High Voltage opens The Conduit

The Conduit will center on a “conspiracy-laden story” involving shady government shenanigans and “terrifying aliens.” Players will portray Ford, a Secret Service agent armed with an array of futuristic weaponry and aided by a Sauron-esque intelligence-gathering device simply called the “All-Seeing Eye.”

Though The Conduit’s story sounds reminiscent of Deus Ex and The X-Files, High Voltage is hoping its technology will be truly groundbreaking. Using its self-developed Quantum 3 engine, the studio is hoping to dispel the perception that Wii games are visually substandard when compared to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The Conduit is also notable for the fact that it is one of a somewhat rare breed: a Wii first-person shooter. Its developers are touting the fact that they are aiming to avoid the pitfalls that have befallen some previous first-person shooters for Nintendo’s console, which is best known for its party games and host of first-party titles.

“Too many Wii owners have been told that the Wii is a casual platform with no room for serious games or top-tier graphics,” High Voltage Chief Creative Officer Eric Nofsinger said in a statement. “With The Conduit, we intend to prove that theory wrong by providing gamers with the kind of title they imagined back when the platform was first announced.”

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  • http://wiinintendo.net/ hattrick

    Sweet! I’ve not really been into these games since Goldeneye, but I know so many people are. Heck if it ends up being that good, maybe I’ll even get back into FPS’s again. About time something like this pops up on the Wii (especially with boosted graphics). I hope it’s as good as their wanting it to be.

  • berend jan

    Yeah it looks nice but it looks boring also, i don’t think it is setting the standard gameplay wise.

  • InfDaMarvel

    The graphics looks like a POS to me. They really are just making people think the Wii cant do more with all this Boosted Graphics BS. Lies on top of Lies.

  • http://wiinintendo.net/ hattrick

    Ya know…I think people could look past graphics and “boring” if it were Wi-Fi compatible. So no matter what, they should make it online.

  • nintendog66

    hey_suburbia, you forgot the online play part. It has been confirmed, look it up on IGN.

  • Mc Mata

    In what ways does it look boring and the graphics do look great for the wii……

  • Scorpio

    The visuals will be enough, I have confidence in the development objective; you have to factor in a) wii controls and b) online play that is c) for free.