Escape from Bug Island for Wii Reviews by Gamers

I'm not a big gamer, and so when I finally best this in 11 hours, I wasn't too upset with myself. The whole look to this game is dark, and you basically have to use the map to find your way around. You also have to follow through with some objectives that you may not care about in order to continue on with the rest of the game (which is annoying). What is most annoying, though, is this game looks easier to play than it is, meaning, it should seem fairly simple to execute the plan of action in order to do what you want, in the eyes of you and whomever else is watching (and that's when they start saying "Just do blah blah blah!" and you're like "I AM!"), but the game sometimes has a difficult time reading, responding, or behaving in the way that it should-- meaning that it had been programmed, which means you may be sitting there for some time doing the same thing over and over, with it not working, and then on the 42nd try, it DOES work.

Other than that, it was okay.

well, the game starts out with a corny story. then is fun for about 5 minutes of playing. i like the idea of the game, but it needs a lot of spice to be nice. rent this game for a young child, not an adult type of game.

..should at least give this one a try... and play it for more than an hour.

I'll try and keep this simple... Graphics: Merely ok; Controls: Good; Gameplay: Ok; Sound: Below average; Reply: Very low.

Once you get through the beginning areas, the game starts to pick up. I'm not a fan of "save points", but the game is easy enough that it doesn't matter. I love the survival horror genre and this works 'ok'. It's no Res. Evil, but it will hold your attention long enough to finish it.

It isn't the best game out there, but it's better than a lot of other Wii titles and I enjoyed it... for a while.

nerdy game bad buy

I do not have this game. Could you please send it

This game is low-budget happiness. The game is fun, and give it a try.

1 WORD.........SUCKFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i knew this was going to be bad, but it was even worse than i had imagined. graphics were average but the sound was really awful and we must never speak of the gameplay. Save the time and bang your head against the wall.

It was kinda of boring, kinda scary, took to long to find bugs to kill.

If you play this game with R.E. games in your head, you're going to be disappointed. But, if you're looking for a fairly easy survival horror game, this is a pretty good choice. The graphics and gameplay kind of remind me of the Dreamcast's Blue Stinger in many ways. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. It's a rental not a keeper.

First of all i think this game is horrible because you half to play has Ray who frowns a lot there are 2 other charters that you cant play has Mike and Michelle you the worst thing about this game is that it barley gives you hints the grphich are ok for nintendo the game play is awful but wat I do like about this game it tells you if your right handed or left my review is. U RULE GAME FLY

really this game is sooooo stupid. come on bug island. its like a 60s soap opera on drugs. onistly its likethe utter poo in my toilet

This game is pretty bad. The game doesn't seem like it was designed for wii. The controls are much to be desired. This is just a terrible game. Bad graphics too. Bad sound, bad voice overs. Overall...just terrible. Don't buy and don't even rent!

...and try the game for yourself. Well, that is your right to do so, but be warned.

The only thing in this game the appears to work right is it's ability to suck! Need more info, please read on.

Ok, I didn't get this game for the story. Good thing too because anything decent it may have had to offer was ruined by the terrible audio delays. By this I mean that you have to wait 5-8 seconds between each characters script. Blah.
Even this was about the best thing I can say about the story.

Gameplay:
OMG aweful!!! Resident Evil 1 had some challenging control issues and camera angels...yet I loved that game. I even thought Obscure was alright. But these chaps went a step backward by trying to make it innovative with the motion controller and failing miserably.

Look at the manual to see what I mean.

Also, you have to be right in line with an enemy to kill it and when you have 15 of them around you, you have to change your character placement little by little to make sure you are lined up correctly to slay the next beastie.
Not to mention you can't attack while moving.
Your character sticks to everything. Run into a tree, have to back up and turn around. Not lined up right with the stairs, have to back up turn around. And when I say turn around I don't mean just turn around. You have to follow a flight plan and maneuver your boat for a character around in a circle towards the direction you want to go.
Walk into a room and your controls are reversed due to the view angle. By the time I killed my 4th ape I decided I had enough.

They don't provide enough space to warn people properly about this game. I wasn't expecting much and still was blown away by how bad it was.

Much like movies, I find the beginning is very important in keeping the viewer from getting ancy and staying interested enough to pay attention.
This game starts with 3 people going to an island that is (knowingly) filled with insects that are of abnormal sizes to "study" them in hopes of yada yada yada.
The story starts with 2 guys and a girl sitting at a camp fire.
One Guy (Ray I think, {both drama queens}) holds a shotgun (just incase something bad tries to attack them.)
Everytime Mike or the girl are talking to Ray, he points the gun at them and u think the story is really about to pick up.
Apparently he's not actually pointing it but is just supposed to be fidgeting with it while talking.
Mike wants to ask the girl to be his BFF or something and Ray (knowing this) interrupts and asks her first. They were friends since before high school apparently and he goes and does something like that "because he didn't realize how great she was until you started talking about her".
I don't care if this game is meant for kids or the elderly. This story had me getting sick from the story from the get go.
After she runs off to 'think things over', you start in a VERY dark area with a stick as a weapon bumping into things in hopes they are an entrance or an item.
I met my first set of bugs, could barely attack them before feeling further sick and putting the game back in the sleeve to start my season of Metroid 3.
Much like 'Two Worlds' for the 360, this game has no business being on the Playstation 1, let alone the Wii.
Please heed my warning and stay away. I understand everyone’s into different genre's of games, but this one is no where in the ballpark where I can see even someone in Howard Sterns 'Wack Pack' enjoying it.
You're best bet is to buy an old NES game like Contra, Athena, or Bayou Billy instead of wasting 4 days for this game to arrive, realize how disgusting it is, and sending it back before the mailman leaves your block.

Despite the reviews I gave this a try; bad idea!

This game has the premis to be a killer app; but instead they took it from a drawing to animation and then did nothing to it and decide to release it!

This was a waste of a rental because you just basically point and click with a ton of dialoge.