Escape from Bug Island for Wii Reviews by Gamers

They story isn't anything you haven't seen in any number of sci-fi movies, overgrown bugs attack. It picks up half way through when an certain occurs, but then falls back to bug bashing.
If you like to melee in games you may like this one as your best weapon at any given time (except the last boss) is your best melee weapon. You don't get a range weapon until much later and its not very useful in comparison.
I found the bosses to be far too easy, showing that it may be more suited to younger or less skilled players, but despite being easy, it was still a good fun game. I was able to beat the entire game in about 4 hours on my first play through, and that was completing all of the side objectives it gives you, ranging from destroying a certain number of boxes, collecting certain items or killing so many of a certain species in that level. It does have unlockables for your replay, much like the other games in this genre, so it does have some replay value. There are tons of recovery items all over the island, but i never had to use one playing on normal.
I think the best thing was not having to run back to any past location to unlock things, like you see in many games in this genre. You may get items for use in future areas, but you never have to go back to another area to use an item. THe game is very linear which adds to its ease of game play. You won't have to keep notes on where that door was that needed that key you got six areas later, for example.
I enjoyed the game enough to play it through and do the objectives, but not enough to play through a second time to beat the time ranking or try hard mode.