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Is it just me or are these buttons WAY to ugly?! The whole site here is really neat looking and then you put in huge fugly grey boxes? Please have someone make some graphics for this or at least use some CSS or such to style them.

As for Conduit I think it will be a great game and given the number of attractive titles for 25yr old males like me I'm going to buy this if only for the fact that it's one of the few actually interesting games on the platform.

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I am by no means, a fan of FPS games...
however, the Conduit seems like it may change that...I think it's gonna be a rent before I buy type of think, but I am honestly excited about it.

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1. I agree on the button thing. It's incongruous to the neat artistic theme of the site

2. Both sides have valid points, but i ultimately feel that the game deserves its support and its hype, if only purely for its technical achievements in graphical excellence and the fact that it will be the first online competitive multiplayer Wii game to use voice chat

The Conduit is kind of like the antithesis to No More Heroes. Where NMH failed, and failed hard, was in its polygon count and the overall level of polish, especially on the overworld, and this is where The Conduit succeeds. Meanwhile, by the developer's own admission, The Conduit is a jumble of everything good that's been done before in an FPS, while NMH was a thing of beauty from a thematic standpoint

Chris makes an excellent point, however, in that the only reason this game is at all significant is because it's on Wii, where there are only two other efforts that compare to it: Metroid Prime 3 and MoH:H2, and it combines the better ideas of both games. The Conduit is something very unique for someone like me, who only has a Wii and a DS, but to any multiplatform owner, this game is "been there, done that" to a very extreme degree

But, for the technical effort alone, it deserves recognition by anyone who wants to see better 3rd party technical efforts on the platform

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I have no opinion. Yet.

The game does look promising in that it takes from Half-Life and Metroid and such. But I also don't have quite enough info on the game yet. So you'll get no opinion from me just yet.

I am looking forward to it however, as it will have some online modes. Though I'm also looking forward to the next MoH:Heroes 2 for online play. I haven't picked it up yet because I know the next version is around the corner and I may as well just wait for that one. Or Call of Duty; I'd actually love to have that instead but I'm just using MoH as an example.

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MoH didn't have online. Remember they had it in the manual but not on the box or in the game?

Oh wait, that was Australia...

High Voltage, please don't go with EA as a publisher.

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I can't wait for this game. I got so excited that I just recently MoH Heros2. On-line rocks!!!

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I think that it does deserve the hype simply because it's a game that is trying to disprove a lot of "Wii Stereotypes" namely, it has to have bad graphics and it's only for kiddie / mini games.

High Voltage seems excited and dedicated to make this better than the average crap game that gets released on the system, so in turn I'll put a little faith in them and be excited too.

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I'm completely burnt out from the FPS genre having spent four years primarily with that genre with the original Xbox, so I guess the apathy I feel towards this game must stem from the apathy from the genre. But I did have fun times, but even in those fun times this game would not have taken my interest. It just looks mediocre, like Chris says, and satisfied in its mediocrity. The game has a whole Brute Force vibe about it. It wasn't a FPS but it got extraordinary hype and was thoroughly underwhelming.

Also, for a Wii game to lack multiplayer splitscreen – something Halo CE had in 2002 – is rather disappointing. Nintendo Wi-Fi, at times, can be a very cold experience.Nothing beats sitting next to someone, or amongst a group, playing Mario Kart or Umbrella Chronicles. Once I read that The Conduit lacked this elementary feature the little interest I had dwindled down to nought.

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I think Halo 3 was overhyped. Most FPSs are. There hasn't been an innovation with this genre for years.

... except that the Conduit offers one thing: the Wii-mote.

This is a big step for gaming. Only thing that comes close is Metroid Prime 3.

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Ugh. "First Person Adventure" is marketing/PR tripe. Metroid Prime is a First Person Shooter with heavy exploration elements. Things get shot in first person. FPS.

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I'm right in the middle of these two opinions. My main reason for getting a Wii over a 360 or ps3 was because the Wii was the only system of the three that had a significant amount of non-FPS games (I can play almost all the good ps3/360 FPSs on PC). However, I'm pretty excited to see how the new control scheme works out, as I haven't played MP3:C or MOH:H2 yet. If The Conduit used a traditional control scheme (GC/Classic Controller), I'd probably avoid buying it.

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as a person who cut his fps teeth (figuratively) on doom and quake, and who mostly bought a wii for his kids and wife, but who has also been enjoying the hell out of it - i'm actually pumped for this game.

i've bought precisely three consoles in my life: genesis, dreamcast, and a wii, as i've been primarily a pc gamer. the increasingly obtuse and complex button mashing required for modern console games has been a real turn off and when the wii came about, i saw something interactive and fun which doesn't require a carpal-inducing combo of button presses to master. this game, the conduit, seems to embody precisely what i enjoy out of both of my gaming desires, so i'm all sorts of on board.

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I have no desire to play any first person style games, The Conduit included.
They just don't do anything for me.

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Even though I am very much looking forward to The Conduit and hope it's really good and sells really well, I agree with Chris that were this game on any other console, people wouldn't think it was very special. It's only because the Wii is so starved of quality third-party games that we're so excited about it and that's quite sad. As I say, I really hope it turns out great, but I can't help but feel we may all be cluthing at straws.

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I love poll choices for those who no opinion but wish to vote anyway.

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worth the hype, because it will raise graphical standards on wii if successful and maybe show a market for core/third-party titles.(possibly meaning a chain reaction leading to better efforts on wii)

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It is not over hype. It just the one reason that the wii is just to full of bad and awful games that this one brings some relief to hardcore games. We should at least be thank full and stop bashing something that we really want.

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