High Voltage has been making heads turn with its upcoming first-person shooter that pushes the Nintendo Wii's limits in terms of graphics and gameplay. The Conduit is still in pre-alpha, but ever since September's Penny Arcade Expo, High Voltage has been taking feedback from players who have had a chance to play the game. At the recent Nintendo Media Summit in San Francisco, we saw a noticeable difference between the build we played at PAX and the new version.

The Conduit's story is set in the near future, where Washington DC, is attacked by an alien force known as the Drudge. You play as Mr. Ford, a former Secret Service agent who is now working for the Trust, a shadow organization led by a mysterious man by the name of John Adams. Ford is recruited to discover who is behind the attack. We were able to start off in the game's third level, which High Voltage has described as a Cold War-era bunker, a sharp contrast from the outdoor environment that we've seen before. The atmosphere feels very different this time around, especially because we spent our time navigating through hallways that would occasionally rumble, causing debris to fall. We dodged in and out of empty rooms and opened steel doors, only to get shot at by resurrected Trust agents. The demo at PAX had us navigating through city streets, jumping through rubble, and blowing up aliens, so this was an interesting change of pace. The gameplay also built so simple and easy.