Water Warfare

Nintendo exclusive

A kid friendly "first-person soaker" for WiiWare, in which you shoot water guns courtesy of Hudson Soft.

Released: 23 June 2009
Platforms: Wii
Genres: First-person shooter Light gun shooter Shooter
Developers: Hudson Soft
Publishers: Hudson Soft
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB E10+
Languages: English

About

Water Warfare, known in Japan as Bang Bang Kids (バンバン☆キッズ, Ban Ban☆Kizzu), is a first-person shooter video game by Hudson Soft for WiiWare. It is the second game in the genre to be released by Hudson Soft for WiiWare (after Onslaught).

Involving combat with water guns, Hudson has described the family friendly game as a "first-person soaker", which holds up Hudson's core design philosophy that prohibits explicit violence between people playing a game.

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Gameplay

Along with replacing firearms with water guns of several types (such as water firing machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket launchers), the game also replaces grenades with water balloons, armor with raincoats, and health bars with wet T-shirts, with health regenerated as the shirt dries in the sun or by the player picking up a towel. The water guns are refilled via drinking fountains situated around each level, with the game featuring 8 maps set amongst nature parks, beaches, playgrounds and a Venetian city.

The game features split-screen multiplayer for 2 players and online multiplayer for up to 8 players. Six multiplayer modes are featured including Battle Royale (survival), Deathmatch, Treasure Chest (capture the flag), a team-based Assault mode and Point Rally (race). The game also features a 38 mission long single player campaign, a spectator mode and bots to play against.