Product Description

SEGA`s smash arcade hit light-gun game, Ghost Squad, comes to the Wii and replicates the excitement of the arcade experience in your home!

The Ghost Squad is a Special Forces unit established in strict secrecy by the UN to combat terrorism and carry out special highly-classified missions without leaving a trace. As an elite member of the Ghost Squad, players will complete dangerous missions such as eliminating terrorist groups, releasing hostages, deactivating bombs, and even rescuing the US President when terrorists hijack Air Force One. Using the Wii Remote, players will utilise revolutionary selectable weapons including a high-powered rifle, submachine and shot gun, or even engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Wii Zapper Compatiable - NOT Included

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1468 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2008-01-18
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

SEGA's smash arcade hit light-gun game, Ghost Squad, comes to the Wiiâ„¢ and replicates the excitement of the arcade experience in your home!

The Ghost Squad is a Special Forces unit established in strict secrecy by the UN to combat terrorism and carry out special highly-classified missions without leaving a trace. As an elite member of the Ghost Squad, players will complete dangerous missions such as eliminating terrorist groups, releasing hostages, deactivating bombs, and even rescuing the US President when terrorists hijack Air Force One. Using the Wii Remoteâ„¢, players will utilise revolutionary selectable weapons including a high-powered rifle, submachine and shot gun, or even engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Customer Reviews

Short Squad
While lightgun shooter are always appreciated on Wii, Ghost Squad is much more fun in the arcades. This is solely due to the games length.
OK, effort has been made to increase longevity, with a detailed level up system to unlock additional costumes and weapons. High scores can be posted online, and alterante versions of the 3 missions are unlocked upon completion, with different routes and outcomes available. Theres a training mode, and a party mode etc.

But the arcade mode is completed in around 30 mins, (Mission 2 less than 5). It isnt much longer before almost everything is seen.
And theres only so long a 30 minute game can be played without getting bored.

Ghost squad is great for multiplayer, the graphics are functional and the shoting has a nicely old-school feel. Just dont play alone for very long.

Great fun but overpriced in the UK
Before I get onto the review, note that this game is $30 in the US so as usual UK players are getting ripped off. This is why it lost a star. Hold fire until you find it for under £20.

The game itself is great fun. Play alone or in co-op, gain points and unlock new outfits and guns. Every time you beat the end-of-level boss it raises the difficulty of that level the next time you play (up to level 15 I think). This changes the time of day, paths available and number of enemies encountered. You can play with the crosshairs turned off for more points if you're good and have calibrated your Wiimote properly.

There is also a party mode for 3-4 players in which you get to play through anything you've already unlocked and don't unlock anything else. There are also online scoreboards so you can compare your top score with everyone locally, in the UK or worldwide.

Recommended for everyone who doesn't have Wiimote pointing trouble as a great casual game for 30 mins at a time.

Sega arcade goodness for the wii zapper
Im a huge fan of light gun style games and enjoying the new life the Wii is giving this genre, so first resident evil umbrella chronicles was a fantastic game and now Ghost Squad and very much looking foward to House Of The Dead 2/3 Return in march.

For those of you that dont know what type of game Ghost Squad is it's a on rails shooting game so bascly the computer controlls where you go and when and leaves you to concentrate on blasting any bad guys jumping out although every now and then you will have to select a option on the screen telling the computer what direction you want to go in, so for instance in the first level you break through a door to a lodge then get to choose if you want to rescue hostages or provide cover for your team each option leads the level in to a different direction, choosing the hostage option you proceide down stairs and need to rescue a certian amount of hostages where as choosing the other option sees you moving along a balcony blasting bad guys and then dismantleing a bomb, there are number of options like this in each of the 3 levels so to see every thing you will need to go back and replay levels, a thing many games now days lack, replay value.

I never played Ghost Squad in the arcades, but there is an arcade port of it as one of the modes. You can have up to two players in the arcade mode, and up to four players in the "party" mode. I have played both with another player, and it was a blast to play. My cousin and I got a great blast out of accidentally killing hostages in the stages where the jump out like the enemies. The more you play through the game successfully, the more difficult the game becomes, and then you start to unlock new costumes and guns for you to be able to select prior to entering the game. That feature is different from many of the Time Crisis games I've played and is more than welcome.

Ghost Squad also has WiFi leader boards so once you compleate the game you can compare your score to other people in your regon or worldwide and it gives you something to aim at again inhancing its replay value.

The graphics in Ghost Squad are not the best avalible on the Wii but they certanly are not bad either so dont go buying the game expecting a visual feast, then again if you have a Wii and expect top graphics you should of probably done your homework before buying the Wii.

So there are a couple of controll methods for ghost squad, either using the Wii zapper(or gun shell alternative) or just the remote. If you use just the remote a target will appear on the screen so you can see what you are aiming at this is the method i have been mainly using for lightgun games on Wii and it works well for me. For those that want to use a gun attachment Ghost Squad allows you to calibrate the remote so you can use it like a light gun you can even make the on screen target dissapear to make it more like the arcade. Although the gun and calibration method works well there are a few issues with it, as the wii works via a senser bar above your tv onec you calibrate the controller you will need to sit in the same postion because if you move the senser will not beable to pick that up and aiming will then be off.

Closing comments

Ghost Squad is a short game but has plenty of replay value, multiple paths, co op modes and loads of unlockables if you are a fan of this type of game its a no brainer PICK IT UP.

i can also recomend it to casual gamers as well has more hardcore ones as although the game may be simple to pick up and play it is difficult to master and even more difficult to get to the top of the worldwide leader boards.