Wing Island

Nintendo exclusive

Take to the skies with Wing Island, the first flight action game for the Wii. As Junior, a wide-eyed teenager with incredible piloting skills, soar around Shell Island taking on jobs to keep your family aviation business running. From dusting crops to more daring missions like aerial fire fighting, players will use the Wii Remote to perform aerial acrobatics and learn to fly in formation, controlling a group of 5 planes at once.

Released: 2 December 2006
Platforms: Wii
Genres: Flight simulation Simulation
Developers: CAProduction
Publishers: Hudson Soft Nintendo
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB E PEGI 3 CERO A USK 0 ACB G
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Spain)

About

Wing Island (ウィングアイランド, Wingu Airando) is a flight simulator video game for the Wii. The game was developed by CAProduction and published in Japan by Hudson Soft, Konami in North America, and in Europe and Australia by Nintendo.

›Story

The stars of the game are five birds whom fly planes, with the main protagonist being Junior, according to the Konami website. Some have wondered why the birds, who can already fly, are flying planes, though it was probably made for comedy purposes

Keywords

flight simulator
flight
polygonal 3d
launch titles

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

It is played using the gesture system in the Wii Remote. The player tilts the remote horizontally to turn, vertically to go up or down, and flick the Wii controller two times to the side to do a barrel-roll. The aircraft is indestructible and even hard crash-landings will only cause a temporary loss of control.

In addition to flying a single plane, players are also able to fly a squadron of planes, which are controlled simultaneously, in many formations.

Development

According to Hudson Soft, development on Wing Island was inspired by Nintendo's flight simulator Pilotwings, as the two share some distinct similarities.

Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one five, two sixes, and one five for a total of 22 out of 40.

The game sold only 800 units on December 2, 2006, the day of the Wii launch in Japan.