E308 Media | High Voltage Walkthrough the Conduit

By Jorge Ba-oh 16.07.2008 13

High Voltage software recently discussed the gorgeous Wii-exclusive FPS in detail in two walkthrough videos.

Discussion includes enemy AI and movement spanning range of different ground and air creatures gagging for a piece of human blood. The team also unveil a series of weird and wonderful weaponry to get your mitts onto and expansive environments to explore.

The conduit is due for release in 2009.

Box art for The Conduit
Developer

High Voltage

Publisher

SEGA

Genre

First Person Shooter

Players

1

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  7/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  8/10 (30 Votes)

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Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 16.07.2008#1

yeas just saw part 2 look really good but im not really a FPS fan

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TimoteiWest is offline. TimoteiWest 16.07.2008#2

It looks really good, surprisingly so. Controls look very Metroid Prime, visuals are impressive.. possibly from a technical point of view rather than end user, but it's all good. Should be a good game when it's released. Did they ever get a high profile publisher?

The commentry makes it sound so boring though!

 
jb is offline. jb 16.07.2008#3

Lol, yeah - the commentary is a little dry, but I agree - it does look visually impressive. I worry about having to continually aim at the screen and how they'll get around sudden wrist movements, but for now it's really shaping up to be a decent addition to the Wii list.

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tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 16.07.2008#4

That looks really impressive. A bit of a generic sci-fi shooter which is something you see all the time on the 360 and the PS3 but not on the Wii so I think they're doing this just to prove that it workson the system as well. I'm hoping for their next project it'll be a FPS that isn't all spacey and alieny. Well at least not one that's as generic as this.

 
Phoenom is offline. Phoenom 16.07.2008#5

A good read of Hands-on time with The Conduit here. This paragraph is quite disheartening;

I�ll end with a little bit of conversation that came up in our elevator ride down to the hotel lobby. We got into talking about publishers, and while High Voltage wouldn�t give me a name, they had a truly horrible story to tell. One publisher they approached outright told them that they didn�t understand why High Voltage was making the game. They thought the project was great, but had no idea who they were trying to sell to. After saying that, the publishers said that they wanted to turn the game into a $20 project, and crap it out for a holiday release. Yes, the publisher really said 'crap it out'. Seriously, how disheartening is that?

My intuition tells me that was Ubisoft.Smilie

 
Stulaw is offline. Stulaw 16.07.2008#6

Core, blimey, the game really does look great. I just read the link that phoenixus posted, and go nintendo were really impressed.

I think the publisher they were talking to was obviously Ubishit. But then, Who know?

 
-orion456- is offline. -orion456- 16.07.2008#7

Looking good.

If you've played the latest MoH on wii with high high sensitivity on the controls, you'll know that FPS's can work very well.

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Mason is offline. Mason 16.07.2008#8

Very nice looking visually, though does look a bit generic. Still one of the more interesting games on the Wii side at the moment, though. The third parties really bailed out Nintendo this E3.

 
TAG is offline. TAG 17.07.2008#9

Phoenixus said:
A good read of Hands-on time with The Conduit here. This paragraph is quite disheartening;

I�ll end with a little bit of conversation that came up in our elevator ride down to the hotel lobby. We got into talking about publishers, and while High Voltage wouldn�t give me a name, they had a truly horrible story to tell. One publisher they approached outright told them that they didn�t understand why High Voltage was making the game. They thought the project was great, but had no idea who they were trying to sell to. After saying that, the publishers said that they wanted to turn the game into a $20 project, and crap it out for a holiday release. Yes, the publisher really said 'crap it out'. Seriously, how disheartening is that?

My intuition tells me that was Ubisoft.Smilie

Oh, I'm buying it now! I want this game to become hugely successful just because the publisher said that. I'm somewhat spiteful.

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J4K is offline. J4K 17.07.2008#10

I'll probably buy this just to support the company. Its nice to see a Wii developer actually trying. It of course doesn't hurt that the game looks awesome.

 
ohm is offline. ohm 17.07.2008#11

I don't know, it doesn't look that great to me. I am just happy to see some effort been put in, I reckon MP3 had better visuals.

 
trgdr777 is offline. trgdr777 17.07.2008#12

iCAME said:
I don't know, it doesn't look that great to me. I am just happy to see some effort been put in, I reckon MP3 had better visuals.

I think that has less to do with how much technology is used and more to do with knowing what looks appealing. Games like MP3 and Galaxy look so good because the art was great and they knew what effects to use and where to use them. It's about using the right tools to enhance the visuals rather than using as much as possible of everything. That's why an HD game on the other consoles can still look underwhelming.

That said, this looks very promising, and it's good to hear that the hands on impressions are positive. Smilie

 
Dr_R is offline. Dr_R 17.07.2008#13

trgdr777 said:
iCAME said:
I don't know, it doesn't look that great to me. I am just happy to see some effort been put in, I reckon MP3 had better visuals.

I think that has less to do with how much technology is used and more to do with knowing what looks appealing. Games like MP3 and Galaxy look so good because the art was great and they knew what effects to use and where to use them. It's about using the right tools to enhance the visuals rather than using as much as possible of everything. That's why an HD game on the other consoles can still look underwhelming.

That said, this looks very promising, and it's good to hear that the hands on impressions are positive. Smilie

Entirely correct. I think, in terms of raw numbers of effects, The Conduit has the 'best graphics on Wii'. In terms of being actually aesthetically pleasing, that award would go to Galaxy, Okami or Prime 3. Personally, I'd include No More Heroes in that list too, but I'm sure plenty of others would disagree.

The Conduit looks pretty good and is a very nice change from the rest of the Wii catalogue, diversity = spice of life and all that.

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