If you can get past the headache-inducing music and repetitive gameplay, Heatseeker offers some pretty solid fun.

User Rating: 7 | Heatseeker WII
Heatseeker is an okay game. It's certainly nothing special, and it feels very, very arcadey and old-school, and yet, it offers some decent thrills and fun. Basically, you just fly around, enduring a terrible heavy rock soundtrack while blasting the living crap out of anything that stands in your way.

Heatseeker's music is very, very annoying. The sound effects are all muddled with the awful and repetitive soundtrack, and it sounds like your commander is often having seizures as he's speaking to you. The problem is, when the music is turned off, there are no ambient sound effects to keep you company, so you end up feeling lonely listening to the same sound of a jet engine looping over and over. So, as a result, you end up HAVING to keep the music on. Thankfully, there's a "low" setting for the music, allowing you to tone down the terrible.

The graphics in this game are bad. The explosions look cheesy, there's not much shading going on in the environments (the only noticeable shadows are the small ones that you're plane casts over itself), and the textures are terrible and low-res. All in all, it looks like a bad Dreamcast port, on par with the graphics of games like the original, arcade version of Crazy Taxi. It was 2007 when this game was released, not 1999 for crying out loud!

Thankfully, the gameplay is solid. Controlling your ship with the Wii remote is easy and allows you to pick-up-and-play quite easily. There's just something fun about flying around, tapping the B button to unleash rocket-propelled little packs of doom onto anything in your path. Only problem, the game doesn't actually tell you how to play, so you're left flying around dumbly for a few minutes before you find the shoot and change targets buttons.

In the end, Heatseeker offers an afternoon of fun, but it's really only worth a rent in the end, because quite frankly, I haven't played the game for a full year and a half before today, the day I'm writing this review.