Hudson and Konami's Fishing Master, while something that did not immediately call out to me as something I had to own, still managed to impress me considerably when I spent some time playing it at this past week's E3 show.
Your objective as player is apparently to catch and catalog all the fish present in the waters you have access to, and you do this through a very well-done Wii control scheme. Casting is done by holding the B button on the underside of the Remote and swinging your hand forward in a tossing motion, releasing B to actually toss out the line.
Once out, you can move the line around with the Remote a bit to jiggle it, or move the Nunchuk in a circular fashion to reel the line in. When a fish bites, you jerk the Remote up to hook him, and start reeling him in—not so slowly that he gets away, nor so fast that the line breaks; both indicated on a meter on the top of the screen. The fish can often make a break for the left or right, in which case you'll need to move the remote in the opposite direction to keep him from getting away.
The whole experience impressed me by how smooth it was. I may still not necessarily want a fishing game—merely because of my tastes—but if I did, Fishing Master would be it. It just works that well.
Your objective as player is apparently to catch and catalog all the fish present in the waters you have access to, and you do this through a very well-done Wii control scheme. Casting is done by holding the B button on the underside of the Remote and swinging your hand forward in a tossing motion, releasing B to actually toss out the line.
Once out, you can move the line around with the Remote a bit to jiggle it, or move the Nunchuk in a circular fashion to reel the line in. When a fish bites, you jerk the Remote up to hook him, and start reeling him in—not so slowly that he gets away, nor so fast that the line breaks; both indicated on a meter on the top of the screen. The fish can often make a break for the left or right, in which case you'll need to move the remote in the opposite direction to keep him from getting away.
The whole experience impressed me by how smooth it was. I may still not necessarily want a fishing game—merely because of my tastes—but if I did, Fishing Master would be it. It just works that well.