Product Description

In Wing Island you'll get to save the family aviation business. Become a wide-eyed teenager with the skill to fly -- and soar around Shell Island taking on jobs to keep the business flying. From dusting crops to more daring missions like aerial fire fighting, you'll use the Wii Remote to perform aerial acrobatics and learn to fly in formation, controlling a group of five planes at once.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6942 in Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Released on: 2007-03-20
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .24 pounds

Features

• Family friendly game for all ages, featuring a cast of colorful characters
• Use the unique controls of the Wii Remote to soar through the skies
• Engage in over 20 missions from racing and crop dusting, to fire fighting and stopping thieves from stealing treasure
• Earn money to unlock and upgrade a variety of new planes
• Compete against a friend in a collection of 2-player mini games

Customer Reviews

not very good
I rented this game and i am glad i didn't buy it. it has a very kid oriented cast of characters and look to the game play. its somewhat challenging with the controls which kind of makes you wonder why they made it geared towards kids with the difficulty level it has. the controls themselves aren't that great. too many things being based on remote movement and they don't respond like they are supposed to. for example to use a speed boost you thrust the remote forward and to brake fast you thrust it backward, yet when you try to brake the Wii senses like you are thrusting forward for some reason when you are not. took me quite a few tries in the training sessions to get the plane to brake. the game over all is just not fun. Later that day after playing this game i went and bought blazing angels for Wii. now that is a game to get if you like flying although it is a war game instead of some poorly done pilot wings ripoff like wing island. the controls in blazing angels are what flying games need to all base theirs on.

Promising controls marred by insane difficulty / inane setup
Let's be brief here.

1. Wing island is insanely difficult. The nice thing about flying in general is the sense of freedom. Wing island is like being beaten over the head with a relentless taskmaster. Expect to repeat missions 8 or 9 times simply because you've run out of time. It's that badly tuned.
2. Annoying / inane dialog. This is not just a reflection on the kiddy veneer over the game, but that the dialog, is long, empty, and annoying.
3. Broken rewards system. Great, you've finally found all those darned cows that are wandering around the island and you get... nothing. Successfully cleared some rubble from the docks? No pay for you.

On the positive side:

1. Flying formations, at least in theory, is kind of neat.
2. The controls could be kind of fun.

The sad thing is, with the solid control mechanism, Wing Island simply needed another tuning pass (and maybe a script overhaul) to be a lot of fun. As it stands, it's just another launch (ish) title that could have been better than it was.

Great game for flying ace kids
I got this game for my son's 7th birthday. It's challenging enough for him that it holds his interest, but not so difficult that he gives up in tears (although he has requested the aid of his big sister a couple of times). The story serves as a framework for a series of missions - finding cows, blowing up annoying rocks, etc.

My only complaint is that the Save option is buried in an Options menu, but you can turn on Auto-save (not enabled by default).