Makers of The Conduit to Release Evasive Space for Wii

by Jonathan Zungre on December 29, 2008 at 2:09 pm

High Voltage is the game developer behind The Conduit, the first person shooter many are hailing as the Wii’s salvation for hardcore gamers. But before they shock Wii users out of low graphical standards and poor first person shooter controls, they’re going to revolutionize they way people look at WiiWare with Evasive Space, releasing in January.

Evasive Space looks and feels in some ways very much like Asteroids, but with one big difference, the goal is not to shoot things but to evade things, as the game’s title suggests. In most levels, your goal is to barrel through tight underground caverns or zip around fireballs from the surface of the sun as quickly as possible, picking up time boosts and ship upgrades.

Controlling the direction of your ship with the Wii controller’s cursor is challenging at first but quite gratifying once you start zipping past underground drills or careening asteroids. The 20 different levels also offer up to 4 person local multiplayer.

Some other interesting space bits:

- Your spaceship computer will sometimes chime in to tell you that you have 10 seconds to complete a level, to which your character Konki will respond, “I’m aware of that, computer.” Hopefully their bantering can get even more entertaining as the game progresses.

- Each hit your ship sustains from an obstacle drains your health, but more importantly, slows you down in completing your time-based mission.

- The game’s basics, at least in the tight maze levels, are reminiscent the wood labyrinth puzzle games where you move a marble around holes in a maze by tilting the game board.

- You can upload your best times on Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Online leaderboards.