Deadly Creatures for Wii Reviews by Gamers

THQ and Rainbow Studios should be paying ME. I totally had this idea years ago. Oh well.

Deadly Creatures offers you the unique perspective of playing as a lifelike tarantula and scorpion. No anthropomorphism here; these guys are the real deal, or as close as you'll get to play in an existing video game.

You closely investigate their desert home fighting insects, lizards, and even a rattlesnake (so no, the cover ain't just bull). You may ask what's realistic about a tarantula taking on a rattlesnake, but without giving anything away, I assure you the encounter is awesome.

The levels can be a little repetitive for about the first half of the game, then we finally get some new settings. The environments are wonderfully detailed, and really give you the sense of what it's like to get around when you're that small. Occasionally, however, I found it nearly impossible to navigate without getting turned around or trapped. Fortunately you can hold down a button to bring up an arrow which points you in roughly the direction you should be headed.

Concerning the controls: the developers clearly wanted you to feel like were getting the most out of your bugs. As you progress you will gain more and more moves, which all, for the most part, involve pressing A then wiggling your wii mote around. The sensitivity is a little wonky so you end up pressing A repeatedly and flailing a lot, regardless of which character you are at the time, through most of the game.

The real highlight of the game for me was the story. It's a short and sweet tale of villainy in the desert. Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper are two lowlifes hunting for a treasure, starting with digging up a dead man. Always a good place to start.

As you crawl through the levels you get glimpses of the two, or hear their muffled words from below the ground. I was quickly caught up in their story, and wanted to see how it ended. An ending, which in my opinion, was a little too quick.