Crossfire Pistol Elegantly Designed, but Misfires
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 4:20pm by Sean Buckley
Wii owners are long since familiar with the “Plastic Plague” of crappy gaming peripherals that have come our way.  Even Nintendo themselves are guilty, creating a plastic wheel, and the infamous “zapper,” both little more than plastic molds to cram your remote into.  For me, the former always left something to be desired – the official plastic shell places the trigger at the front of the weapon, and moves most of the remote’s buttons out of the player’s reach. Why didn’t they do a better job? Why doesn’t somebody else do a better job?
Well, somebody did. Sort of.
These days R.O.B. may be relegated to niche cameo character status in games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but it wasn’t always this way.
Ever since the Wii was released third party attachment and peripheral makers have been having a field day. If it’ll attach to your Wii remote, it’ll sell. If it’ll make you feel like the hero in the game while simultaneously making people question your mental faculties, it’s a hot item in the minds of third party peripheral and attachment makers. 