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Nintendo Wii | 5 Reviews
The Strike combines authentic environments based on real lakes, engaging gameplay with accurate fish and lure behaviors, and a highly interactive fishing pole controller that allows players an immersive fishing adventure. Players can enjoy 3 different game-play modes including Quick Fish, Career and Bass Pro Shops Invitational Tournament, or compete with friends in mini games like boat races and casting challenges. The lifelike fishing pole peripheral lets the player cast, jig, set the hook, and fight as if a real fish were on the other end of the line. The game takes players to some of North America’s most famous fishing hot spots and features eleven types of game fish including Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Striped Bass as well as Northern Pike and Muskie. In addition, realistic lake bottom topography, real-time time–of-day light effects, advanced graphics, and authentic fishing gear from the Bass Pro Shops stores, all combine to offer virtual anglers the most comprehensive fis... More >>
- Fishing Rod Controller: Whether casting, jigging, setting the hook, or reeling a fish in, players will be amazed by the sensitivity and feedback their fishing rod controller provides.
- Four modes of entertaining and competitive gameplay. The Strike is perfect for quick and friendly competitions with up to 4 players.
- Ten of North America's greatest lakes are depicted, so players can easily recognize key landmarks and find their favorite fishing spots.
- The Strike features a large variety of fresh water fish, including Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Striped Bass, Walleye and more. Each lake contains a legendary fish of record proportions that will challenge even the best players.
- Players can tailor their equipment by going to the Bass Pro Shops in-game store to select lures, rods and reels. Players can also win new boats by winning tournaments.
Buy Bass Pro Shops: The Strike Bundle with Fishing Rod Now! for $49.99
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December 4th, 2009at (#)
I have had 2 copies of Bass Pro Shops: The Strike and both games will not load into the Wii game system. I checked onther games and no problem.
The worst problem of all is that there is no support anywhere to find a solution to this loading problem. Nothing at the Bass Pro Shops web site, nothing at the game developers web site.
I have returned the copy I purchased from Amazon.
Great looking game, extremely poor launch of the game.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 4th, 2009at (#)
Had the chance to play the Bass and the Rapala, the Bass is really bad, the controller looks cool but its not much use, the game play is nice but little slow, Like the Rapala more for the interaction and just a better overall game. I’m surprise this game is even selling with the remote as it is a really bad design.
Rating: 2 / 5
December 4th, 2009at (#)
The casting will take you sometime at first to master it. Once you do its a breeze. I like the the tension meter, fish finder and how accurate the fight for each fish is. I was use to catching smallmouth bass and than a 52lb striper latched on. The fight, time to reel it in was a nice change in pace.
Rating: 4 / 5
December 4th, 2009at (#)
I know this is a small complaint on an overall excellent game. without the reel, I’d rate the game one star because pressing the B button to reel in a fish really is BORING. to bring up the correct configuration for the peripheral you must use the controller B configuration.
Casting: Casting out the line in my opinion is the best part of the game. It takes a while to gain proper technique for a perfect cast.
Finding the fish: To find the fish you must use the fishfinder, which is also really neat. that button is on the nunchuck device. trust me, without the reel, this game is horrible, with the reel it’s awesome.
The gameplay: So you’re in the water looking at all of the beautiful plants looking for fish. actually at times, I felt like I was playing my PS3 because the graphics are so beautiful. the fish bites, you pull the reel up and WOW! you hooked him, and now you have the option of releasing some line by pressing the drag button setting which is separated into 5 increments. holding the rod down and holding the rod up seem to have an effect, but I’m not positive on that. after all that, you go to Bass Pro shops and upgrade your gear. I immediately upgraded my line to a 17 pound test, and bought the most expensive lures. You can also upgrade your rod, reel and boat, but I just bought the game today, so I’m not there yet. I have raced the boats though, and that is a lot of fun also. I’ll tell you I bought this game without any knowledge of this company. I thought it would be worse, but I was surprised. I was actually eyeing the We Fish by Rapala, but I think it looked more kiddie, although it looked good also. Overall, I think I made a great choice and will continue playing it until I finish all of the challenges.
edit: one reviewer complained that he must constantly open up the reeling mechanism to have the reeling mechanism work effectively. the instructions that came along with the reel tell you to line up the nunchuck pad with the arrow on the inside of the supplied reel. I haven’t had any issues.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 4th, 2009at (#)
I was extremely excited about this game – enough that I preordered it as soon as I heard about it.
My first impression was that it was difficult to get the hang of. I am an avid fisherman, and the movements were unrealistic in my opinion. Once I had the hang of casting, I began fishing. The problems continued. After earning enough reputation points, I started a tournament at Lake Amistad. My problems with the tournament were as follows: (1) I primarily caught smallmouth bass (I do not recall ever hearing of a smallmouth being weighed in at a tournament on Amistad); (2) striped bass count in the five fish limit (which will irritate any bass fisherman); (3) my bigggest 5 went around 24 pounds (which is a solid limit) and won me last place by a landslide; and (4) the biggest 5 fish caught by the winner weighed approximately 80 pounds – which is absurd. I understand making the game “fun,” but it should not deviate so much from reality.
This game could have been amazing – but instead it is mediocrue as most fishing games are (other than Sega Bass Fishing Duel, the original blackbass, and a few select others).
Other than the non-existent realism of the game, the game play is jumpy; the graphics are terrible for the Wii version of the game; and the controller is big, bulky, and unrealistic.
I would probably like this game more if I didn’t love to bass fish. I hated the game and wish that I had either not purchased it or sent it back.
Rating: 1 / 5