MadWorld Unofficial Review

MadWorld

Developed by: Platinumgames Inc.
Published by: Sega of America
For the: Wii - 2 Players
ERSB: Mature 17+ for Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Mature Humour, Sexual Themes and Strong Languages
Released: March 10th 2009

This is ShinraCorp and I'm doing my 2nd unofficial review for Wiiusers.net with the Wii game MadWorld. I am a game critic, meaning I will be pointing out the negatives more than positives, I do not however give out rating points, it's better to read if you like it or not.

Story:The story is a bit original I must say it starts like this, a terrorist group, has taken over Jefferson Island, and decided to claim there grounds for a sport, not just any sport: The Deathwatch Games, a game of survival, a free for all blood bath, where there are no rules to the game, Jack Cayman the main protagonist enters the Deathwatch Games, as you continue along with the game you will uncover Jack's story and reason for entering the DeathWatch Games.

Gameplay:Gameplay wise, you must acquire enough points to procced to the boss, to keep it short it's a bloodbath a really big bloodbath. There are many ways to kill your enemies, but what I find funny is that blowing up your enemies gets you more points than a stylish kill (exemple throw them over a high speeding train.) Each boss follows the simple rules of block, dodge then attack, nothing to special about it, each boss has there own personalities for exemple, a big strong but yet low intelligent man, a nazi look-a-like with high authority and wearing a gas mask. A person dresses like a pimp and acts like a pimp, but for some wierd reason he's immortal. Loading Time is nothing to worry about a good 8-10 seconds and it's ready. Frustrating camera controls and when you lose all your lives at the boss you have to restart the WHOLE STAGE!

Artificial Intelligence:Keep this short, on normal there really just standing there waiting for you to kill them, on hard it's a whole different story, there gonna try to kill you.

Music\Sound: Music is a key part in gaming why? To set the mood of players, the music in this is like a hip hop for almost the whole entire game, which doesn't really match with the theme as far as I can tell (your killing someone in a sport game, and you play hip hop? Not FUN), the voice acting of it, well I can say there are some times where they sync perfectly and sometimes not so much. Jack's manly voice that might as well be a cooled down version of Kratos, is good. The bosses voices are not all out of sync, but the pimp one.... The sweet sounds of death isn't there, all you'll keep hearing is overreacting screaming, so if you have ear plugs you might as well use them...

Multiplayer:Not much to say about this, there is no online play only splitscreen action, in the multiplayer your compete each other in different ''Bloodbath Challenges'' like the name says you have to kill your enemies to win,not just any enemy, there designated enemies to gain a score, the one with highest score wins. There are in total 12 stages to select in the multiplayer. Nothing original in multiplayer.

Graphics/Visual: The graphics here are based off 3 simple colors: Black, White and Red. The entire time you will be in black and white, and red for blood. The cut between CGI and the comic style cutscenes are good and original (until you play Infamous that is.)

Replay Value:Is this game replayable? No it's not, after you beat it the only thing you wish to do is hard mode, but that's brutally insane hard. There are no unlocks and that's it.

Final Words: This game is a rental only, not worth buying after you beat the game.... if you don't mind the black and white so much and the mature contents on it, give it a shot, especially try doing some stylish kills.