8 Best Wii FPS Games

Call of Duty 3 was a launch title for the PlayStation 3 and Wii in North America, Europe and Australia, and it is the only major installment to not release on PC. It is a World War II game, and its campaign sends your squad to clear out the Forêt d'Écouves and later up to the summit of Hill 262. The game received positive reviews on release, though retrospective assessments have been more negative.

On the Wii it was the first try at pointer aiming from one of the biggest names in shooters, and it shows. Players who went back to it say it lacked multiplayer of any kind and felt awkward to play. It makes the list as the curiosity of the bunch, a piece of Wii history you can still enjoy if you know what you are getting.

Conduit 2 starts right after the first game. Michael Ford follows John Adams through a conduit and ends up on the GLOMAR oil rig, and the story only gets stranger from there, all the way to Atlantis. The developers dropped "The" from the title because they considered it "too much of a mouthful". Split-screen and sniper rifles went in because fans asked for them, and you can now flip over tables and soda machines to use as cover.

It supports Wii MotionPlus and the Classic Controller, so you can play it the way you like. Conduit 2 released to mixed reviews and failed to meet sales expectations, and even with its cliffhanger ending, High Voltage Software has not developed a third Conduit game. Players still name it among the Wii's best shooters. It is the louder, sillier sequel, and that suits it fine.

Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 is the 12th installment in the long-running Medal of Honor series of World War II games, and a direct sequel to the PSP-exclusive Medal of Honor: Heroes. It was announced at Nintendo's E3 2007 Press Conference, and the Wii and PSP versions were each built from the ground up for their own system. It was also the second Medal of Honor game on the Wii, after Vanguard.

The Wii version's multiplayer is online-only, with no split-screen at all, and the Australian and Japanese releases had no online play either. One player pointed out the bonus Wii owners got: "the Wii version has an exclusive on rails version of the campaign". Players still list it among their favourite Wii games, and it is the most complete war shooter on the console.

Red Steel is a crime story that takes place in both the USA and Japan, with Scott Monroe fighting off Yakuza clans to rescue his fiancée. The on-screen gun hand points the gun in the same direction the Wii Remote is pointing, and between gunfights you get sword duels. When an enemy gives up, you can shoot him or wave the gun to make him kneel, which earns you respect points.

It runs on a modified Unreal Engine 2.5, and much of the Ubisoft staff knew that engine well. Players are honest about it: the controls are loose. If you can live with your aim drifting now and then, it is a fun slice of the Wii's first year. It also set up a sequel that fixed nearly everything, which is a nice thing for a rough game to leave behind.

GoldenEye 007 on the Wii is a remake developed by Eurocom, and it is not the N64 game with a fresh coat of paint. The story was rewritten for Daniel Craig as Bond by Bruce Feirstein, the screenwriter of the original movie. You still infiltrate the dam and chase Ourumov in the tank through the streets of St. Petersburg, and you can surprise enemies covertly or go in for a full firefight.

The multiplayer is where it earns the name. Four players share one screen, the cast includes classic characters like Oddjob and Jaws, and modifiers such as Paintball and You Only Live Twice change every match. Online play holds up to 8 players on top of that. Players call it the Wii shooter to own. For a lot of Wii owners who never had an N64, this was their GoldenEye.

The Conduit came from a developer that wanted to make a Wii game for the hardcore audience. Secret Service agent Michael Ford is caught in a Washington, D.C. shaken by tragic incidents, while an alien race called the Drudge uses portal-like Conduits to deploy their forces throughout the city. The story borrows from the book Chariots of the Gods and the film They Live, and the All-Seeing Eye lets Ford uncloak hidden enemies.

The Conduit was the first third-party Wii game to use Nintendo's voice chat accessory, and in a free-for-all you only hear the six players closest to you. Players call it fun but rough, and they remember the online being great when it worked. The pointer aiming is the star here, and on the Wii that was the whole ballgame.

Corruption is the seventh main Metroid game, and it was released in North America on August 27, 2007. You control Samus Aran using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and that new control scheme took a year to develop and delayed the release several times. It was first shown at the E3 2005 trade show, so fans waited a long while. Samus is first sent to the planet Bryyo, then to Elysia, to find out what happened to her missing comrades.

More than one million copies were sold in 2007, and critics praised the voice acting, which most Nintendo games did not have. Strictly speaking it is a first-person adventure, but you spend a lot of it shooting, and few Wii games aim this well. Players list it right alongside the Zelda games when they name the Wii games to own.

Red Steel 2 is a standalone sequel to Red Steel, and it starts over almost completely. It is set in a Wild West-like North America where warrior clans employ both samurai and cowboy weapons, and you alternate between shooting and sword fighting on the fly. The visual style is similar to Ubisoft Paris' own XIII. It was the first game besides Wii Sports Resort to use Wii MotionPlus, and it is one of three third-party Wii games to require it.

It was released worldwide in March 2010 and received generally positive reviews, and GamesRadar said there was "no comparison between the two" next to the first game. Players rate its motion controls as some of the best on the Wii. You do need the MotionPlus add-on, so check the drawer of old controllers before you buy.