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Wii Zapper with Link's Crossbow Training | 
| From: Nintendo
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $17.45
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Rating:  156 reviews
Sales Rank: 60
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 13 x 5.8 x 2.6
MPN: WI-RVLRRZPE
Model: RVLRRZPE
UPC: 045496890186
EAN: 0045496890186
ASIN: B000W5Y49G
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brandnew. Full retail package - Link's Crossbow Training and Wii Zapper. Unsealed to check package.
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| Features:
| • | Wii Zapper comes with Link's Cross Bow Training Game | | • | Wii Remote and Nunchuk are sold seperately |
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Product Description
With the Wii Zapper, your game shooting experience is guarenteed to take on a whole other dimension. Your Wii remote and nunchuck fit snugly into the Zapper, still working as well as before, only now in a shape that, when simulating the use of a weapon such as a gun or bow, allows for a steadier hand that is much less likely to get tired. Included with the Zapper is Link's Crossbow Training for the Wii, a clever and engaging shooting game set in the world of Twilight Princess that includes 27 different levels, several different game modes and multiplayer capability up to four people. Link's Crossbow Training is ESRB Rated T for Teen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 151 more reviews...
 A Future Collector Item November 23, 2007
polydegmon (jupiter, fl USA)
99 out of 107 found this review helpful
I was skeptical when i saw the box. "We don't need to turn the wii-motes into a gun. How good can the pack-in be?" But then I had second thoughts and bought it. We've been playing it all night. I was a Duck Hunt fan and the rail shooting levels are fantastic - like the first time you played Mrs. PacMan after being a PacMan fan but so much better. There's a mix of scrolling, rail and 1st person shooting levels set in the Twilight Princess world that can be played in order or on their own. If you get a Wii for the holidays, pick this up as well. I can tell there's no point in even taking the wii-mote out of the zapper. The family will be playing this just about everyday, despite our having about a dozen other Wii titles. My 3 year old was delighted when she beat my high score. In my defense it would have been higher but I hit a live chicken. My 8 year old informed me "Mom! You can't shoot LIVE things!!!" Who knew? It was so much fun blasting the fruit balloons.... and the skeletons.... I'd defend my record, but my husband and brother have been playing for the last four hours and I can't get near it. Well worth the $20 - if they'd sold the game alone I would have paid more.
Link's Crossbow Training is Great; Zapper Ergonomics are OK! November 20, 2007
IMO666 (Arlington, VA USA)
46 out of 50 found this review helpful
The combination of the Zapper and Link's Crossbow Training is well worth the $20 I paid. The Zapper (which is only a plastic shell for the Wiimote and the Nunchuck) is very sturdy and amazingly well-conceived. The instructions are quite clear on how to insert the Wiimote and the Nunchuck into the Zapper.
Of course the ergonomics of the Zapper are odd, with the trigger (the Wiimote B button) being forward vs to the rear like a rifle or shotgun trigger. However, it's a compromise that Nintendo decided it had to make based on its tests on prototypes. That, and the fact that the infrared component of the Wiimote must be to the front.
The bundled game, "Link's Crossbow Training" is multifaceted and exactly what's needed to give the player practice using the Zapper. AND, the game is a lot of fun all by itself.
The bottom line on this is that the combo of the Zapper plus the game Link's Crossbow Training is a must-have (at least for me) and worth the price. Highly recommended.
 Not even worth the price unless you plan on buying a different gun. November 22, 2007
Scott A. Riddle
23 out of 55 found this review helpful
First off I'm a Wii owner who has no plan to buying any other systems, I've owned every Nintendo consol so far and I've never owned a xbox or playstation. So this isn't an attempt to bring this rating down for any fanboy reason, I just didn't like this product.
In fact I hated this product because I wanted it to be so good that it was a major let down. I found the Zapper itself basically unusable and the Nintendo gun not the game is the reason I bought this. I used to love playing duckhunt with the light gun and this sadly sucks compared to that.
I read a review of this on a game site that wasn't favorable and figured they were just being overly critical but after about a half hour with this I knew they were dead on. The main complaint is the trigger button is mushy and you just can't shoot fast enough when there are a lot of things coming at you. What I learned from the gamesite review was that the mushy trigger button is because there are no springs to make it feel tight and pop back into position, it just returns to position from it's own momentum. It didn't seem bad at first but after playing with it for a while it was stupid that they made it this way.
Second complaint was also one the website had and that is it's uncomfortable. The hand that holds the front grip is put in an uncomfortable place and after a while my hand started to hurt. I switched hands, I tried holding it with just one hand but it was just too uncomfortable for long time play. I couldn't wait to take my Wiimote out and just use it to play the relatively fun Zelda game only to find it's not that great of a game without a gun.
The Website and Me also agree with the other reviewer who complained the Wiimotes buttons are out of reach, if they were needed in other games they wouldn't be accessible. Something I would forgive and say maybe this is a gun just for Link's Crossbow Training if the first two problems didn't exist.
If it wasn't for the Trigger and the Uncomfortable design this would be worth more then twenty, at least 30, 50 if they had put some real effort into the Zelda game. The game isn't bad but it's pretty basic/minimal in design and not much fun without a gun in my opinion. You may love the Zelda game and feel this is worth the 20 dollars because of it but I can't see how anyone is happy with the Zapper itself.
Nintendo had showed off a gun that looked like the old light gun design at a 2006 gaming expo, I hope they reconsider and bring that out or at least something better then this.
Buy a Classic Controller and download some games for your Virtual Consol instead.
Link's Crossbow training will make you a Zapper convert November 28, 2007
P. Webb (Bozeman, MT United States)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is what I expected it to be, a non essential peripheral that only adds to the feeling of shooting (this gun controls excellently off the hip), but Nintendo has included a first class Zelda style shooting game that is just as fun as any light gun game I have ever played as well. The 27 levels will go by fast and if you combo your shots you should be medalling fairly quickly which means that it is technically only about an hour and 1/2 of gameplay till the end, but there are boss battles and free roaming sections on the levels that make it feel like more than some software designed to get gamers used to the Zapper and its mechanics. The instructions are clear and should be read to put it together properly as the cord just fits into the handle, the nunchuck cord does wrap around the handle at the top which will annoy those with BIG hands. I tried it out with COD 3 and RES EV4 and if you can get your index finger on the A button and shoot with your middle finger both are playable but the vehicle/ combat levels in COD3 make it essentially unplayable with this setup same goes for Metroid 3. I can't wait to get my hands on copies of MEDAL OF HONOR HEROES 2-GHOST SQUAD-UMBRELLA CHRONICLES to get some shooting action in that is specifically designed for the zapper, until then I will keep shooting up the landscape in Links terrific if somewhat short pack in game and dream about a COD4 zapper adaptation.
For the price how can you go wrong? November 20, 2007
All Powerful Wizard Of Oz (Oz, far far away)
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
The bottom line is fun. The Wiizapper delivers on this and then some. Boxed with Link's Cross Bow there is no doubt you will get hours of entertainment out of the Zapper and the game it comes with. Even if you never buy another game for it Link's Crossbow is extremely entertaining and has a lot of replay value considering you are going to pay no more then $25.00 for it. If you were lucky enough to pick this up for $19.99 then even better.
The game play is simple enough. Point and shoot. The controls and aim work flawless as one might expect using the Zapper with the Wiimote firmly in place. If you enjoy rail shooters or were a fan of the game duck hunt from the golden age you will feel right home with both the Zapper and Link's Crossbow.
A very nice addition to the Wii library. Worth the purchase.
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