Your enemies aren’t human beings
There is no blood
No language issues
but the game is “almost all shooting all the time” mixed with adventure-style puzzles.

The story is less mature than most sci-fi movies and shows. Very simple, melodramatic, good v. evil. If you don’t have a problem with shooting games, I seriously doubt you’d have a problem with this. T-Teen seems right.

For more detail, give me a few more days!

This is, so far, the perfect “teen rated shooter.” It’s playing good guys versus aliens, with graphics.

http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=1950

http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=2106

Should give you a good idea as to what the game contains. The 14+ recommended for Metroid Prime 2 is probably the best baseline. If you’re really worried about it, I’m sure GamerDad will have a Metroid Prime 3 review up within the next couple of weeks.

Also you can switch around the jump/shooting buttons from B/A to A/B if you like.

There’s 3 modes of sensitivity you can choose from. Expert mode basically has the smallest bounding box in which to aim in without turning. Normal has a wider box and I think beginner has the biggest.

I might actually like Normal better in some ways than Expert. It depends on how lazy I feel.

On expert you have to pay a little more attention to keeping the cursor centered otherwise you’ll turn, but in exchange you turn a bit quicker.

It’s all easily the smoothest first person controls yet on the Wii. And really it seems like the little annoyances I had in other games or even in the Wii menu sometimes disappeared here. …

A couple things that bug are that there are loading times now when you shoot some doors. It might because they squeezed in bigger locales with more special effects and less ‘tunnel walking’ between rooms, but it wasn’t that way in previous games.

The controls that ask you to ‘pull back, twist and push in’ with the wiimote aren’t that great. Maybe if you’re standing up they work good, but kicking back on your couch? If they do work crisply then it’s not when you have little room to pull back the wiimote.

Another example of awkward control happens when you use interfaces that require to hit a button. First you have to have to press the A button to get into the interface. Then you’re pressing it again to push the button. It feels awkward especially in your spaceship.

Pressing down on the d-pad to shoot a missle doesn’t feel too good either.

So there are parts of the control that leave room for improvement. But stuff like flicking up to jump in morph ball mode or using the nunchuk (motion control) with the grappling hook work great and are fun. Aiming of course is really good.

So far it’s Metroid, but there’s voicework now, more short cutscenes and more ‘missions’ and story told to you through npcs as you move along. IT feels faster paced. I haven’t felt like scanning things as much as before. Scanning isn’t exactly the easiest control to access initially either.

So far I’m into it. It’s a busy game initially with lots of little things thrown at you and a easy to follow fairly typical plot line. SEe one thing this game does that I like is that it throws more than shooting at you and the shooting isn’t always just shoot the guy in the head.

YOu have to find weakpoints or many enemies have different patterns of movement. It’s old school arcade stuff, but I guess I find that refreshing from a first person perspective. It keeps you on your toes and keeps the gameplay from getting stale.

I find the RE4 controls to be okay, but still not great. Being forced to target with the nunchuck when using a scope is painful for me. Also, I think I’d have preferred to shoot with B instead of A, since it’s where the trigger’s supposed to be, right?

I like reading that MP3′s controls has moving the remote to the screen edge turning the view, as long as it’s not “too jumpy”. That’s another mild annoyance in RE4; when I’m trying to survive a group attack and I cannot easily swing left or right (or all the way around) again due to needing to use the nunchuck. Maybe it’s because I often end up using two hands on the remote when shooting to keep it steady — just like people do with real guns.

Anyway, for MP3′s controls, does it require a similar chord for shooting, or is it a one button approach? And, how smooth/jumpy is the view rotation at the screen edge? I never bought Red Steel since it didn’t review well and didn’t seem interesting enough to justify the cost.