Wing Island
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is a flight simulator
video game for the Wii
. The game was developed by CAProduction and published in Japan and North America by Hudson Soft
. It was published in Europe and Australia by Nintendo
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. The player tilts the remote horizontally to turn, vertically to go up or down, and flick the Wii controller two times to the side to do a barrel-roll. If the player hits the ground, they will be stunned temporarily rather than exploding as is common in most flying games.
In addition to flying a single plane, players are also able to fly a squadron of planes, which are controlled simultaneously, in many formations.
Challenges include balloon popping, fire fighting, and cargo delivery.
The game also includes multi player mini game elements.
, as the two share some distinct similarities.
in Japan.
Flight simulator
A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and various aspects of the flight environment. This includes the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they react to applications of their controls and other aircraft systems, and how they react to the external...
video game for the Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
. The game was developed by CAProduction and published in Japan and North America by Hudson Soft
Hudson Soft
, formally known as , is a majority-owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation is a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. It was founded on May 18, 1973...
. It was published in Europe and Australia by Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
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Gameplay
It is played using the gesture system in the Wii RemoteWii Remote
The , also known as the Wiimote, is the primary controller for Nintendo's Wii console. A main feature of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via gesture recognition and pointing through the use of accelerometer and...
. The player tilts the remote horizontally to turn, vertically to go up or down, and flick the Wii controller two times to the side to do a barrel-roll. If the player hits the ground, they will be stunned temporarily rather than exploding as is common in most flying games.
In addition to flying a single plane, players are also able to fly a squadron of planes, which are controlled simultaneously, in many formations.
Challenges include balloon popping, fire fighting, and cargo delivery.
The game also includes multi player mini game elements.
Development
According to Hudson Soft, development on Wing Island was inspired by Nintendo's flight simulator PilotwingsPilotwings
is a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . It was developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division, led by producer Shigeru Miyamoto. The game was originally released in Japan on December 21, 1990, shortly after the launch of the SNES...
, as the two share some distinct similarities.
Reception
The game has received very poor reviews, with most on-line and magazine based reviewers giving the game under half marks. The game sold only 800 copies on December 2, 2006, the day of the Wii launchWii launch
The Wii launch was the release of Nintendo's seventh generation video game console. This successor to the Nintendo GameCube was released in most territories in November and December 2006...
in Japan.