| mike_intellivision said: I finally cracked open by copy of Madworld. Here are my impressions.
1. First of all, it did not seem to like my system. Both times I started to run it, I got a "system files corrupted" message. It might be that it does not like how I was entering the PIN for parental controls. But it ran fine after I rebooted the system. (I am running 4.0U). 2. The multitude of credit logos show a lot of cooks in the kitchen -- not necessarily a good sign (or just a sign of the times). 3. The opening scenes -- a montage of narrated stills -- was not interesting. I skipped it after about 30 second and I usually watch those things. 4. The controller instructions don't stay on screen long enough initially and the tutorial is a bit vague if you don't know what you are doing. 5. The tutorial got to be tedious and a bit hard to follow (I didn't realize it was a tutorial) until I figured it out (I think) what I was doing. 6. The text was a bit small (not the only game that has this problem -- you would think companies could make text of readable size for a 27-inch TV on a console that can only do SD). 7. The kill animations were repetitive. 7. It is too easy to bring up a pause menu by accidentally hitting the (-) button 8. There should be an intermediate save point. After slogging for almost an hour, I didn't want to continue and didn't realize that I would lose all my progress. (I was finally about ready to start the actual first stage when I thought it might be good to get some sleep). Still, once you start scoring points, the game is fun. I plan to go back to it -- someday. But there is no way this should be considered the test case for "mature" games on the Wii. It is M-rated, but its gameplay is not mature. Killing everything is not new (see Death Race). I wonder if Sega advertised it so heavily because they knew it was like a movie with high hopes and low results. So you advertise it heavily so that there is an initial surge to make back the production costs.
Mike from Morgantown
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I agree with the bolded.
