Decreases the effectiveness of the Wii Remote to the point where you'll lose every game.

The Wii Remote is like a stock racing car. It is added to and changed as much as possible to try to make it perform the best and look the coolest. Everybody's doin' it. One of these companies is Pega. Pega is the company that designed the Wii Sports attachments and many other sleek, but purely stylistic add-ons. They aren't poorly designed, but rarely do they provide any real help in games. Their next product is the Wii Remote Light Gun.

First off, I just want to mention packaging. Usually, if everything is fine on the outside, then you can bet that at least a little bit of effort was put into polishing the actual product to prepare for distribution to the consumer. As you can see in the picture below, the design is enticing and eye-catching but the grammar is littered with errors.

The Wii Remote Light Gun is a pearly white plastic gun that has a compartment for the Wii Remote on the top. The Nunchuk then attaches to the bottom of the gun with its cord, just like you usually would with the regular controller setup. The gun with the controller attached is actually pretty heavy. This is a bit of a negative, since you'll sometimes be holding the gun in one hand and the nunchuk in the other hand. It's not too large and fits comfortably in your grasp, and doesn't look too shabby either. I mean, if other people saw you playing with this while using the Wii, you wouldn't look completely ridiculous. It also holds together very well and everything fits in very securely.

Even though it may look really cool, it doesn't perform its main function as well as it could and should. The gun has a trigger which triggers the B button on the Wii Remote with a plastic hook. Since the resistance between the trigger and the hook helps the gun trigger get back in place, you aren't able to get off shots as fast as you are without the attachment. This is especially frustrating in games where you need to shoot many shots consecutively. For example, in Wii Play's target practice game, everyone I played against won every time with just a regular remote.

When we switched, I won hands down. It just doesn't allow the user to press the B button as fast as one would need to in a shooting game. Also, on regular shooting games like Red Steel, you are not able to press any other button on the Wii Remote. This really limits the usage of the product on many complex shooting games. Of course, the pure concept of a Light Gun with the Wii would sort of imply the loss of the rest of the buttons, but it would've been great to see a solution that lets us use all buttons.  

Overall, there's no real reason to use this accessory, since it actually decreases the effectiveness of the Wii Remote to the point where you'll lose every game.