....The Bad Hype, That is. Heatseeker is Another Great Wii Game That Has Been Underrated By Gamespot's Reviewers.
• Gameplay:
“As mentioned earlier, you'll spend nearly all of your time in Heatseeker blowing things up. You'll use your unlimited ammo to shoot down hundreds of enemy planes, drop bombs on unsuspecting jeeps, unleash torpedoes on ships, as well as take out antiaircraft guns, tanks, a fortress, and more. You'll also be charged with protecting planes and ships, but to do so, you just blow up more bad guys. Once in a while, you'll need to scan vessels to find out if they're up to no good, and if they are—you guessed it—you blow them up. The biggest problem with Heatseeker is that its gameplay is repetitive. It's also not particularly original either.”
Your enemies are a bunch of well supplied, well trained terrorists bent on world domination! How else are you supposed to stop them? Sure, it is a little repetitive, but at least they have a purpose for all of the destruction. At least it’s not mindless bloodshed. What’s also amazing is that they actually liked the controls! Oh, wait:
“When you get down near the ground, the controls are just touchy enough to cause problems.”
In a real plane, when you get close to the ground the controls are just touchy enough to cause problems.
• Graphics:
Ugh, here we go:
“Other than some nice-looking clouds and a solid frame rate, there isn't much to look at in Heatseeker. The levels are large, but they're mostly empty, and what is there is ugly. Buildings are little more than blocks, while the ground is an ugly, poorly textured mess. The planes look OK, but other than your craft, you won't get much of a chance to look at them. Explosions aren't bad, but the "impact cam" that shows them off via a quick movie-style replay after a hit gets annoying quickly. Both the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions have a widescreen setting, but the Wii looks slightly better thanks to some antialiasing and cleaner textures.”
I have to agree, the ground looks really bad. But the planes, explosions, and effects look great! And besides, you shouldn’t be looking at the ground while there are planes trying to shoot you down. The PS3 this ain't, so the graphics are not going to be amazing anyway.
• Sound:
“Heatseeker sounds about as good as it looks. The voice acting is amateurish at best and horribly obnoxious at worst. Even if the voice actors were good, it wouldn't have made it any more fun to get yelled at by your commanding officer and wingmen all the time. The cheesy guitar rock that plays in the background during each mission would have been perfect…if this were 1985.”
The voice acting is bad, and your CO does sound like Stephen Colbert, but the explosions, jets, and other sound effects are, again, about as good as you can get. And the music, well, the guitar rock, however cheesy, does go well with the action, and fits the game well. And if you really don’t like it, you can mute it!
• Overall:
This is a better game than they give it credit for. Despite its repetitiveness, the game is still very fun to play. The graphics could have been better, but it’s not too bad. And despite some bad voice acting, the sound effects and music are great.