You'll be using a combination of the B button and remote movements to tell your dog where to go to retrieve the duck, while the B button alone makes him stop. The worst part of the controls, though, is reserved for dog commands. The motion controls for reloading are pretty flaky, so reliance on the Z button for that action is a must. Wii gamers used to having first-person controls where the remote helps you turn will be taken aback by the change.
The analog stick on the Nunchuk is used for character movement, which is fine until you realize that it's the only way to move. The A button is used to zoom in, and the 1 button is used to move in and out of shooting mode. The shooting isn't so bad, as you simply aim with the Wii Remote and use the B button to fire. The controls feel too basic and unresponsive at times. With all of these flaws, it's highly doubtful that you could get someone to play any multiplayer games with you. The various duck calls don't seem to have much of an effect in terms of bringing the flocks closer, so hunting is a crapshoot at best. Aiming at a duck is harder than it should be, and those without any patience will simply shoot away at any flock they see until they happen to get lucky. As for the hunting itself, it ends up being boring. Worse yet, the dog can't be imported to another mode so you essentially have him level up for no good reason. You simply hunt down ducks so that your dog gets better at retrieving them. You don't go to a duck hunting championship or have a story about how you want to become the best duck hunter in the nation. Career mode seems to be nothing more than a way to power up your dog, and it's the only reward for hunting down ducks.
#DUCK HUNTING GAMES FOR WII MOVIE#
You can immediately tell upon booting up the game that things will go south in the quality department, especially when the opening movie makes the game less exciting to play. Single Hunt mode gives you the same experience without the dog training parts, while multiplayer has you and a friend competing for who can retrieve the most ducks in a given amount of time. Experience gained from the hunt can then be used to level up your dog's abilities so that the animal can be a better and more efficient retriever. Once you down a duck, you can tell your dog to retrieve the bird. Hunting down ducks isn't a simple point-and-shoot affair, though, as you have to carefully place some lures and use different calls to coax them out of hiding. Once you complete your initial training, you can go to one of six hunting areas to shoot down some ducks. Career mode has you training your dog to be a better retriever of fallen ducks. Ultimate Duck Hunting provides you with a few modes. Alas, all they've done with this title is add fuel to the fire for a proper Nintendo release. Zoo Games and Digital Octane have sought to fill that void with the release of Ultimate Duck Hunting. However, the closest Nintendo has come to doing so was a mini-game inclusion in Wii Play that had the same clearing but involved floating targets instead. When the Wii was first announced, nostalgic gamers were frothing at the sight of what looked to be a redesigned Zapper peripheral mostly because it could bring them one step closer to a Duck Hunt sequel. While it didn't get as much play time as its companion, it was a fondly remembered game for its simplicity, use of the plastic NES Zapper peripheral, and the faithful hound that would snicker every time you let the fowl get away. Ask about their second game, and the answer would be the other pack-in game, Duck Hunt. Not only was it a masterpiece that every console owner had to own, but it was also one of the two games packed in with the system when sales of the console really started to pick up steam.
Ask anyone who had an original NES console in their youth about their first game, and nine times out of 10, the first answer you'll get is Super Mario Bros.