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Pretending to fly is awesome. Airplanes are also awesome. So Konami's Wing Island ($40) for Wii should be a perfect videogame: playing the game is as easy as pointing the remote at the screen and watching the bird-piloted airplanes you've selected mirror your real-life movements. Once you start playing, though, it becomes clear that controlling a digital plane is not as fun as simply pretending you're a plane, or even playing with an actual toy one. Wing Island 's world is drab and ugly, and the tasks tedious (you can fly over cows and drop nets on them or slowly fly through a string of balloons). Even the youngest player may question the game's internal logic — why do giant birds need to fly in planes?
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