Pilotwings Resort reviewed in a hurry
I'm flying a rocket pack! (And a jet plane and a hang-glider.) Over a beautiful tropical island packed with features that are just begging to have stunts pulled in, through and around them! There's a volcano! And it's all in 3D!
I shouldn't be this bored, should I?
Well, to tell you, it's enjoyable on the Wii… until you realize you're holding the controller like a paper plane and doing barrel rolls. Then you feel plain stupid and old.
It's a Wii game?
Pretty much the whole of Pilotwings Resort is ONE section of Wii Sports Resort, but with more vehicles.
For £40 RRP? That is WEAK.
(Also, I just read the Eurogamer review and there isn't even a passing mention of how little game there is in there. That's properly awful.)
It's like a playable demo that they charge full-price for.
Actually, it's not "like" that at all.
Wait, so Pilotwings Resort is basically Wii Sports Resort plane section with… more planes and that's it? REALLY?
Jesuschrist, what a ripoff!
The part that's the same as Wii Sports is the 'free flight' mode, which isn't at all free as it only lets you fly around for a few minutes. The missions are new, so there's literally hours (two or three of them) of new content in this.
Games with Miis instead of proper characters are just shit, aren't they? And for this one they didn't even make a proper level, only some recycled island from Wii Sports.
Try Steel Diver (if you can borrow it – don't waste money on it). There's even less game in that than Pilotwings Resort.
Back in the late '80s and early '90s, it was common practice for developers to hurl snazzy graphics onto the screen in hopes of both dazzling players and distracting them from how pathetically little gameplay they were getting for their money. Shadow of the Beast, anyone? Microcosm? Rise (hack, spit) of the Robots?
Now, of course, every game has snazzy graphics. But Nintendo have hit upon a new way of dazzling and distracting people – glasses-free 3D! Now that's progress. And hey, if movie-makers can use 3D as the big selling point of their films, so they don't have to worry about such trifling matters as originality or fun or value for money, why shouldn't it work for Nintendo?
Hey, does anybody else hear the sound of a bubble bursting somewhere?
I was going to say "Isn't that the island from Wii Fit but slightly re-arranged?".