Fasten Your Seatbelt And Prepare For The Flight Of Your Life!
Posted by: Aaron Lockard on January 26, 2007 5:34:46 AM
Wing Island Launches across Europe on Wii
Get ready to take to the skies with the ultimate aerial adventure! Wing
Island will allow you and your friends to hone your flying techniques
as you soar through the clouds as an ace biplane pilot, performing
death-defying stunts and exciting tricks along the way with ease. Wing
Island soars across Europe on Wii on 23rd March 2007. Wing Island is
published by Hudson and distributed by Nintendo.
As the first
flying game for the dynamic Wii Console, Wing Island is like no other
flying game out there. Using the Wii's ground-breaking motion sensitive
controls, players can feel as if they really are flying their plane.
The use of the Wii Remote allows players to achieve maximum precision
whilst flying, combined with a more realistic feel. By simply tilting
the controller left or right, you can turn the plane in the desired
direction by angling the remote up or down gamers can easily change
height. Quick turns can be easily achieved by waving the remote's tip
to the left or the right. Acceleration and breaking is equally simple
to control with quick bursts of speed controlled by quickly thrusting
the remote forward or backward, whilst more steady speed is achieved by
pressing up or down on the D-pad. Not only is this a simple and
intuitive way to control the game but it also brings an all-new level
of fun and excitement to the game, regardless of your previous gaming
experience, as your movements control the plane.
In the main
Story mode, gamers progress by completing each mission and unlocking
new locations. The game's single player missions set the player a
number of fun tasks to test their flying skills ranging from food drops
to extinguishing forest fires and taking photos of assigned objects.
Players earn different ratings for each mission based on time, accuracy
and damage to the planes. This in turn influences points, bonus points,
and money awarded for each of the 27 missions. Earning money in turn
allows players the opportunity to tune and repair their plane and even
buy one of seven completely new planes. During each mission the player
has the opportunity to fly solo or in a formation of five dependent
upon which mission they are involved in, therefore enabling the player
to experience the best of both flight methods.
“Wing Island' is
centred around three different, exotic cartoon islands inhabited by
wacky cartoon animals who will help players complete the tasks they are
set. The first island is the smallest and houses “Wing Inc', where the
first few missions take place. The second location becomes available
after completion of the initial missions and presents more challenging
terrain across which to navigate. The third and final island has a
large city built on it and is by far the most challenging to navigate
across.
If the idea of completing missions doesn't appeal to you
then select Free Mode where you can fly freely around the islands in
the game without constraints of time. At any point in the mission
players can also try and break their own records to show off to their
friends in the Single Player Competitive Mode. There are three options
in this mode: score attack, where players must pop balloons by ramming
them with a spike on the plane, time attack where they must race
through numbered gates and also Plane Tail which allows you to pop
balloons tied to your opponent,
If a bit of extra competition is
what you're looking for why not go head to head against a friend to
prove yourself a flying ace, or perfect your skills by taking on Wii in
Two Player Mode. As in Single Player Competitive Mode, this mode also
contains score attack and time, as well as Plane Tail.
The
super-exciting “Wing Island' flies into stores across Europe on Wii on
the 23rd March 2007 at an estimated retail price of around 49 Euros
(approximately $34 in the UK). The Wii console is available across
Europe priced at 249 Euros (approximately $179).