The Conduit (Wii)

This is a top-notch first person shooter with stunning graphics and a lot of quality, Sega are going great guns at the moment and proving that there is more to the games label these days than blue hedgehogs.

You play as Michael Ford hired by an agency called The Trust to destroy The Drudge - an insect-esque alien army, wave after wave of aliens await you as does the real mystery of who the villains are.

This is mass alien slaughter in true Halo style, it's good old-fashioned shooting fun and it is a breath of fresh air on the Wii - it does though at times come across as very clichéd.

There are a lot of games though that are constantly churning out worse repetition than this, the attempt here is to provide a solid, fun, and well crafted FPS on the Wii and in that it succeeds.

This is pretty much the title that Wii users have been hanging their hopes on to give the console some more credibility - it's a serious title in a market saturated with mini-game madness and twee, the Wii needed a 'Halo'.

And the Wii's Halo it is, ok, it may not be as groundbreaking, after all it tries so hard to be Halo at times it can hardly strive to have as much of an impact in terms of sailing unchartered waters.

It's no great crime to try and emulate Halo, my only gripe would have been if this was a pale imitation, actually it isn't, it looks stunning and brings that Halo fluency to the Wii and also some superb gameplay.

The AI in the game is well executed, I like it when enemies actually make an attempt to move out of the way when you wield a huge laser gun, after all, they have lives, kids, loved ones. Even aliens have a life too right? So self-preservation is a key motivating factor for them! These boys hide, duck, take cover - works like a peach.

It is wrong to tar this as being a simple pastiche of other games, great strides have been made to make this a different game with it's won merits - a great example of this is the 'all seeing eye' - a device that lets you see things the human eye cannot.

Customisable controls are a good thing, online gameplay is a hoot - there is a great package on offer here for a new type of Wii audience.

This succeeds as a 'serious' Wii game and a very commendable FPS - good work SEGA - next!