A very straight forward on-rails lightgun shooter with an eco message as you help clean up the world by blasting trash themed enemies. It may only have three stages, but Intelligent Systems have a real passion for this genre even if Nintendo don't seem to let them make games in it. Eco Shooter is a fairly straight forward shooter, in that shots cost energy to fire and you regain your energy by sucking up the orbs the enemies leave behind. Comboing enemies grants you more orbs giving you even more energy.
This type of gameplay system does mean, that you can't just shoot wildly otherwise you will run out of energy and it's game over at that point. As with most WiiWare games it's not the longest titles with only three rather short stages and no two player mode. Still it's an enjoyable and upholds up to Nintendo's usual standard, but a few more extras wouldn't have gone a miss. Maybe one day Intelligent Systems will give us a long over due third sequel in the Battle Clash & Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge series. Also note how the opening song you can hear at the end of the video incorrectly calls the game “echo shooter” and not “eco shooter”
All footage in this video is captured directly from the Nintendo Wii console, via an Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro using a component to HDMI upscaler. Upscaled to 4K to improve the video bit rate.
Also known: 530 エコシューター (Japan) Eco Shooter: Plant 530 (North America)
Release: 2009
Developer: Intelligent Systems / インテリジェントシステムズ
Publisher: Nintendo / 任天堂
Format: Nintendo Wii / 任天堂 ウィー
530 Eco Shooter is not available on any other format.
All footage in this video is captured directly from the Nintendo Wii console at 480i, via an Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro using a component to HDMI upscaler.
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