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Spy Games: Elevator Mission

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This mission has no code. My own attempt at an homage to this classic Elevator Action arcade flyer

I cannot think of another major console which lent itself so naturally to first-person shooters as the Nintendo Wii. In spite of whatever technical shortcomings the hardware may have faced, you can't take away how intuitive the Wiimote worked as an analog for a firearm. Unfortunately, the Wii is not remembered as much for forwarding my favorite genre as it is for enabling so much shovelware: For every gem like Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, there were two TV game show adaptations, three licensed kart racers, and a half dozen mini game compilations there to “balance things out.” Of course, as a purveyor of bad games, these shovelware games had their own appeal to me as well.

On occasion though, these two worlds would collide into one another, and leave fascinating bits of digital debris in their wake: Shovelware FPS titles. I was a connoisseur of the “Chicken Trilogy” (Chicken Blaster, Chicken Riot, and Chicken Shoot), prospector of the Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack, and an unfortunate victim of Target: Terror. But there was one holy grail that had eluded me in the time before I ultimately bricked my original console -- a game I had heard legends about, but was unable to track down and try for myself.

I’ve heard several folk put forward the claim that 2007’s Spy Games: Elevator Mission might possibly the worst game released for the Wii. That's quite the claim, considering some of the competition for that dubious distinction. My assignment: To determine whether or not Elevator Mission is a contender for that title, and to try and figure out where the game went wrong.