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MadWorld

• By Patrick Shaw
• April 03, 2009 11:25 AM PST
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Disneyland for Gore Fans

MadWorld's levels start out with you putting hundreds of lower level enemies through the grinder, doing everything from snapping their necks, skewering them on spikes, and using your chainsaw to savagely cut out their beating hearts. After you've taken apart a sufficient number of adversaries, new melee weapons spawn around the level like baseball bats with nails embedded in them and flaming torches; you then use these implements of mayhem to demolish more foes. Roughly halfway through each level a mini-game is also triggered. These ridiculous challenges have you doing things like using a golf club to decapitate enemies and using foes as human fireworks that explode into red splatters that litter the floor with body parts.

All the levels in the game conclude with a boss fight, which are themed according to the particular city you're fighting in. For instance, in the horror-themed city you face bosses such as semi-nude vampire with massive breasts as well as a goliath-sized opponent named Frank who resembles a certain iconic Universal Monster. There's also a sumo wrestler boss, a Helghast-look-alike who emits tornados, and several other memorable foes you'll clash with. My reason for focusing so much on the ways levels are structured is because its multi-faced nature is what make the game such a blast to play. There's a lot going on within a single level

Not All Fun and Games

While I'm convinced that MadWorld, from beginning to end, is one of the best games you can get your hands on for the Wii, there are a few things I didn't like about the game. My biggest beef is with the game's flimsy multiplayer support. Instead of offering a cooperative campaign, which would have made the game infinitely better, you can play the game's bonus rounds with a second player. The multiplayer mode as a whole seems thrown in there just so they can state that the game does have multiplayer support of some sort. As the saying goes, something is better than nothing, but that's not so true in MadWorld's case. Honestly, they shouldn't have even bothered putting this last-minute two-player mode in the game.

Another nitpick I have is the fact that the play-by-play commentators in the game, voiced by Greg Proops (from Whose Line is it Anyway) and John DiMaggio (Marcus Fenix from Gears of War), constantly repeat themselves to the point where it becomes distracting. There were times when I heard the announcers say the exact same thing six or seven times within the same level. It's not that the commentator's raunchy jokes aren't funny -- it's just that the humor just loses its effect after you hear the same thing over and over again.

The Wii Grows Up

Despite these minor issues, MadWorld is without a doubt one of the most stylishly cool game's I've played in years. It's artistic but insanely brutal at the same time and a hell of a lot of fun. Come this March, Wii owners are definitely going to want to pick up this gory treat. The rest of you haters who've picked on the Wii since its release will just have to drool and be jealous.

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