The Conduit is a long awaited game for its best graphics the Wii could offer.  The controls are fast, smooth, and allow you to shoot with accurate precisions unlike some other shooting games.   However that’s not all this multiplayer Wii game offers.

This multiplayer Wii games lets you play as Agent Michael Ford as he battles through hoards and hoards of enemy aliens and mind-possessed ex-agents.  The story may sound old and redone, but hey blasting aliens and other players online is still fun.

The Conduit Gameplay

Controls

If you played a first person shooter game, like 007: Quantum of Solace, then you should know the controls are similar for those two Wii multiplayer games.

People online are tougher then any enemies you can encounter in Story Mode.

You point to the screen with the Wiimote (fast and accurate), and you shoot with B.  Press A to jump (allows you to dodge enemy fire).  C Allows you to crouch (perfect for cover fire and evading attacks).  Z is for targeting your opponents.  When you target though you don’t automatically lock on to them, it just makes it easier for you to hit them.

You do melee attacks by thrusting your Wiimote, and you throw your grenade by swinging the Nunchuck.  Pressing the 4 directions on the D-pad leads you to different options:

• Up – Makes you turn around
• Right – Makes you change to your other weapon
• Down – Makes you zoom in or out.  You can use your weapons scope if it has one.
• Left – Change grenade types

Gameplay

Like I mention earlier you play as Michael Ford.  You’re a skilled agent that gets used in the game and changes sides as the story moves on.  You play in the near future in Washington, D.C.  (because that’s where all of the important stuff happens at).

Things happened and then your objective became to wipe out these aliens known as Druge that are planning to take control of Planet Earth.

You come in this game with the A.S.E. (All Seeing Eye).  This helps you throughout the game (and acts like a flag in multiplayer mode), by solving puzzles and getting rid of these very annoying invisible bombs that will instantly kill you if you don’t disarm them.

As you moved on in the game you can pick up some nice human and alien weapons to fight your enemies with.  You’ll need them, because you’ll be facing mob after mob of aliens if you don’t take out the egg sac or portal that’s summoning them.

The Conduit Multiplayer

With great multiplayer brings great fun.  The Conduit doesn’t have any offline multiplayer shooting action, but it has Nintendo WFC.  You could play randomly with a lot of game modes online with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.  This means you could organize a game with your friends, but it’s not necessary.  However if you ever decide to do that then you need to add friend codes.

Note: You can play with friends, regional, and worldwide with this multiplayer Wii game.

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

Okay first of all you can customize what you look like.  You don’t get to choose a whole lot, just a couple of models (agent, drone, guard, scientist, and a secret character).  You can choose them, and then customize their colors.

Now that you have created a character let’s move on to the shooting multiplayer game action with other people.  There are 3 modes to play in, and they each have several rules to make the game even more unique.

Free-For-All

Everyone kill each other.  The person with the most kills win.  It gets as simple as that.  In this multiplayer mode your character colors are what you set them

When you get the ASE you become everyone's target, run!!

too.  In team mode you don’t have custom coloring.  There are 5 rules you can vote for:

• Quick-Match – The time is shortened and the first person who reach set amount of kills win
• Marathon – There’s no respawn time or kill limits, so just kill, kill, kill.  The person with the most kill in 20 minutes wins.
• Three-Strikes – You have 3 lives.  If you are the last man standing you win the game.
• ASE Football – You basically have to fight for the ASE.  Every second you hold it you get 1 point.  So you win if you’re the first to get 99 points, or have the most points when the time runs out.
• Bounty Hunter – As the name suggests you play like a bounty hunter hunting a target.  Everybody gets a random target to kill.  If they kill them they get 2 points.  However if you kill someone else you lose a point, but if you kill your hunter you don’t lose any.

Team Reaper

This multiplayer shooting mode pits one team against the other for killing points.  If you want to win, then kill like there’s no tomorrow!  There are 3 rules to vote on:

• Quick-Match – The time is shortened and the first team who reach set amount of kills win
• Marathon – There’s no respawn time or kill limits, so just kill, kill, kill.  The team with the most kills in 20 minutes wins.
• Shared Stock – Each team gets 50 lives.  The first team to run out of lives loses.

Team Objective

This is capture basically capture the flag styled game.  Each team has a ASE to guard and for the other team to capture.  There are 4 rules to vote on in this Wii multiplayer game:

• Quick-Match – The time is shortened and the first team who captures the ASE 5 time wins.  If not the team who has captured it the most wins.
• Marathon – The team that captures the ASE the most in 20 minutes wins.
• Killing Override – This mode allows you to win either by capturing the ASE 5 times or just killing 75 people.
• Single ASE – The ASE is placed in the middle of the map.  The teams have to race to it, and take it back to their HQ.

Conclusion

The Conduit offers a fun gaming experience as you can also you voice chat online (although I never use it).  The controls are slick, and being engage in a one-on-one gun match is exhilarating.

Besides that Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection also offers a gigantic magnitude of modes and rule to play on this multiplayer Wii game.

if you’re interested, you should buy this game, but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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