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"...in this MotionPlus-enabled rail slasher."

All my hopes are diminished by those 6 words.

If it's cheap then I'll consider a purchase. And I'll wait for the review.

Sweet! I hope it's good. Unfortunatly, my fiancé asked to take the wii that week (birthday).

Oh its on rails.... i was really looking fowards to this one until i saw that.

well if its good i might give it a try since i want some motionplus games

once again, ON RAILS DOES NOT MEAN IT'S ANY LESS OF A GAME.

ranting over, do you guys know if motion plus is necessary, or just featured? i am going to be very wary of this game, regardless, however, not because of the on-rails aspect, but because that was the single most unimpressive video i've ever seen. looking forward to the review.

I'll be waiting for a review, but I do hope this turns out to be a good one, it looks nice from what I've seen so far.

How does this game end up getting released before "Rage of the Gladiator" by Ghostfire games?

It was too dark to see. My TV screen sucks... XP

Yeah, I think people take the on-rails thing a bit too seriously and have no idea what they are talking about, considering some of the best games are "on rails" like Killer 7, Sin & Punishment and any side scrolling shooter where the camera is constantly moving really.

This game looks good.

Also, I really REALLY hate how Nintendo makes companies put that damn WiiWare logo and rating thing at the beginning for a whole 10-12 seconds, that's just a ridiculous amount of time to have a stupid logo and a rating.

I much rather this be a first person adventure where i have full control over my character than a Guided experience anyday.This does look great though

yeah it really annoys me the way people arbitrarily complain about "on rails" around here. A game in a vehicle on rails is one thing but operating a person on rails can't be dissmissed until it's been played. But I won't even get into it anymore, it's not worth it.
I don't know what to think about this, though. Looks like it could be a little slow; and whats with the invisible arms and hands? Hopefully the mo+ sword fighting gets intense enough to make it a fun, cheap, diversion.

Awesome! I hope its near decent.

The best on Rails Experience for the Wii is the HOTD 2 & 3 Collection...HOTD 2 is a classic. and the IR with the nyko perfect shot is dead on like the arcade. HOTD Overkill was totaly mediocre and a dissapointment in comparison. I hated Umbrella Chronicals, but i kind of want to check out Dead Space Extraction

A lot of people don't like having no control over their characters movement, you can't change that.

This game might be better than it looks, but that trailer does it little justice.

Have people not played the fencing bits in Wii Sports Resort? Lots of fun and no control over the character, but I guess if you don't like that then you're not going to like this or Rage of the Gladiator or Punch Out! right?

@bro2dragons: according to the interview MotionPlus is optional, though I would expect it's a better experience.

@Donatello: You hated Umbrella chronicles, why?

@Hardy83: I didn't know Killer 7 was on rails. That was for gamecube right? Was it on any other system?

Wow, this looks... not so good.

@longtimegamer: Killer 7 was also made for the PS2, but I think the Gamecube version is said to be superior.

i am far from impressed so far some of you guys have high hopes i hope you are right

@Hardy83 killer isn't on rails but 2.5 movement

Looks like it might be good. I'll wait for the review

It has a "tech demo" look to it, in my opinion. Kind of like the slicing challenge in Sports Resort, except with creepies instead of household items. So production values, audio, and soundtrack (if any) will make or break this game for me.

the killer 7 kind of discussion is just what I mean. "on rails" can mean many things when you're talking about moving around as a person. the point is if you're doing all kinds of things with upper body sometimes it makes sense to limit your movement to occasional direction choices and focus the game on battle action.
The HOTD games you're focus is to blast things fast and accurately, not find stuff and sneak around in closets so thinking about where to go would just bog down the experience.
I guess if you must have control, you must have control. I actually feel the same ( or opposite) way about all rpg's. I won't play them because I hate wandering around blocky landscapes for hours with occasional breaks to meet up with pre-placed figures on a screen that determine fights by number values. Nothing is more boring to me.

motion plus enabled? sounds good to me, not too bothered about the rails

@LongtimeGamer
For me, Umbrella Chronicals was a total half artichoke attempt by Capcom.
The IR was clunky, the hit detection was horrid, the pacing was bad, the slowdown was terribly annoying at times, runs at 30fps and lower, the boss battles(take the Tyrant for example) half such a tiny Dead Zone when trying to take them down which because frusturating, it gets boring fast...actually for me, once I hit Racoon City(RE3 Nemesis Scenario) i was getting tired of it. And really, the outside areas of the game were the weakest, they look awful too. The Experience was just so mediocre for me, it's a poor man's Resident Evil/On Rails/Light Gun game.

Although, Darkside Chronicals looks better....I'm just alittle iffy on it though, i may give it a Rental. But knowing me I'll for sure buy Dead Space Extraction.

And really, I dont know which game I found worse....HOTD Overkill or Umbrella Chronicles....at least Overkill doesn't have fake Widescreen Bars and sleep inducing gameplay, but Overkill isn't so pretty either, especially when it came to the weak sauce Boss battles.. Both games are letdowns, and I didn't really have any fun playing either of them.

Again, HOTD 2(especially) and 3 for the Wii own both games. IR is dead one 100%, both games run at 60fps, solid graphics(2 may be dated, but they're still decent) fast arcady gameplay, great Boss battles ect.

oh hell yeah i thought that this was still a ways off. I can finally use my Wii M+ on something aside from wii sports.

I'd prob insta-download it unless disastrous. Look forward to the NL review.

I hope its at least decent. If it has an online leaderboard for scores and its $5, count me in. I want more WMP games, and I for one like on-rails games, though they have no business costing $50 EVER.

cool, I'll wait till more information about it is out, but I am interested

dead space rocked and it was on rails

I'm hoping for the best. But it'll have to be REAL good to be worth the price NOA will probably give it. They've been overpricing a ton of Wiiware games lately.

Looks pretty lame and methodical to me. I know other people have tried this before, and few have turned out all that good, yet all of them look better than this.

@Donatello-Gonna have to mostly disagree with you. While it could be argued that UC and DC have pacing problems (anything else wrong in UC was mostly fixed in DC) and Overkill didn't have the best engine. I found any one of the three far more enjoyable than HOTD2+3. It has about 2 hours of content with no save points and ridiculous bosses. I almost enjoyed HOTD3, but dying at the last boss and being forced to play the last hour again really puts a bitter taste in my mouth.

Big fan of the Chronicles games here; I certainly didn't have issues with UC - mostly I liked them because they weren't regular Resident Evil games! This could be good; I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt.