Bass Pro Shops The Strike Bundle with Fishing Rod
The Strike combines authentic environments based on real lakes, engaging gameplay with accurate fish and lure behaviors, and a highly interactive fishing pole controller that allows players an immersive fishing adventure. Players can enjoy 3 different game-play modes including Quick Fish, Career and Bass Pro Shops Invitational Tournament, or compete with friends in mini games like boat races and casting challenges. The lifelike fishing pole peripheral lets the player cast, jig, set the hook, and fight as if a real fish were on the other end of the line. The game takes players to some of North America’s most famous fishing hot spots and features eleven types of game fish including Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Striped Bass as well as Northern Pike and Muskie. In addition, realistic lake bottom topography, real-time time–of-day light effects, advanced graphics, and authentic fishing gear from the Bass Pro Shops stores, all combine to offer virtual anglers the most comprehensive fishing game experience to-date.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Trouble is the pole..
Here’s the real deal on this package. The game itself is pretty good, fun enough and it does what it says. The issue is the pole. I rarely complain about products; my attitude is usually “buyer beware” and I cut my losses, but I can’t believe they released this pole product like it is. The reeling mechanism is not engineered very intuitively, thus it “falls off track” literally 2 out of every 3 casts or so. You’ll have to pop it open, and tediously put it back into it’s track constantly. Pretty much ruins the whole experience.
1 Star The Strike for Wii doesn’t load in Wii system
I have had 2 copies of Bass Pro Shops: The Strike and both games will not load into the Wii game system. I checked onther games and no problem.
The worst problem of all is that there is no support anywhere to find a solution to this loading problem. Nothing at the Bass Pro Shops web site, nothing at the game developers web site.
I have returned the copy I purchased from Amazon.
Great looking game, extremely poor launch of the game.
5 Stars there isn’t any tension in reeling in the fish.
I know this is a small complaint on an overall excellent game. without the reel, I’d rate the game one star because pressing the B button to reel in a fish really is BORING. to bring up the correct configuration for the peripheral you must use the controller B configuration.
now on to the game, there are tips on how to cast which is crucial to playing the game. here is the link to learn: [...] Casting is A LOT of fun. follow the instructions on the website and you’ll have a perfect cast every time. It took me about 10 minutes to try and cast and I wasn’t getting anywhere, until I followed the directions on the tutorial video.
To find the fish you must use the fishfinder, which is also really neat. that button is on the nunchuck device. trust me, without the reel, this game is horrible, with the reel it’s awesome.
so you’re in the water looking at all of the beautiful plants looking for fish. actually at times, I felt like I was playing my PS3 because the graphics are so beautiful. the fish bites, you pull the reel up and WOW! you hooked him, and now you have the option of releasing some line by pressing the drag button setting which is separated into 5 increments. holding the rod down and holding the rod up seem to have an effect, but I’m not positive on that. after all that, you go to Bass Pro shops and upgrade your gear. I immediately upgraded my line to a 17 pound test, and bought the most expensive lures. You can also upgrade your rod, reel and boat, but I just bought the game today, so I’m not there yet. I have raced the boats though, and that is a lot of fun also. I’ll tell you I bought this game without any knowledge of this company. I thought it would be worse, but I was surprised. I was actually eyeing the We Fish by Rapala, but I think it looked more kiddie, although it looked good also. Overall, I think I made a great choice and will continue playing it until I finish all of the challenges.
signed,
the guinea pig.
