A good shooter but the fact that it is WiiWare makes it even that much better!

User Rating: 8 | Onslaught WII
This is a tough game to review. Does it meet up to Wii standards? On some levels it does. Does it meet WiiWare standards? Undoubtedly!

Gameplay: The gameplay is fun although slightly repetitive. You have thirteen missions to blast your way through. Each mission is 10-20 minutes long and the objectives are limited. Essentially you are either searching out and destroying insects and their hives, defending a base or something similar, fighting to get to a designated point on the map, or some combination of these. The enemies are not intelligent but they come at you in swarms and this is where the game gets its challenge. It took me just under 6 hours to get through the single player mode on the normal difficulty setting and there is online coop for up to four players as well.

Graphics: The graphics in this game are both good and bad. Your character and others animate well and the developers even threw in reload animations which was a nice touch. This is WiiWare though so the graphics are a little dated and not what you would get from a full scale Wii title. Having said that, they are some of the best graphics that I have seen on the WiiWare platform.

Sound: the weapons and other effects are great, the soundtrack is passable, but the announcer is annoying and should have been left out. If I hear "That's why your still a kid" again I swear I will throw my wiimote at the TV.

Controls: This is where the game shines. It controls great. The Wiimote and nunchuk work flawlessly and the action controls are near perfect. Aiming with the Wiimote was easy and I really liked the melee and grenade controls being mapped to the nunchuk and having to wipe the blood off your visor with a flick of the nunchuk was a nice touch as well.

In the end you get a decent if simplistic shooter that has great controls, decent sound and passable graphics. Considering this game cost me $10 just a month after its release, it's hard not to recommend it!