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| From: Sega
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 193
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: military-action-games
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
EAN: 5060138434370
ASIN: B000VQZDJ6
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New - SAMEDAY DESPATCH - Insured Delivery and 12 months Warranty
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Cheap & Decent Arcade Light-Gun Shooter + Extras April 26, 2008
MAK Ali (Bedfordshire, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pretty much a perfect copy of the GHOST SQUAD arcade game. You get the the main arcade mode with 3 missions (a hotel, airplane, and jungle base) with several areas to shoot through on each one. You'll make decisions on which path to take, so you will end up replaying levels to see everything. For those who struggle (or want to struggle) the game lets you turn on/off the targeting cursor, and has 3 difficulty levels.
It's best to play this game with a gun accessory. B buton is shoot and flicking the wiimote away from the screen will reload. The shooting is broken up by the odd mini-game event. Mostly holding the A button on a hostage to subdue them or pointing at a bomb wire and pressing A and other stuff. Also the bosses are played against in this way.
A nice feature to the main game, is the experience points system. Unlike older arcade shooters, there's more to the points from shooting bad-guys and being quick about it, these mount up and the more you get the more guns (with different behaviours and features), and costumes you can unlock (as well as a few bonus modes). You can play the main game with 1-2 players and there is also 4-player support in party games. The training mode is great (but short) for easing people into the game and is a good place to make sure you've setup your wiimote the way you wanted.
The sounds and music are a lovely (and cheesy techno) touch, that reminds me of old-skool shooters. The graphics are crisp, on a HDTV but they seem to look like a fuzzy PS2 game on a standard TV at 50Hz. And don't expect to much acting talent from the voice actors...
I played this game using the "Venom ShootActive Wii Gun Accessory". Compared to others I've used it is the best out there - others feel very front heavy (like they're tipping forward). It is far too awkward playing GS with just a wiimote in one hand, as you naturally point the wiimote at an upward angle.
A serious point though, if you get this game. When you point your wiimote normally at the screen you'll notice the cursor is slightly above/below where you're actually pointing (depending where your sensor bar is). Luckily the game lets you fix this...
It would be wise to put the wii sensor bar on top of the TV and set the wii settings. Then go to the in-game options and calibrate you wiimote (lining up the on-screen crosshairs with the top edge of the wiimote). This is a bit annoying, but it will save any aggro later when you realise your going to have to shoot at an angle to compensate for the cursors postion. It was a nightmare to shoot when the sensor bar was below the tv.
And for the hardcore, there's also the ability to submit your hi-scores via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
This is a worthwhile purchase on the cheap and with a wii gun accessory. A good blast with plenty of reason to stick at it for a while.
Fun while it lasts April 16, 2008
A. Driscoll (Merthyr Tydfil, Wales)
Ghost squad for Wii is a straight acrade conversion. This has upsides in that its a quick paced fun shooter that can be picked up and put down quickly, and downsides in that it's quite brief (ok not quite, it's brief!)
Unlockables add replay value to the main mission, as well as completeing all the different sections of the 3 main scenarios. Multiplayer is fun both in arcade and party mode (where some strange amendments can be made to the game... shooting scantily clad ladies with a water pistol...)
Gost Squad is ideal to pick up, have a quick game on then put down. If you're looking for a huge in depth experience... look elsewhere (maybe unbrella cronicles) if you want a quick blast, look no further!
 Ok for the arcade... too small for a console April 13, 2008
R. Wiltshire (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't help but feel screwed over by this release by SEGA especially since they released this before the house of the dead game, it was as if they knew this game wouldn't sell as well if house of the dead came out first.
With only 3 Levels with multi branching paths that add very little to the game, probably the most interesting editions that are not purely gimmicks is unlocking additional guns which genuinely effect gameplay because they handle differently (although the character models gun doesn't change lol) using an rpg style leveling up unlocking system and the 4 player party mode. If you have a lot of friends who will enjoy this kind of game on 4 player it will last a lot longer, but for everyone looking for something a bit deeper then that there's not much here to speak of.
It's not so much the fact that the game itself is bad, as an arcade lightgun title originally it does it's job. It's more a case of in terms of being a Wii game they could have easily fit more SEGA lightgun games on the disk to make it waaaay less short but they didn't, something like the virtual cop series on the same disk would made this game countless times better. Assuming if you played this in the arcade each life is 1 I barely got my moneys worth replaying through this over and over before I got bored of it, rent it first and if you still like it at the end then buy it
A GOOD OLD SHOOT UM UP March 6, 2008
M. I. Bentley (Cyprus)
If, like me, you enjoy blasting away at baddies without having to solve puzzles or look for items this is the game for you. No real tactics, just blast away. More fun if you have bought a gun. Only 3 levels but the do get progressivley harder once you have completed them and the more you play them the more options you have where you go. A very fun game to play and it gets my recommendation.
Did the game just disappear? February 27, 2008
JasnJules (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, I got the game yesterday, and I am severely disappointed in how limiting it is.. 3 whole scenes (I wished I read that before I spent 25) - it's fun to play, but I'm already bored. The maps are tiny, it doesn't take long to work out where the enemy are coming from, and the you are stuck with the gun you choose for all 3 maps in arcade, is pretty dull too. I'm happy for it to move along for me so all I do is shoot, but 3 whole maps!!??! Seems like there is only an hour or so worth of gameplay really.
The problem is I am comparing it to Resident Evil IV which has loads of maps, large maps, with all sorts of extras thrown in too, and lots of weapons to play with. And it took me 20 odd hours of gameplay to complete the first time. And I go back for more.
So, I'd say if you have 30 and don't know what to buy, get Resident Evil IV, quite frankly I've had Ghost Squad 36 hours and I'm thinking it belongs on ebay.
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