Conduit

Tags: conduit, high-voltage, the-conduit

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

theturtle363 @ Jun 12th 2008 5:30PM

embiggen. I love that word. Embiggen

Markez (MKWii 4339-2878-5120) @ Jun 12th 2008 5:32PM

"A noble heart embiggens the smallest man" Thanks much, Jebediah Springfield.

Shignami @ Jun 12th 2008 5:39PM

Oh shi-

I just noticed that

DBuck_Eye @ Jun 12th 2008 8:11PM

Quite the cromulent usage of the word "embiggen," Markez. I applaud your grammar skills.

Nicholas Sulikowski @ Jun 12th 2008 10:11PM

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

t_m @ Jun 14th 2008 11:15AM

It doesn't embiggen though.. it just shows a mis-sized, pixelated mess. Sort out your galleries joystiq!

t_m @ Jun 14th 2008 11:17AM

It doesn't embiggen though.. it just shows a mis-sized, pixelated mess. Sort out your galleries joystiq!

treqie @ Jun 12th 2008 5:31PM

Looks alright. Let's just hope it plays more than alright.

Markez (MKWii 4339-2878-5120) @ Jun 12th 2008 5:31PM

The picture that tops the article is an eye-grabber, however looking at the rest of them my 'OoooOOOooh neato' feeling got luke warm, or perhaps, tepid?

Anyway, nice seeing some different FPS action coming to the Wii.

Lord Bowser @ Jun 14th 2008 8:03AM

Asinine!

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Jun 12th 2008 5:33PM

It's good to see a 3rd party game come to the Wii with good graphics. I popped in Red Steel a couple of weeks ago and was amazed at how bad 4 player looked. It seriously looked worse then 007:Goldeneye.

Kristof @ Jun 12th 2008 5:34PM

It's sad that the Wii graphics are equated with low quality when games like RE4 show otherwise (even on the GameCube). If only companies would put effort into their Wii games instead of trying to make a quick buck off of popularity.

Fernando Rocker @ Jun 12th 2008 5:35PM

They suffer from the Metroid Prime 3 syndrome. Remember this screenshots and this thread?

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/metroid-prime-3/313280/

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/22/new-metroid-prime-3-screenshots/

And Metroid Prime 3 is a very good looking game. We need to see some videos.

Fernando Rocker @ Jun 12th 2008 5:51PM

By the way:

What do you guys think about my Phil Harrison - Ralph Baer photoshop?

http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p236/fernando_rocker/?action=view¤t=PhilHarrisonBaer.jpg

=p

PojoMofo @ Jun 12th 2008 6:43PM

Yes, we have seen that one Fernando, in fact, I cant unsee it.

JerJerBinks @ Jun 12th 2008 11:06PM

In the immortal words of Fernando Rocker, The Conduit looks like a generic shooter.

Mr Khan @ Jun 13th 2008 12:47PM

Damn do i remember that fiasco

The things that were said

Although i agree, it looks generic. Technically astounding, but generic

samfish @ Jun 12th 2008 5:35PM

Sure does look pretty.

...too bad I have zero interest in shooters.

Shignami @ Jun 12th 2008 5:35PM

I don't think I've ever seen the veins in my own eyes before, I don't know where game devs keep getting that.

J @ Jun 12th 2008 6:00PM

If you get an eye exam, you will see them. It's kinda trippy.

Shignami @ Jun 12th 2008 6:37PM

Yes, but my optometrist doesn't fill me with bullets in order to make that happen, and it wasn't a near-death experience either.

Nigeria @ Jun 12th 2008 5:38PM

I'm not really interested in FPS games no more: I no longer have the desire to shoot loads into the faces of my friends and anonymous teens.

But it's nice for the guys who are into this sort of thing.

Co @ Jun 12th 2008 6:52PM

"I no longer have the desire to shoot loads into the faces of my friends and anonymous teens."

LMAO best comment today!

Tango Charlie @ Jun 12th 2008 5:39PM

Great graphics. Been looking for something new to play on the N64.

tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 12th 2008 5:50PM

Nah you gotta give it a little more credit than that. I for one will gladly dust my gamecube off for this!

Tango Charlie @ Jun 12th 2008 5:52PM

Two N64s duct-taped together?

Co @ Jun 12th 2008 6:53PM

funny how u guys are clowning a game that isn't due out until possibly as late as April 2009. We'll see how it's looking then.

tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 12th 2008 10:41PM

WOW that's coming from someone who bashed the last killzone 2 footage with his NDF friends which isn't due out until 09 as well.

Co @ Jun 13th 2008 11:35AM

Bashed Killzone 2 screens?? I said as impressive as this game LOOKS I do not like the dual analog FPS set up. Nice try kid.

joeyg @ Jun 12th 2008 5:41PM

generic at best....

Genius @ Jun 12th 2008 5:43PM

uhm, just wanted to bring up the fact that the last time High Voltage made a noteworthy game was... uh, yeah.

Nigeria @ Jun 12th 2008 5:57PM

Harvey Birdman was a work of genius.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 12th 2008 6:10PM

To give them some credit, they're pretty much only done licensed work and sports games. So, this could be their first break out title to truly shine.

But... we'll have to see how the final product turns out.

The Dom @ Jun 13th 2008 10:24AM

Yea and what did Bungie do before Halo?

Don't count this game out so quickly. Even if it is a "generic shooter" as people claim (Although they know nothing!) the wii is in dire need of a multiplayer FPS. I have high hopes for the game.

t_m @ Jun 14th 2008 11:20AM

Bungie did marathon and the myth series. Plus Oni and a few other games. Bungie were a very highly rated company before halo... and thats why people were so excited originally about halo (when it was a mac game).

jsn @ Jun 12th 2008 5:43PM

pretty? what? It looks 2-3 years old.

fred @ Jun 15th 2008 10:56AM

this is completely unrelated but you don't post at pharyngula do you?
It's just that jsn seems like a not-too-common screen name

SoxFan13 @ Jun 12th 2008 5:43PM

I will need to reserver judgement until I see it in person. I got totally suckered into buying Red Steel. Waste O' Money.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Jun 12th 2008 5:45PM

You and me both:(

Fernando Rocker @ Jun 12th 2008 5:46PM

Red Steel sucks, mainly because the controls. It was the first attempt for a FPS on Wii.

The biggest mistake was to make the bounding box almost of the entire size of the screen.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 12th 2008 6:11PM

It looks like it has potential. But, so did Red Steel.

I'm awaiting some hands-on impresssions and reviews to see if this game can deliver on its potential.

Co @ Jun 12th 2008 6:55PM

Holy crap if one more person likens this game to Red Steel I swear to god.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 12th 2008 7:20PM

I think it's only a fair comparison, Co.

Not only are they both first-person games, but both promised a lot for the Wii. How they would revolutionize the genre on the system.

Red Steel was muddled down with poor controls, weak graphics, and game-stopping bugs. It fell quite short of its promise.

Now, with a few games showing HOW YOU DO FPS ON Wii (MP3, MoHH2), Conduit has no excuse to have poor controls.
These images show pretty good visuals for a Wii title, but they may very well be bullshots.
As for bugs... We'll only know that when we play it.

High Voltage seems pretty enthusiastic for the Wii, releasing several original titles for the system (Conduit as a retail game, and Gyrostarr and ¡Animales de la Muerte! for WiiWare), so hopefully that enthusiasm will result in quality games for the system.

Foetoid @ Jun 12th 2008 7:44PM

BPM, you can in NO way compare this to Red Steel. For starters, this game already looks better than Red Steel just from the screenshots and we all know that all games look better IRL compared to screeshots. Secondly, Metroid Prime 3 has already been released, proving that the Wii can controls FPS games better than dual-analog and far better than Red Steel, so The Conduit is going to get the controls right straight off the bat. So we've got potentially better graphics than the spectacular Metroid Prime 3 with equivalent controls. Comparing this to Red Steel is just bollocks.

Im sick of the fucktards coming to this site and bagging out The Conduit cause it doesnt look as good as say Halo 3. Negative feedback like that will only push publishers away from publishing this game and developers away from making future hardcore Wii games. You all complain about the lack of hardcore Wii titles, then bag them out once they do trickle through. WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO PLEASE YOU MORONS!

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 12th 2008 10:33PM

Hey, Foetoid. I'm pro-Wii, man.

I'm just saying that right now is a good time to be critical. We still don't know a lot about the Conduit yet. It could be good, or it could be bad.

I've said that I'm glad that High Voltage is enthusiastic about the Wii. They're showing promise. But given their development history, I'm worried whether or not they can deliver on that promise.

Read my post again.

SoxFan13 @ Jun 13th 2008 12:36AM

Foetoid-

All I'm saying is, a lot of people (or maybe just me) got pretty excited about the screenshots of Red Steel, and I think we agree the game sucked. So far, screenshots are all we've got to compare the two.

By your reasoning, every platformer after SMB3 should have perfect controls, right, cause they did it before?? I wish every developer just added awesome on top of other good games, but that's not always the way it works.