Press Releases
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11 months ago
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike Preview
By Alexander Amero
Put down your pole and tackle box and fire up that Xbox, freshwater fishing is finally coming to
your humble abode. Bass Pro Shops: The Strike aims to change the long history of fishing games
that cast themselves as uninteresting, unpolished and tedious. How do you turn a sport that
focuses on endless waiting into something hot? Bass Pro Shops: The Strike promises two
features that place it above the competition: its accuracy and its peripheral.Loaded with LED lights, accelerometers to detect motion, rumble, and force feedback in the reel,
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the included fishing pole peripheral really captures many of the nuances that real fisherman use
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about 1 year ago
A more realistic fishing game is on the way
April 21, 2009 -What do you do when your favorite past time is fishing and you can't make it to the lake? The answer in the past has usually not been playing a fishing game. Most such games have been budget affairs with sitting motionless being about the only thing in common with the real thing. Bass Pro Shops' The Strike is looking to break the genre out of that slump.
The big selling point of this latest fishing game is the custom fishing controller. Many fishing controllers have come and gone over the years but few offer the immersion that this one does. Accelerometers --those magical little gadgets that give the Wii all of its motion controls --are being used to make the act of fishing as realistic a...
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about 1 year ago
Bass Pro Shops’ The Strike Hands-On
Peripheral maker Griffin is no stranger to the videogame market. It's made guitars, charging stations and more for 11 years. But now it's got a new fishing pole peripheral designed specifically to work with the Wii remote and nunchuk, and this time around there's a game to go with it. The title is Bass Pro Shops' The Strike, it coms out later this year, and it ships with or without the company's innovative fishing rod peripheral depending on your preference. With for $49.99 and without for $39.99, in case you're wondering. The company contracted the creative aid of Piranha Games to handle the software side of things. The end result could be the most comprehensive fishing simulator on Wii yet.
The Strike takes you to the waters ...
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