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Tonight, at Droib’s, we finally managed to try some Goldeneye 007. You know, the new Wii thing.

This game seems like it was created to fill a niche. There are no real hardcore shooters on the Wii. This is because, to be, there’s no real need for one. The people who want those games should have an Xbox, right? But they thought otherwise. Surely there must be people out there with a Wii who would like an online shooter.

Those people will love Goldeneye. Everyone else will kind of wonder why they went to the trouble.

I mean, it’s all solid. We had some fun split-screen multiplayer times, reminiscing about old Goldeneye experiences. It’s a bit slower-paced than most modern shooters, but controls fine. You get to pick loadouts, which have perks that, I assume, you can modify playing the actual online mode. That’s cool. Most of the maps seemed okay? There were fewer remakes of classic maps than I expected. Maybe there are more on the online mode.

The real question was of controls themselves. I had a Classic Controller Pro, which seemed to be the way to go. The controls mapped in a pretty quickly learnable way. However, everyone else was using Gamecube controllers, which presented more of a problem. They mapped Z as a “modifier” key for many buttons on the controller. This works okay, but man, it was nearly impossible to figure out, even looking at the in-game controller diagrams. Once everyone figured that out, though, they could work things fine. It’s just not usual. Then again, the Gamecube controller is really, really weird, so it’s not surprising they had to resort to weird stuff.

We didn’t try Wiimote + Nunchuck because we aren’t stupid. Also we couldn’t find a Nunchuck.

Anyway, it was fun for the hour or two we played it, but I don’t know if we’d ever go back to it again. I certainly wouldn’t without the nostalgia factor. I kind of want to see what the single player is like, but at the same time, it’s not a priority. It seems like a solid product, but it’s not really aimed at me. It’s aimed at people with a Wii and nothing else. I’m sure as hell not that person.