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Escape from Bug Island

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 19 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Eidos Interactive / Nintendo
Developer: Spike
Genre(s): Third-Person Action, Adventure, Survival Horror
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Summary
(Also known as "Necro-Nesia") Escape from Bug Island is a 3rd person survival-horror game that takes a quirky, creepy and over-the-top journey onto an island filled with giant evil insects and mutant creatures. Play as Ray and get physical – use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to shake off and blast massive bugs as well as evade nasty attacks and clingy creatures – in an attempt to rescue your best friend Mike and secret love Michelle. Armed only with a flashlight and a few simple weapons, players start the game alone in a dark fog-covered forest trying desperately to figure out where everyone has disappeared to. When there is nowhere else to turn, take advantage of the "Cave of Time" and travel back to save loved ones. Make sure to explore every dark nook and cranny and uncover the mystery that is Beelzebub Island – called by those who know and fear it – BUG ISLAND. Escape from Bug Island's control system takes advantage of everything the Wii has to offer and brings a spine-chilling workout from start to finish. Offering hundreds of enemies to stomp on, squash, smash, and blow up and a vast array of weapons to keep you safe, Escape from Bug Island is an adventure that is a tribute to the classic campy B-horror movie. [Eidos Interactive]
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Also On The Web: Official Website Official Website (JPN)
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Zentendo
The game is around 20 hours long for the average gamer, and the game has three varying difficulty settings, making the game a cake walk or an all out nightmare.
Read Full Review >NGamer UK
We applaud the return to nature, but outside of a few icky moments there really is nothing to recommend Necro-Nesia. Go throw a spider at someone; it's a whole lot more fun. [JPN Import; Mar 2007, p.52]
Read Full Review >Game Chronicles
If you love giant bugs and the whole saving the damsel in distress and don't mind shoddy graphics, dismal sound, and repetitive gameplay, give it a shot. But you've been warned.
Read Full Review >GameZone
Escape From Bug Island could very easily be a long-lost Dreamcast title, with hastily-added motion controls. Were that the case, I think I’d rather it had stayed lost; I can’t even imagine anyone enjoying this.
Read Full Review >NintendoWorldReport
A hollow experience that can’t even deliver on its admittedly hokey premise with some mindless bug-bashing fun. The controls are awkward, methodical, and frustrating, while the visuals are a big step back, even by the standards of last generation’s hardware.
Read Full Review >IGN
You'll want to escape the entire dated, clumsily pieced together affair, which plays and looks like a last generation survival horror game developed by an inexperienced studio.
Read Full Review >GameBrink
It’s a boring ugly game with complicated controls and a B-Flick storyline. Who can’t wait for the US release!? [JPN Import]
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Escape from Bug Island is a dismal reminder of the low points of survival horror's past.
Read Full Review >Nintendo Power
Stiff controls and sloppy collision detection certainly don't help matters, nor do the truly atrocious production values. [July 2007, p.94]
Destructoid
While the game is utterly terrible, it has that B-Movie sentiment to it that does make you laugh at just how horribly bad it is.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
With terrible graphics, boring game objectives, frustrating, at best, controls, and mind-numbing character interaction, Escape from Bug Island sets a new low point for Wii games and video games in general.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
And the game's twist will excite only fans of backtracking, who, as far as I know, don't actually exist. [July 2007, p.83]
1UP
Bug Island fails and frustrates so thoroughly throughout its 10-plus-hour playtime that its greatest feat may be fooling someone into finishing it who isn't paid to do so. It's easily the Wii's worst showing yet.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Massimo N. gave it an8:
I'm new to video games, but I really don't see why this game has such bad reviews. I bought it cuz it was cheap and I wanted to get some games when I got my Wii, but I really like it. I find the levels challenging and interesting and the only really bad thing is the acting, but the missions are ok. I bought it for $15, so it was a good deal for me.
Uncle Doug B. gave it a0:
It's insulting to play a game with such low standards. Ridiculously horrible gameplay, trashy visuals and sound explode into one of the worst gaming experiences. Ever. Save your time, money and braincells.
Brosso gave it a3:
Oh my god, this game is bad! It's so bad, I can imagine that I wasted time to play this. I want my life back.
William G. gave it a2:
I am glad that Mike R., Ryan W., John S. and Joe W. Nintendo employees really liked the game. For the rest of us non-biased people, this game is completely unplayable. If you want to spend an entire game begging for your life to end, play this game.
Mike R. gave it a10:
This is the new standard for perfection. This game is better than Halo 3.
Ryan W. gave it a10:
A simply amazing game. If you havent got this then you are missing out on so much fun. Perfection.
John S. gave it a10:
Played it with my mates and it was simply amazing. A must buy.
