Only one Virtual Console release today - and it's the rather average Namco top-down shooter Xevious. People tend to bang on about how great this game is and for a shooter from 1982 it's pretty decent, but by the time it was released on the NES (which is the version available for download - the PC Engine version is actually closer to the arcade original - God knows why they didn't offer that instead) it was dated, and today it's old enough to get a free bus pass.
Only really worth downloading if you want an insight into the history of the shooting genre, otherwise spend your Wii points elsewhere - Soldier Blade is a much better game!
Roll on next week when Nintendo might actually bother to release some decent stuff!
About Damien McFerran
Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.
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No comments? Well when its a poor game like this I am not surprised.
One of europe's worst weeks.
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