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Teyon is looking for the best of the best of the people who bought its WiiWare shooting game Heavy Fire: Special Operations. If your Wiimote marksmanship is outstanding enough -- or even if it isn't -- you can sign up for the most special operation of all: the one that gets you 2,000 Wii Points.

The three highest-scoring players, and one randomly-selected contestant, will each be awarded 2,000 Wii Points. In order to submit your score, you have to visit the website and input the secret code the game spits out. You have until September 1! For reference, the current high score is 16,570 points.

Gallery: Heavy Fire (WiiWare)



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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Contestheavy-fire-special-operationsnintendoRail-ShooterTeyonwiiWiiWareTue, 03 Aug 2010 03:00:00 EST<![CDATA[How to play Sin & Punishment: Star Successor]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/14/how-to-play-sin-and-punishment-star-successor/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/14/how-to-play-sin-and-punishment-star-successor/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/14/how-to-play-sin-and-punishment-star-successor/#commentsNintendo presents this video as gameplay tips for Sin & Punishment: Star Successor players, but we think those who have yet to get into Treasure's latest explosive shooter stand to benefit more. For one thing, "get lots of coins and medals" is a gameplay tip we could probably all have intuited on our own.

For another, this video works really well as an introduction to the various moves available in game: the different charge shots (Isa's, which sets off one massive explosion, and Kachi's, which can target multiple enemies), the dodge move, the melee attack. If you've been playing the game, you know this stuff, but if you have yet to experience it, this video will give you a pretty decent idea of how it works -- with a lot of boss fight footage as a nice bonus.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>nintendoRail-ShooterShooterSin-and-Punishmentsin-and-punishment-star-successorTreasurewiiWed, 14 Jul 2010 06:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Iwata Asks Treasure about Sin & Punishment: Star Successor]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/28/iwata-asks-treasure-about-sin-and-punishment-star-successor/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/28/iwata-asks-treasure-about-sin-and-punishment-star-successor/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/28/iwata-asks-treasure-about-sin-and-punishment-star-successor/#commentsIn case you missed Siliconera's translation of the Iwata Asks interview with Treasure about Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, Nintendo of America has posted its own translation. And if you have read it, you'll appreciate Nintendo's updated translation of Iwata's statement that the N64 "was a machine that was hard to create things for and didn't work at all." Now that semi-infamous line -- probably more accurately -- states that "If you didn't do it well, it wouldn't work at all."

Later in the interview, Nintendo producer Hitoshi Yamigami described the difficulty of working with Treasure on the first Sin & Punishment, given, well, the difficulty of Treasure games. "When I said, 'It's too difficult. I can't do it," they responded, 'Then you're not good enough to be in charge of this project.'" It took about a year for the team to finally determine that Sin & Punishment was, in fact, too difficult.

For Star Successor, Nintendo's Yurie Hattori joined the project and initially found it too difficult as well, pushing to make the game more accessible. While she did prevail upon Treasure to streamline the experience with a tutorial, she eventually discovered the Treasure fan within her and ended up recommending that the difficulty be increased.

JoystiqIwata Asks Treasure about Sin & Punishment: Star Successor originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>iwata-asksNintendorail-shootershootersin-and-punishmentsin-and-punishment-2sin-and-punishment-star-successortreasureWiiWed, 28 Apr 2010 21:30:00 EST<![CDATA[No Wii is safe from 'Attack of the Movies 3D']]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/06/attack-of-the-movies-3d/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/06/attack-of-the-movies-3d/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/06/attack-of-the-movies-3d/#commentsAvatar may be the big buzz in 3D flicks these days, but for many, the technology is always going to be associated with monster movies and those red-and-blue anaglyph lenses. For those of us hopelessly infatuated with those ridiculous-looking lenses and cheesy movies, Majesco is publishing Attack of the Movies 3D for Wii.

The on-rails shooter features set pieces heavily inspired by movies, for up to four players to blast point-and-click their way through. With your friends, you'll "battle large alien space cruisers, shoot underwater monsters, join the resistance against the machines and more" against enemies "culled from the annals of film history." And you'll get to do it in glorious red and blue -- the game includes four sets of 3D glasses!

Attack of the Movies 3D is expected for release this spring.

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>attack-of-the-movies-3dcasualmajescoNintendorail-shooterWiiWed, 06 Jan 2010 11:05:00 EST<![CDATA[The House of the Dead: Underpriced at Newegg]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/10/the-house-of-the-dead-underpriced-at-newegg/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/10/the-house-of-the-dead-underpriced-at-newegg/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/10/the-house-of-the-dead-underpriced-at-newegg/#commentsIf you like film grain effects, shooting zombies, and getting cursed at, but you haven't picked up The House of the Dead: Overkill yet, this deal from Newegg is exactly what you've been waiting for. The online retailer has marked the game down to $12.99 (with free shipping).

Be warned, there really is a lot of cursing. Even the first 15 minutes of the game sounds like someone stepped on Samuel L. Jackson's foot. That's what that M rating is about. Well, that and all the disgusting dead people exploding and stuff.

[Via GoNintendo]

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The first trailer is all gameplay, demonstrating the ability to shoot from the ground or fly at any time, and also revealing a Bangai-O Spirits-like ability to knock back large missiles. The second trailer is an unexpectedly somber (and incomprehensibly Japanese) overview of the story. Warning: don't get too excited about the story in any Treasure game.

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>nintendo-channelrail-shootersin-and-punishment-2treasureWed, 14 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Lock on to new Sin and Punishment 2 screens]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/08/lock-on-to-new-sin-and-punishment-2-screens/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/08/lock-on-to-new-sin-and-punishment-2-screens/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/08/lock-on-to-new-sin-and-punishment-2-screens/#commentsWe may die of an acute case of jealousy. Treasure's Sin and Punishment 2 is still on track to be released in Japan on October 29, and it still has that amazing box art. Dengeki has posted a nice selection of screens showing the spectacular visuals you'll be flying around, and shooting at. FYI, for the giant chicken monster-phobic: the giant chicken monster is only in one of the screens.

We're looking forward to trying out the multiple control schemes available: both with pointing, in the form of Wiimote/Nunchuk and Zapper, and pointer-free with the GameCube Controller, Classic Controller, or Classic Controller Pro.

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>japanrail-shootersin-and-punishmentsin-and-punishment-2treasureThu, 08 Oct 2009 15:15:00 EST<![CDATA[Sin and Punishment 2 flying into Japan October 29]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/03/sin-and-punishment-2-flying-into-japan-october-29/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/03/sin-and-punishment-2-flying-into-japan-october-29/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/03/sin-and-punishment-2-flying-into-japan-october-29/#commentsThe Japanese box art for Sin and Punishment 2, which appears to have been cropped out of a Famitsu scan by NeoGAFfer neo2046, is awesome. We're all thinking it: it's far too awesome to survive the trip overseas. This amazing art is doomed to be replaced with 3D character art upon its release in North America. But we can appreciate it now!

We can also appreciate the tiny text at the bottom, which reveals a release date of October 29 in Japan. Nintendo of America has yet to update the "Q1 2010" date for North America -- a date that must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but now places this niche game, which we want to protect like a little baby, in the middle of a very dangerous game environment.

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>boxartjapanrail-shootersin-and-punishmentsin-and-punishment-2treasureThu, 03 Sep 2009 17:10:00 EST<![CDATA[Ask Joystiq Nintendo: On rails edition]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/11/ask-joystiq-nintendo-on-rails-edition/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/11/ask-joystiq-nintendo-on-rails-edition/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/11/ask-joystiq-nintendo-on-rails-edition/#commentsWe thought we would be inundated with questions following E3, but it appears that you guys are still too shell-shocked from the Metroid: Other M trailer to speak. Or from the Wii Vitality Sensor reveal. We don't mind telling you, by the way, that we can't help but be delighted that Nintendo is making something that weird. And if you don't think it's a good idea, don't worry too much about it. It's Nintendo, after all, and the thing will end up being used in one game at most.

Anyway, our question this week is about rail shooters. If you have a question for us, send an email to asknintendo AT joystiq DOT com!

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ask-nintendodead-space-extractionon-railsrail-shooterresident-evil-the-darkside-chroniclesThu, 11 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Hands-on: Sin and Punishment 2]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/04/hands-on-sin-and-punishment-2/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/04/hands-on-sin-and-punishment-2/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/04/hands-on-sin-and-punishment-2/#commentsNintendo's E3 booth is full of "Everybody's Games," games designed to be accessible to anyone and enjoyable without being frustrating. Well, it's full of "Everybody's Games" ... and a Treasure shooter. Sin and Punishment 2 doesn't seem to make any concessions to the Wii audience, with the usual frantic pace fans of Bangai-O, Ikaruga, and, well, Sin and Punishment expect, as well as some patently bizarre imagery and language at work. Refer to the giant chicken monster in the trailer above, called the, uh, Cock Keeper. Treasure's English has always been a bit awkward.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>e3-2009Nintendorail-shootershootersin-and-punishmentsin-and-punishment-2treasureWiiThu, 04 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Dead Space: Extraction gameplay footage & prod interview]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/09/dead-space-extraction-gameplay-footage-and-prod-interview/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/09/dead-space-extraction-gameplay-footage-and-prod-interview/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/09/dead-space-extraction-gameplay-footage-and-prod-interview/#commentsIn the IGN video interview embedded after the break, Dead Space: Extraction producer Steve Papoutsis discusses the motivation for the "guided first-person experience" design for the Dead Space prequel, as well as the storyline, the controls, and the co-op modes. That's great, and of course it's wonderful to hear such ideals behind the game's design.

But the real attraction here is footage. The video is interspersed with gameplay footage from Extraction, mostly consisting of the disarming (and dislegging) of creepy spider-dudes. In our estimation, at least, EA is delivering the graphics it needs to ensure that the game is appropriately atmospheric. And by "atmospheric" we mean "eeeeeeeee."

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>dead-spacedead-space-extractioneaElectronic-ArtshorrorNintendorail-shooterspinoffWiiThu, 09 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Dead Space Extraction's twist-off limbs]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/06/dead-space-extractions-twist-off-limbs/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/06/dead-space-extractions-twist-off-limbs/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/06/dead-space-extractions-twist-off-limbs/#commentsThe latest Nintendo Power has a feature on Dead Space: Extraction, from which Nintendo D-Pad extracted one detail about the controls, which seem to prove that there is a motion element involved in gameplay, in addition to all the pointing.

The Rivet Gun is used to shoot Rivet Blades and lop off limbs (the advertised "strategic dismemberment" aspect of the game). You aim it "perpendicular to the limb you are trying to cut off," which translates to twisting the Wiimote around to line up the shot. At least we now know the game isn't entirely point and click!

[Screen via Nintendo Power table of contents (pdf link)]

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Headstrong Games could have chosen to make The House of the Dead: Overkill pretty much on autopilot. Gun goes here, zombies go here, here's a village, and ... cue monotone Engrish exposition. And it would have been awesome! But Headstrong has actually put some thought into the setting and story, meshing characters and elements of the classic series (like Agent G of "G's bloodstains!" fame) with a totally new story and feel.

Headstrong discusses the development of the game's story and locations in a video after the break. We especially like seeing how much attention was paid to creating different zombie designs appropriate to each game's location, if only because about 90% people's attention in the game will be directed at the zombal component.

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Click to embiggen.

Wow. The build-up to House of the Dead: Overkill's release next month has resulted in some excellent art (be it in the form of comics, limited edition boxart, or swag), and here's something else Overkill-related to crave: this superb, grindhousey movie poster. We dearly hope Sega isn't intending to use this solely for the marketing of Overkill and then forget it forever, because this is precisely the kind of thing that needs to be on our walls. You can see a bigger version of this in our gallery, along with three new screens.

Meanwhile, Sega has confirmed a very spooky European release date of Friday, February 13th. That's just in time to treat your loved one to a helping of black magic and violence! Don't forget your Hand Cannon.

JoystiqMore awesome House of the Dead: Overkill art, European date originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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House of the Dead: Overkill players in the UK and Australia will have the option to play the game in a distinctly more badass, yet vaguely cosplayer-esque style, should they choose. Sega and peripheral company Venom will release a Wii gun shell modeled after the "Hand Cannons" the AMS agents in the game carry. Amazon.co.uk is taking preorders for the item, to be shipped on February 13 (two weeks before the February 28 date they claim for the game) at a price of £12.99 ($19).

Australian zombie-haters have it even better: NeoGAFfer untoldhero (an accurate name if ever there was one) found a convincingly official-looking retail listing for a "Bang Bang Box" bundle containing the full Collector's Edition of the game, with the special sleeve and the comic book, as well as two Hand Cannons, for $89 AUD ($59 USD). That price has got to be a mistake. We've got a picture after the break of the heartbreakingly awesome package.

Sadly, we've seen nothing about the Hand Cannon in the US. We fear that Sega's deal with Venom doesn't extend out of PAL territories.

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We thought that when the Wii Zapper bundle was released, Nintendo fans would hang on to Link's Crossbow Training and dump the included plastic handle, but it appears that the opposite is true. GameStop has just dropped the price of used copies of Link's Crossbow Training from five bucks to a ridiculous $2.99. The retailer is not currently offering used Zappers on their online store.

At the amazingly low (seriously, like last year's Madden low) $2.99, Link's Crossbow Training is officially Worth It for pretty much everybody, provided they have even a passing interest in the Zelda series or in shooting at stuff. And with no Zapper, it's so much more compact! If you're planning to grab this from the online store, use coupon code CAG16 (for Cheap Ass Gamers) to get an additional 16% off the price.

JoystiqLink's Price Slashing originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The House of the Dead series is permeated by an impossible-to-identify "Seganess." Some combination of arcade-fast gameplay, silliness, and Engrish just makes it feel like a Sega game. For the latest entry in the franchise, Headstrong Games has taken over for Sega's Wow Entertainment (now Wow Overworks), exchanging the campy horror vibe for something a bit more '70s-action.

With a new developer (from a new continent!) and a new style, do you think it's possible for Overkill to still feel like The House of the Dead? Or is the fresh coat of paint actually a good way to distance the new game from its predecessors?

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First seen as a mysterious title in the ESRB's database, new screens of Wild West Guns show the game to be ... pretty much exactly what we would have guessed: a Western-themed light gun game. Like Mad Dog McCree, but with less grainy video and more blocky polygons.

The 1,000 Wii Point WiiWare game will support four players in cooperative and competitive modes, and will include Zapper compatibility (remember the Zapper?). It also supports feelings of guilt over the adversarial depiction of Native Americans, and rationalizations about such treatment being a staple of the Western genre. That will be somewhat less salient when Wild West Guns comes out in Japan on July 22. Maybe that's why Gameloft revealed it to the Japanese press first.

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As it did in Japan, publisher Capcom will be releasing a Biohazard/Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Zapper bundle on June 20th in Korea for ?55,000 (approximately $52.50). No word yet on whether any bonuses will be thrown in with early preorders, but it's very likely!

Why don't these third-party bundles ever make it stateside? You'd think that Capcom, a company that has repackaged and sold to us the same game several dozen times in just three years, would be thrilled to thrust upon us yet another box bearing the Resident Evil logo! What's so great about Korea that they should get this package, and not us?

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If you think you're done with your copy of The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, you may be in for a surprise! Sega released these videos of secret modes available in both games contained on the disc. We believe these costumes are unlocked through House of the Dead 2's Original Mode minigame, and it is totally worth the time to unlock the nice old lady costume seen here.

Bruno Delinger, star of Dynamite Deka (which was released over here as Die Hard Arcade with John McClane as the protagonist), has been unlockable in The House of the Dead 2 since the Dreamcast version. It's a somewhat little-known bonus, and we still find it humorously out of place.

The last video features The House of the Dead 3's Extreme Mode, in which you have to shoot specific weak points on zombies to take them down.

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This week on Zero Punctuation, gaming misanthrope Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw tackles Wii rail shooter Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. While the acidic one lays into the shamelessly cheesy dialogue and concludes that Capcom's title is "a rather unnecessary game that gaming history will swiftly forget," he also admits the game has "a charming retro feel."

The entire review is embedded after the break, but remember, kids: this is Zero Punctuation, and so NSFW.

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Ghost Squad, as we've already seen, is not afraid of being different. It's also not afraid of standing up for itself and picking on bigger games, when the need arises; games such as the PlayStation 3's Resistance: Fall of Man. The print advert above, for example, has been seen in various German magazines in recent weeks. And if we were being completely honest, we'd totally buy Resistance: Fall of Mandy.

[Via Go Nintendo]

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Most Simple series games betray their low-budgetness in fairly obvious ways: crap graphics and either boring (mah-jongg) or insane premises. They also tend to be direct copies of other more popular games. Simple DS Vol. 32 THE Zombie Panic looks like pretty much the same concept as Touch the Dead, which is, uh, pretty much the same concept as The House of the Dead -- "shoot at some zombies."

But where THE Zombie Panic diverges from its DS contemporary is that, well, it's got a sword in it. That's, like, a paradigm shift for zombie-shooting games. We'll take the dual-wielding as well.

There's something suspicious about a fully-3D first-person game like this being made for the Simple series. We suspect that Dream Factory was originally doing this for another publisher who canned the project.

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We've been showing you a lot of Ghost Squad videos lately, but that's no reason to forget the other rail shooter coming out this season. As you can see from the video above (which is titled "The Opening Video," but it's probably just a trailer), the game looks mighty fine, indeed. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is set for release on November 13, which we know will put some more hurt on a lot of wallets. We're definitely interested, at least.

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We apologize in advance for dropping more Ghost Squad media onto your lap, but this newest video features ninjas, and our love for ninjas is outstripped only by our zeal for zombies ... and Batman.

While this unlockable mode for Sega's rail shooter doesn't have any bikini-clad women or porpoise pistols, it does have plenty of ninjas, ninjas, and more frickin' ninjas. Specifically, ninjas with submachine guns. What sort of stealth assassins need firearms? And what ever happened to Michael Dudikoff? We may never know ...

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The last time we brought you Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 gameplay videos, there was nary a plunger to be found. Fortunately, these new trailers from IGN show us that the rail-shooter minigame has returned.

Despite the fact that we thoroughly enjoy shooting stuff with plungers, especially crazy bunnies, we have to say that these videos just didn't do much for us. Maybe it's because the one embedded above reminds us of being forced to sit in the front row at a movie theater. Maybe it was the pacing, or the lack of music. Then again, perhaps we're over this whole rabbid thing.

Don't get us wrong, we still love the little buggers ... but whatever it is, something is just off. Are we cranky today, or do you feel the same way?

By the way, more plunger videos are embedded after the jump.

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If you shelled out the cash to buy Sin and Punishment on your Virtual Console, then you already know how awesome it is. If not, we've deployed some hypnotoads to find you and make you buy the game, so be prepared.

Now that we've sufficiently shoved the game down your throat communicated the brilliance of this game to you, excuse us while we squeal for a few seconds at the mere possibility of a sequel on the Wii. After all, we're only human (and part robot).

The source of our glee, you wonder? When asked about a possible sequel to Sin and Punishment, Treasure president Masato Maegawa told Nintendo Power, "When we were originally working on Sin and Punishment [for Virtual Console], there was some discussion utilizing Wii-like controls, and I think now that we're working more with the Wii, it is something we'd very much like to try."

We have just one message for you, Treasure: NOBODY LIKES A TEASE!

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