Released last year on Wii, The Conduit was a generic shooter with great controls. I’ll let you decide if that’s worth your time or not. But that all changes with the Conduit 2, boasts Sega. This time the game will be 100% less generic!

When approaching art direction for Conduit 2 we’ve made sure never to build anything into our game that we ourselves aren’t completely excited about making.  And unlike the first game (which had limited concept art), practically every location in Conduit 2 was conceptualized, and then those designs have been scrutinized and reworked, until we truly believe that we are choosing the most inspired locations for our game. We’re designing spaces that players will want to fight in! And we’re not restricting ourselves to one city in a single part of the world. Conduit 2 spans the entire globe, and we have created far more interesting locations as battlefields for our game.

Noble intentions, yes. But that screenshot doesn’t look all that original.

Not a bad week at all with The Conduit, Resident Evil for Wii, and Overlord coming out. Click on in for the full mega-list!

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Don’t believe the hype.

I played The Conduit’s multiplayer mode this week at E3 and was underwhelmed to say the least. I don’t remember the single player mode moving this slow, but multiplayer plays as fast as Mario trudging through thick honey. Keep in mind, I cut my teeth on the ultra fast Unreal Tournament, but The Conduit moves noticeably slower than even Halo. It was a major buzz kill.

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Hey Nintendo – pictured above is the WiiSpeak peripheral that came with Animal Crossing six months ago.  Can you please release another game that uses it?  Or maybe talk to one of your eager 3rd party developers about it?  Apparently The Conduit will use it, but The Conduit can also apparently grant wishes and emits a delightful floral scent.  So anyway, please, WiiSpeak works great … please use it for something else!

There are a decent variety of shooters, but I distilled them down to four essential types.  First-person shooters (FPS) like Sega’s upcoming The Conduit, on-rails shooters like House Of The Dead Overkill, Shoot ‘em ups (SHMUPS) like Gradius ReBirth, or scrollers like Metal Slug 7.

Vote and then tell us which game is your favorite shooter in comments!