MadWorld Comments by Simon Parkin
Worn out faces.
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"Boss battles switch between freeform fighting and structured quick-time event-style sections, in which you have to make controller gestures within short time periods."
Great. Now all the non-gamers who can't remember where the X and O buttons are on proper controllers can play QTEs for 5 minutes, before remembering they're not gamers and switching off the Wii for good. |
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Progguitarist
10/03/09 @ 00:45
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@ Tomo
I aint talkin' bout that Wii... :D Seriously, I reckon this would be a good laugh. IGN scored it at 9 for whats its worth. |
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20charactersmax
10/03/09 @ 00:47
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Did anyone else get the subtitle reference? It's from the song Mad World.
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3william56
10/03/09 @ 02:28
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^^
Wow. After that inciteful piece of devastating critique, what more is there to say? Just curious DS109, who in particular is the, er, "douchebag" to which you so eloquently refer? And what was it that disturbed your overly American sensibilities so? As to the game, which part *isn't* a quicktime event? The control isn't subtle enough to actually let you "perform" the variety of carnage on offer, so surely it's just location specific gestures and buttons? But black and white don't make stuff art. Just ask Michael Jackson. |
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gudnikristinn
10/03/09 @ 05:42
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Dammit Eurogamer! If it wasnīt for your review score Madworld would have a higher score then RE5 at Metacritic.com
I just hope some more reviews come in and fix what you have done. I really want this game to be game of the month(i have my reasons).....stupid bet. |
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gudnikristinn
10/03/09 @ 05:52
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Actually as iīm writing this Madworld has a 87 which is the same as the 360 version of RE5 but the PS3 version of RE5 has an 88 score... So one point to go and i win a bet. Canīt wait to see how it goes.
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superjag86
10/03/09 @ 06:54
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Instead of complaining that EG 'only' gave it a 7 maybe you guys should appreciate that they're trying to give us a honest review. It sounds likes there are a few problems with this game but that doesn't make it a bad game. I for one won't be cancelling my preorder but I appreciate the heads-up that this won't be the greatest thing ever, just an enjoyable (for the most part anyway) romp.
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This is still guaranteed at least a 9 if not a 10 in Edge due to it's arty pretentiousness (had to spell check that one in Word!)
With No More Heroes at less than a tenner everywhere, I have a feeling that this type of game will not sell on the Wii, and it will stir the Daily Mail up... What a waste of developer time, at least it will win some awards! |
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seasidebaz
10/03/09 @ 07:49
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Did anyone else get the subtitle reference?
Yep. You missed the other reference though: Jack looks like Marcus Fenix, who in turn had "that song" playing on the Gears trailer. |
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I thought Nintendo only sold games to kids under 12.
I guess you (and others) missed the rather excellent HOTD: Overkill released a few weeks back? Whilst entirely different, HOTD has actually put me off buying MadWorld for now, I've already got a very satisfying high-score-attack game which is going to keep me going for some time, and with PES 2009 on the horizon I doubt this is going to get a look in. |
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Pinewood_Groves
10/03/09 @ 07:54
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I think the graphics look awesome, but the game itself sounds flawed.
The Xzibit bit in the review was a little embarrassing! |
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With No More Heroes at less than a tenner everywhere, I have a feeling that this type of game will not sell on the Wii
I remember Rising Star, who published NMH in the PAL region, saying they were weeping with delight in regards to sales. That the game is now a tenner makes fuck all difference, there are loads of games that sold well and are now cheap as chips. I seem to remember Crackdown doing good business, but you can pick that up for less than a tenner now. |
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Sunyavadin
10/03/09 @ 08:03
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Nothing more or less than I expected, then.
I eagerly await my preorder. |
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Triggerhappytel
10/03/09 @ 08:23
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"IGN scored it at 9 for whats its worth."
Which isn't much. ;) Sounds fun-ish, but like it would get quite tired quite soon. |
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FreakyZoid
10/03/09 @ 09:21
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Starting your review off with a meme already long past its use by date? For shame.
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kinky_mong
10/03/09 @ 09:22
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I'll still be getting it. As Tomo said the review reads like an 8. In fact the most important part of the review for me is...
This is what Clover Studios did next, the latest addition to Atsushi Inaba's stylised family of games that includes Viewtiful Joe, Okami and Godhand. |
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farticusmaximus
10/03/09 @ 09:37
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Demos Ninty, demos.
There's far too much shite on the Wii for me to ever buy a game on it without having played it first as there is no guarantee of the game even being playable, let alone good. Give me demos and I might just give you money Ninty. |
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I was actually pretty afraid that this game would not have the same amount of depth as Viewtiful Joe and God Hand. And it seems that it doesn't. From the review I'd say the emphasis is after all on style over substance. Which IS a little sad considering how all Inaba's games so far had so much style AND substance. But on the other hand, I will be buying it in an instant, because I believe it will be a flawed but fun game. After all, Suda's Ho More Heroes is a game where big parts of the gameplay are pretty much SHIT (driving) and yet I purchased and played that one with a smile.
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youhavenomail
10/03/09 @ 09:56
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As soon as I saw the gameplay videos for this I feared the worst. I was bored of watching after a couple of minutes and I saw nothing to suggest that I would feel any other way while playing. I enjoyed No More Heroes, even the purposefully boring bits, but this just looks like a series of unintentionally boring bits sewn together.
In spite of this lack of substance, the superb style that coats it will have me offering Ģ10 for it when the right moment comes along. |
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Gamers who have been clamouring for adult content for Nintendo's Wii are to be sorely disappointed. MadWorld is as juvenile a videogame as Barbie's Horse Adventures.
Well that's a bit unfair innit? It's exactly the juvenile efforts on the other consoles (Gears of War, etc), which have motivated the pubescent fanboys to call the Wii a console for kids. |
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Vertical Stand
10/03/09 @ 10:01
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Former Clover team with a hand by Yasumo Matsuno who created my favourite game of all time Vagrant Story. Yet for all that the passages in the review about having to endure, play for time and not being able to save are really off putting.
Will still get it at some point but all videogame designers, Japanese developers in particular those from Capcom/Clover really need to stop doing that, can turn fun games into a pain for no good reason. I don't like grinding, not even when its grindhouse. /gets trenchcoat
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it's not the violence that puts me off, and neither is the gameplay which promises to become very repetitive very soon (DAMN QTEs!! I hate them! they're in no way a good substitute to proper gameplay!). it's the fact that, as intriguing and unique the visual style is, I really can't make out anything about what's going on.
I tough it might be the screenshots, and that in movement, you'd be able to tell more easily what's what, so I tried to watch a couple of trailers and... it's even worse!! I'm sorry, I just can't. :\ |
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"Gamers who have been clamouring for adult content for Nintendo's Wii are to be sorely disappointed. MadWorld is as juvenile a videogame as Barbie's Horse Adventures. Of course, juvenile doesn't necessarily mean that it's in any way suitable for children."
This is exactly the truth. Okay, it's got "Mature Themes" and "Content not suitable for minors" but that doesn't in any way make it grown up. I think people expected something more, they expected Sin City or some ironic look on society and Reality TV today. That was always very unlikely. Still, all this needed to be was a good exercise in blood and gore, and it seems to deliver. |
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sanctusmortis
10/03/09 @ 12:06
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Aspic, why the hell do you read EG reviews when you never agree? Go troll Gamespot or something.
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I wish I knew why EG has such hot-tempered readers... Ah well, not going to add more fuel to the flame.
This looks like a flawed gem to me, but a good first effort from a very promising studio indeed. I don't think this will push me over the fence as far as the Wii goes - I need to pick one up cheap if I'm ever going to get one. Can't wait to see what they do with Bayonetta and Infinite Space - the latter sounds extremely intriguing. |
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