Rango for Wii Reviews by Gamers

Rango the game (Wii) carries over the humor from the movie very well.

Though it may annoy some that they do that with extensive video cuts, the visuals and audio are still great! Just watch Rango's eyebrow twitch :)

The game is relatively short - I played through in a few hours.

You always play as Rango, and the play is about half movement (walk, run, jump, crawl, etc.) and half shooting - there is more shooting later in the game. It was enough that being out of practice my shooting hand cramped up fairly severely from wear. I should have tried a wii-gun accessory. Except 'A' is how you reload...

It is ALMOST always easy to know what to do next. There are few times when you can do anything except move forward. The short play time and this fact make it the perfect game for Gamefly renting!

I never got less than a perfect score on each level, so I don't know what you have to do to not do that. I know I didn't get all the sheriff stars on every level, so I think it is judged some other way.

There are no obvious saves - at the end of levels you can replay or continue. But if you die, you restart fairly recently. The only difference is the last boss battle.
Which is why I didn't finish the game - the last boss battle is more extensive than anything else, and they always make you start over. I gave it a few tries but decided it wasn't worth it.

I liked a lot of things about this game - though one thing in particular - the lack of difference between you running around and being in the shooting mode (which is automatic when to get to the right locations) is nil. Problem is that the shooting phase ends as soon as you've killed the last bad guy - which usually means you can't pick up any health as there is a pause after shooting and before you can move again. So: too smooth.

Oh: and reloading your gun takes FOREVER. It only automatically reloaded... 3 times my whole game, and usually sticks when trying to reload. Annoying.