GamesRadar+ Verdict
Pros
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Controls are incredibly simple
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Arcadey feel
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Watching your squadmates drown
Cons
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Boring gameplay
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Over-the-top music
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Graphics could be hotter
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Carrying out acts of daring missions through the bright sunny skies is an attractively heroic concept, played out to a glorious fanfare reminiscent of Studio Ghibli’s superb flying pig movie Porco Rosso. Alas, in reality it has all the flying finesse of holding a plastic spoon full of baby food and faking plane noises to pilot it into a baby’s mouth.
The Wii remote handles like a miniplane in your hand; you dip the it, the plane dips instantaneously; you twist it, the plane twists instantaneously. Simple? Yes. Completely lacking any sense of aeronautical physics? You betcha. Compared to Pilotwings 64, where individual control-tweaking wouldn’t manifest as visible on-screen movements until your vehicle had physically adjusted itself within the air flow, this feels paper-thin.
More info
| Genre | Flight |
| Description | The challenge in most flight-based games is the unfriendliness of controls. By making the controls such a non-chore, Wing Island's already overly-simplistic missions are made even more redundant. |
| Platform | "Wii" |
| US censor rating | "Everyone" |
| UK censor rating | "7+" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
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