Endless Ocean
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Released: November 2007, updated in 2010. Added to this library 5 months ago, last updated 3 months ago.
Overview
Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts. As experience is gained you can encounter dolphins, huge whales, underwater wrecks and deep-sea trenches.
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This game is good if you want to harm no living thing, learn something playing a properly great game, escape life's storms for a while or inhabit another world.
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System settings: The Wii has a few helpful settings, like disable rumble, but you have to use gesture controls for most games and the system menu... read more.
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