Pitfall: The Big Adventure for Wii Reviews by Gamers

Oh how I wanted to like this game. I loved the old pitfall on the atari 2600. So I was really excited when this game came out.

Then I tried the game. Wow! Bad just seems like an understatement. I don't know which is worse- the camera or the controls

The controls are horrid. 1 slight movement of the wii remote- and I mean slight -will cause your camera and your character to jump in opposite directions. Even just moving your fingers while holding the remote will cause your direction to change. Your guy will swing in directions that you don't want them to go. Jumping is almost impossible in some areas.
The control set up is really awkward. Some of the buttons and remote swings that they require you to do- cause cramps in your hand and don't feel right.

The camera is really awful. Like the controls- the camera just randomly swings around making jumping and vine catching a real pain. There is an option to center the camera behind the character, but it never really centers properly and it only does it for a split second. The camera also tends to cause motion sickness for me because of the way it moves. You can also try to look ahead but you can never tell how close or how far you are away from vines. That leads to a ton of deaths by over shooting or under jumping to them.

Both the controls and the camera result in massive amounts of cheap deaths and restarts.

The game is a port of the old gamecube game: pitfall the lost expedition. It is playable on the wii and it is a much better choice than this version. The graphics are about the same as the gamecube version as well.

This title is just really disappointing. If they spent more time on the controls and camera- it would have been a fun game. Don't waste your time on this one. Try the older gamecube version.