Product Description

Designed to be an incredible lock-on/shake-off experience, Heatseeker reinvents missile combat to give gamers a massive rush of destruction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3149 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters Limited
• Released on: 2007-03-30
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .32 pounds

Manufacturer's Description:
Designed to be an incredible lock-on/shake-off experience, Heatseeker reinvents missile combat to give gamers a massive rush of destruction. featuring an incredible collection of current and near-future military fighter jets, Heatseeker’s arsenal includes the stealthy F-22 Raptor, the classic F-15 Eagle, the cutting-edge F35 Lightening II, and the aerodynamically advanced Russian SU-47 Berkut.

If you like fast and furious action and blowing everything in sight to bits, then Heatseeker is a dream come true. Expect the greatest military aircraft armed to the teeth with the latest hardware, big explosions, great smoke trails, and gung-ho heroics.

Heatseeker straps you into the pilot’s seat and delivers an exhilarating white-knuckle ride that’ll have you clutching the joypad. Engage in face-melting 6G turns and fight against a seemingly-impossible amount of airborne enemies. And when you launch a strike, you’ll follow your missiles as they ruthlessly home in on their targets via the Impact Cam. Delivering awesome cinematic 3rd-person camera cutaway scenes, the Impact Cam reveals the results of your attack in all their devastating glory from all kinds of dynamic angles, complete with jaw-dropping explosions and smoke trails.

With missions across the US, down to the Caribbean, across Antarctica and into the Far East, it’ll be high-velocity combat all the way that’ll see you constantly switching from predator to prey as an enemy missiles lock on.

Throughout the game’s campaigns, you’ll need to prove your right to fly with the best. Are you good enough to advance ahead of your fellow pilots and stay top? Can you throw your aircraft to the floor, twist and turn, and punch out counter measures as you pull as many Gs as necessary to out-manoeuvre the missile? Basically, are you good enough to stay alive?

Heatseeker is a joint development project between Codemasters and IR Gurus, the Australian studio behind the acclaimed historic air combat title, Heroes of the Pacific.

Customer Reviews

Seeking to turn on the heat?
Heatseeker is a decent diversion of your time, but it's not the type of game that will go down in history as a classic. The controls can go from awesome as you fly around with ease picking off hudreds of enemies, to frustrating as the cursor leaves the screen and you struggle to redirect your aircraft before plumeting to your death.

The game is simple, decently interfaced and exciting in heavy combat, but the criminal non-inclusion of multiplayer or even online dogfights will be this game's big downfall for years to come. It would have been a five star game easily had this been included.

On it's individual merits however, it is an enjoyable game, well implemented for the Wii remote, but can be occassionally frustrating when the controls fail you.

A 'good' game but no sparkle.
Heatseeker is not a flight simulation game it is a shooter, pure and simple. Control and game play wise it is fairly similar to the original Rogue Squadron on the N64, which is a good thing as that was a great game. The levels are as varied as a game involving jet planes allows but that doesn't seem to matter as it is just so fun to play you won't really care that the objectives for each mission vary very little. The main thing is that you have to blow up lots of enemies, and when I say lots, I mean lots and lots. And as you progress through the game you'll be able to gain a little extra variety from all the different jets that you'll be unlocking.

The Wii controls for this game are pretty smart; they are responsive and on the whole fairly intuitive meaning that you'll never be struggling for control of the plane. There are one or two additional moves that you'll have to try a bit harder with but there isn't anything revolutionary going on here just competent accessibility. The graphics can be described in the same way; they are competent, even good in places but nothing revolutionary.

The main let down is that this game is single player only. There is no multiplayer mode, and the Wii online network wasn't up and running when the game was released so it has no online play. It's a shame because the game play really is good clean fun and would have been great on the multiplayer stage.

Overall this is a good game that you will have fun and excitement with but absolutely nothing deeper than that; once you have completed all the missions there won't be anything to make you want to keep the game any longer.

You are Mike "Downtown" Hudson...but who cares about that?

Boasting an impressive range of ships to fly, weapons to fire and enemies to blow up - really, need I say more?

Well, yes, I suppose, some things should be cleared up. First of all, the controls: what with so many Wii games struggling to get the most out of the Wii remote without being fidgety or gratuitous, I'm happy to note that Heatseeker gets it more-or-less right. You may (as I did) struggle a little to get to grips with steering, but once you do you'll find it handles pretty well. Happily, aiming and firing is a piece of cake. The difficulty curve is spot-on, the enemies come at you in ridiculously large numbers and the feeling of taking out one or all of them is always satisfying.

Secondly, the graphics: though not spectacular, the graphics are clear and functional enough for you to forget about them if you, like me, don't actually care that much. There's a very nice impact camera that sometimes, at random, activates itself after you destroy an enemy, giving you a very nice Hollywood-style view of the carnage you just created. If you'd rather not have that interruption while you're playing, or you grow bored of it, it can be turned off and on at the menu.

Thirdly, the story: it's ludicrous, over-the-top, comically voice-acted and unimportant in enjoying the game...exactly as it should be, I feel. Cut-scenes are easily skipped and the story is easily ignored, but for what they are (dumb) they're enjoyable.

Ultimately, though, I find Heatseeker an entertaining diversion, but very hard to get excited about. If you're into this kind of aerial warfare game, however, add another star to my score and trust me - you will like this game. Sadly, it's just not my cup of tea.