Ju-On: The Grudge - Wii Video Game Review - Computers - Computer Games

Have you ever want to be part of the grudge? With this new video game you to be part of the movie, with its scary haunted house feel the Grudge really tries to take advantage of them Wii. The story of The Grudge focuses on the cursed Yamada family, each individual character is played out through different episodes, starting with the daughter of the family chasing her dog into a empty warehouse. The other family members start by traveling to haunted hospitals, a freaky fashion school and a set of abandoned apartments.

The game will start you off with real live footage set to a dreary tone. Controlling the different characters can be difficult and feels like you are waving a flashlight with a mind of its own all over the place. The controls are very difficult as you try to move your character through the game, you move very slowly through out and it almost feels like you are standing on turtles at times. Actual game play can be fun you will dive into closets and fight in close quarters with big monsters and even some strange cats. But the controls are very difficult and trying to swing the unresponsive Wii remote in the direction of the arrows can be scarier than the game itself. At one point in the game I had to start a entire episode of because of the Wii remote being so unresponsive to the game.

FeelPlus while trying to celebrate The Grudges 10th anniversary failed and just stumbled in the dark, the graphics remind me of a N64 games while you have polygons hanging out. The sound featured in this game is deplorable and very disappointing, at times I thought I was playing doom. The playability as stated above is very difficult in part to steer with the Wii remote, it is like trying to put a key in a car door while staggering drunk. Unfortunately the scare factor is limited as the controls, sound and graphics or so second rate, this is not a game that I would recommend or play again, the game had true potential to really creep people out but failed at every corner.

Hopefully FeelPlus will redeem themselves in the future with a new Grudge game. Either by finding themselves a new console to place their games on or trying to work the kinks out of the controls. Of course it may just be more cost effective to throw the entire game out and try out something new. Like golf or fishing...

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