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A few years ago, Target Terror was released in arcades hoping to bring back some of the life found in titles like Area 51, Mad Dog McCree, and many other light gun shooters of the like. Unfortunately they must have gotten out of their time machine a decade too late as this game, which release in 2004, felt like something from 1994! With today's technology and use of special effect, you figured the developers would have found ways to innovate and elevate this genre into the evolution chain. Alas, Target Terror could easily be mistaken for an old school coin op shooter as it does nothing new to create a buzz or bring this genre back from the dead. Now with the Wii not only revitalizing old Dreamcast titles to the masses, I guess Konami figured this system would be perfect to port Target Terror to. I know that the Wii is bringing gamers back who haven't played in years, but do we really have to wean them back into gaming with games that feel 15 years old? Of course, release a title like this isn't the only bad thing about Target Terror, the real threat here is the price tag of 40 bucks! Not only should this game retail for no more than 20 dollars, it could honestly fit on the upcoming Wii Ware channel.
Visually the game is exactly as you remembered this genre to be, digitized characters, most likely programmers, dressed in "bad guy" outfits trying to duck behind crudely drawn backdrop in order to get a bead on your before you blow them away. Audio is just as cheesy with horrific voice overs, b-movie caliber music score, and sound effects that are only good when muffled by the noise of the other arcade machines around it. Unfortunately for you, this game is being played at your home. While light gun games can lend themselves to some fun times, albeit short ones, the accuracy of the Wii controls just don't cut it. Your cursor is shaky, misses shot opportunities, and what's worse doesn't give you a chance to calibrate the aiming hot spots. If you can get by the sloppy controls, you do have plenty of weaponry at your disposal such as pistols, shot guns, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, and more that will hilariously destroy any foe who pops their head on screen. Like most arcade games, Target Terror is a short lived affair, which makes the price tag even that much more insulting. You have 10 levels that last about 10 minutes each, and even the mini games, while funny, don't give you more entertainment value that a low budget Uwe Boll film! While it's no secret that I'm not the biggest fan of the majority of the Wii titles that come out, Target Terror is not only a black mark on the system, but for the brilliant name Konami. Nevertheless, Target Terror is here and if you buy it, the Terrorist have already won.
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