CORBIE'S GAME BLOG

The classic TurboGrafx-16 first-person shooter "Silent Debuggers" makes it way to the Wii Virtual Console today. If you want to check out the review on Virtual-Turbo, you can click on the box art to the left. If not let me break it down for you. The game is an overly simplistic first-person shooter that just feels like it's missing something. You don't have near the level of play control that you have in more modern FPS games. For the most part you feel like you're just wandering around the many corridors and occasionally the game throws you a bone and lets you actually shoot a monster. Of course by then, you've got monsters crawling up every orifice of your body and your battery is quickly drained. Then it's back to the computer room with a five-minute penalty and out you go again. The soundtrack is nonexistent for the most part other than a short tune you'll get in the computer room and the sound effects are...interesting to say the least. Visually the game is fairly standard early 16-bit material, and certainly nothing to write home about. Although there are some color variations between the different areas in the game, there's really not a lot of variety in the surroundings which further adds to the repetitive nature of the game. Unless you were just a big fan of this game back in the day, I'd say pass on this one and save your points for next week when the amazing pinball simulation "Devil's Crush" comes out. this one's just not aged very well. (4.5/10)