Start up Ghost Squad for the first time, play it through and gasp at how disappointed you are with the game. Levels are jagged-edged, reminiscent of the Dreamcast era, enemies are identical and hostages are box-headed monstrosities calling out for a mercy kill. Shooting is simple and the three levels to select from are all over too soon… Persevere, however, and Ghost Squad’s simplicity keeps unfolding, handing out more and more goodness of what lies deep inside this lightgun shooter.

The Wii seems, yet again, to be the perfect location for these lightgun games with Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Link’s Crossbow Training and House of the Dead 2 & 3 cementing this genre on the Wii as something that we’re gonna see more of in the future (don’t be surprised if we see Namco Bandai porting Time Crises 4 to the Wii in the future).

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