With a tagline of “Buy it. Now.”, IGN has their review of Zack and Wiki up and they’ve given it a fantastic score of 9.0! They love just about everything the game has to offer which is no surprise as they’ve been on a campaign to get gamers to buy Zack and Wiki for a while now based on their early looks at the title. The graphics are great, the way you control the game is a throwback to Kings Quest or Full Throttle type adventure games, and in the end, the game is just pure fun. Here’s some quotes from IGN on this must have game for the Wii:

In Z&W, each level is effectively one overgrown puzzle. You point the Wii remote at the screen to look around the booby-trapped worlds and then click on items, objects and characters so that the two characters will walk toward and interact with them. It’s as simple as it is easy. In addition to the fundamentals, you will be challenged to hold and use the Wii remote in several dozen different ways in order to simulate on-screen tools, whether it’s a centi-saw cutting through a tree branch, a hammer pounding the top of an enemy’s head, or a crank turning the gears of a primitive machine. We’re not going to spoil a single challenge for you, but the quality of the puzzles present in the title is second to none. Indeed, Z-Dub presents some of the smartest and most rewarding challenges in any adventure game we’ve ever played and it’s for this very reason that you will appreciate the title. (And if the purely puzzled-based stages don’t hook you, the boss fights surely will.)

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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure is a dumb name, plain and simple, but don’t let that (or the game’s seemingly “too kiddie” exterior) deter you from picking it up because this is one of Wii’s very best offerings. Not only is it beautiful, taking visual cues from Wind Waker, but it’s really clever and equally rewarding. When you solve one of the game’s booby-trapped levels, you will absolutely feel like you’ve accomplished a genuine feat. The puzzles will work your brain over in some cases. Bearing that in mind, Z-Dub would appear to be exactly the opposite of what its name and art style suggest – this is a game for adults and not so much kids, in my opinion.

And here’s a video of Zack and Wiki in action: