While the game itself functions fine and it isn’t innately offensive in terms of aesthetics, the biggest flaw of Deer Drive Legends is that it’s just plain boring. The environments and animals populating them are designed well and look really great for a WiiWare game, but there’s not much to look at as the staging area is so small. Despite the variety in locales, each stage is remarkably similar, consisting of a singular stagnant area that is barely larger than your television's screen. These are the arenas in which you fight for your life, fending off the advances of an unexpected - and sometimes extinct - beast. Most of the stages contain the standard animals that one might expect form a hunting game, ranging from deer and squirrels to wolves and gazelle, but the game's excitement comes from the final stages in any given section. Upon finishing a stage, the next is unlocked, and completing all five stages in a section will open up a new area on the map such as the Rocky Mountains or the European Forest. Both control schemes work well, and the frame rate issues prevalent in the 3DS version making it difficult to get a good shot in are non-existent here, making for a smooth experience that does well to reflect the arcade experience.ĭelving right in, the world map in Deer Drive Legends is divided up into four sections, each containing five stages within. You also have the option of plugging a Nunchuk into your Wii Remote which allows for an alternative way to pan the camera, so more focus can be placed on using the Wii Remote strictly to guide your aiming reticle. Aiming towards the edge of the screen will shift the camera, panning left or right to reveal what little else of the environment exists. B shoots, A reloads, and pressing the + button allows you to use your scope, depending on the equipped rifle. Like any good light gun game on Nintendo's last-gen console, this one is controlled with a Wii Remote pointed at the television screen. This game is actually just a downloadable port of a bargain bin title that was released at retail this time last year, and it’s mostly identical to the 3DS version as well. Don’t worry though this isn’t anything new at all. After nearly nine months of silence, a new title emerges from the depths of Maximum Games's back pocket and lands squarely on the WiiWare service as Deer Drive Legends, the light gun shooter that you probably haven’t been waiting for. There’s a new WiiWare game available in North America.

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