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It's "Mild Earth: African Safari"
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Apr 30, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
6 out of 8 gamers (75%) found this review helpful
WILD EARTH: AFRICAN SAFARI is an interesting twist on the shooting game. Instead of shooting weapons at your targets, you are taking pictures of the targets, mostly animals doing what they naturally do about Africa.
Each of the 11 stages play out the same way: you go from point A to point B. Along the way, a ever changing list of objects or animals appears on the screen, and you have to find those animals or objects and take pictures. There's a set number of pictures you have to take each stage in order to pass it.
If you get too close too the animals, the game warns you. Do it too often, you'll have to restart the assignment.
The controls are for the most part easy. You walk about using the thumb stick, scan through the area with the Wiimote, zoom in and out and snap your shot using the buttons.
However, driving the car gets very tough because the car bumps too much and it's too easy to lose your bearings. That's a minor problem.
A major problem this game has is its graphics. To put it bluntly, this game looks putrid. The animals don't look nearly like their real life counterparts (the vultures look like feathers attached to poles and a wire frame.) The scenery is bland and the action is toned down in the wrong way.
There are many times during the game where we spot a carnivore capture its prey, then it pokes its nose at the prey, and the game says the predator is "eating." Doesn't look like that to me.
A second problem is content. I got though all 11 missions in less than six hours, and I have no desire to play them a second time.
A final problem is the mini games you unlock after every successful photo shoot. These mini games feel like an after thought; they weren't fun and the controls were clunky.
If you're into nature, I'd suggest you check out PBS, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, a nature documentary on DVD, or for the best of the bunch, the DVD collection named PLANET EARTH. You'll get more about African wildlife than here.
Each of the 11 stages play out the same way: you go from point A to point B. Along the way, a ever changing list of objects or animals appears on the screen, and you have to find those animals or objects and take pictures. There's a set number of pictures you have to take each stage in order to pass it.
If you get too close too the animals, the game warns you. Do it too often, you'll have to restart the assignment.
The controls are for the most part easy. You walk about using the thumb stick, scan through the area with the Wiimote, zoom in and out and snap your shot using the buttons.
However, driving the car gets very tough because the car bumps too much and it's too easy to lose your bearings. That's a minor problem.
A major problem this game has is its graphics. To put it bluntly, this game looks putrid. The animals don't look nearly like their real life counterparts (the vultures look like feathers attached to poles and a wire frame.) The scenery is bland and the action is toned down in the wrong way.
There are many times during the game where we spot a carnivore capture its prey, then it pokes its nose at the prey, and the game says the predator is "eating." Doesn't look like that to me.
A second problem is content. I got though all 11 missions in less than six hours, and I have no desire to play them a second time.
A final problem is the mini games you unlock after every successful photo shoot. These mini games feel like an after thought; they weren't fun and the controls were clunky.
If you're into nature, I'd suggest you check out PBS, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, a nature documentary on DVD, or for the best of the bunch, the DVD collection named PLANET EARTH. You'll get more about African wildlife than here.
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