This game is absolute trash. The controls are so poor that it couldn't have passed for a good N64 game.

User Rating: 2.5 | Rapala Tournament Fishing! WII
By zelkien | Review Date:
When I first purchased my Wii I was more excited about it than the PS3, which I also own. One of my first comments after playing Zelda and seeing the fishing portion was that a fishing game would be incredible. Take into account that I do not fish, but I've enjoyed the genre since the Dreamcast. I'm not going to spend a lot of time going over every aspect of the game so heres a quick rundown. Slow load times, awkward interface with menus, incredibly poor graphics, driving the boat is like steering a Mario Cart except out in the open with nothing to interact with. Now onto the bread and butter or better yet crumbs and soured milk of the game, the fishing portion. Once again the graphics take all belief that you are really fishing away. The characters look horrible as well as the 2D grass and enviroment. Casting with the controller is a chore and only seems to work properly, with delay, half the time. Once casted your lure will simply sit in the water a couple or so feet below the surface. No reallity whatsoever. Catching a fish is a bore as there is no intuitive interface and once again all of you actions are delayed. After fighting with the fish, if you can call it that, the "netting" of the fish does not seem like a good interface either. You aim a small net at the screen in what appears to be a radar screen with a small oragne fish. It seems very hit or miss as to if it evens matters when you hit the button to net the fish. The game just decides on it's own. Rapala Torture Fishing is a poor example of a N64 game. The only thing they can boast is that they released thee first fishing game. Stay away because the graphics, sound, interface, and gameplay all lack any polish.

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