Retro Review: Madworld

<p>The <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;top-8-overlooked-nintendo-wii-games&sol;">Wii<&sol;a> is a very decisive console for most gamers&comma; some say it is a baby console&comma; others kind of look at it as a fad&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know where I stand with either side just yet&comma; my Wii&&num;8217&semi;s disc drive broke about seven years ago and I finally just got it repaired and set up this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;ve been excited to get it back for awhile because I knew there were lots of titles that I didn&&num;8217&semi;t get to enjoy while my machine was in disrepair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;5-of-the-most-violent-video-games&sol;"><em>Madworld<&sol;em><&sol;a> is one of those titles&comma; released in March of 2009 it became the first title to come from developer Platinum Games&period; Most everyone knows that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;PlatinumGames">Platinum Games<&sol;a> was the phoenix that rise from the ashes of Clover Studios once it was disbanded by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;5-companies-buy-capcom&sol;">Capcom<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Personally&comma; I am a giant fan of Platinum Games&comma; their titles are always unique&comma; violent as hell and over the top&semi; they also control like a dream&comma; well&comma; maybe not <em>Star Fox 0<&sol;em>&period; The title was directed by Shigenori Nishikawa&comma; a designer on <em>Resident Evil 4<&sol;em>&comma; and produced by Atsushi Inaba who produced <em>Viewtiful Joe<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Their first outing with the Wii was an interesting romp into the Mature audience area and a unique title for the Wii&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let me first say that this game is violent as all hell&period; You play as Jack&comma; who wields a chainsaw on one arm and is an all around badass&period; Varrigan City&comma; which was built on Jefferson Island&comma; is the location of the game&comma; you must compete in a show called &&num;8220&semi;Deathwatch&&num;8221&semi; to make a ton of money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Island is broken into many parts where you complete many tasks for Agent XIII&period; Prior to Jack arriving on the island&comma; a terrorist organization infected the city and let the occupants know that if they killed someone they would receive the vaccine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This of course was a lie to get ratings up&comma; Jack unwittingly finds out about the vaccine and attempts to be one of the biggest anti-heroes in gaming&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll let you play to find out if he succeeds or not&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to spoil Platinum Games&&num;8217&semi; first game for the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;144245" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-144245" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-144245" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;07&sol;10005817&sol;madworld1a&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-144245" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Mad World<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Sega&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Surprisingly enough the controls for this game with the Nunchuk and the Wii Remote plays very well&period; They do take some time getting use to&comma; but with all the prompts that float across the screen&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll master them in no time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A is punch&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll use this a lot&comma; B revs up the chainsaw and swinging the Wii Remote slashes in the general direction you swing&period; This makes for a lot of blood and gore as you slaughter these hapless victims&period; Should you suddenly get in trouble during a fight just flip the Nunchuk and Jack will flip away to safety&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are some obstacles in Jack&&num;8217&semi;s way&comma; and he can jump over them when you press Z&period; C is lock onto enemies and adjusting camera when you begin to look the wrong way&comma; this helps a lot because you get turned around really quick with this camera&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can grab enemies and certain items lying around by holding down A&comma; getting close to certain areas or enemies may give you a prompt press B with this prompt and you will do some special moves which gain you more points&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is an action brawler&comma; and the controls are surprisingly responsive for having motion controls that are sometimes iffy on the Wii&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is one of the most unique looking games that I have ever played in my forty years&period; The game is shaded in black and white and kind of looks like the movie <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rottentomatoes&period;com&sol;m&sol;sin&lowbar;city"><em>Sin City<&sol;em><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The only color that you actually get to see is red&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s when you&&num;8217&semi;re murdering people by the hundreds&period; I actually like how this looks&comma; surprisingly it holds up quite well on my flat screen tv through an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bestbuy&period;com&sol;site&sol;tv-video-accessories&sol;a-v-cables-connectors&sol;abcat0107015&period;c&quest;id&equals;abcat0107015">A&sol;V cable<&sol;a> since I&&num;8217&semi;m yet to get a composite or HDMI cable to work on my Wii&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t fuzzy&comma; didn&&num;8217&semi;t run slow and most of all aged quite well over the last decade&period; The music though&comma; honestly&comma; it is what a headache must sound like&period; I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t a huge fan of the constant boom boom booming of the hip hop picked for the levels&period; I guess it fit the idea of the game&comma; but I didn&&num;8217&semi;t enjoy it and I tried to go a little faster in the level just to get the song to end&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;144268" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-144268" style&equals;"width&colon; 690px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-144268" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;07&sol;11011827&sol;mad&lowbar;GC&lowbar;01-660x370&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"386" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-144268" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Mad World<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Sega&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Mad World<&sol;em> was a great introduction to Platinum Games&comma; you can tell that they were floating lots of ideas and mechanics in this title for their future more popular titles&period; I see the craziness of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;bayonetta-review-joy-thought-never-come&sol;"><em>Bayonetta<&sol;em><&sol;a> and the fast paced action of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;vanquish-8-years-later&sol;"><em>Vanquish<&sol;em><&sol;a> hidden in this title&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mad World was their first foray into the hack and slash adventure and while it has some repetitive issues and such&comma; the groundwork they laid for future titles is amazing&period; I would recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of Platinum Games&comma; this one is definitely worth a look&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It should be an easy title to find&comma; and Wii&&num;8217&semi;s are also pretty easy to find&period; For maybe 50 bucks if you don&&num;8217&semi;t have a Wii already you&&num;8217&semi;ll be greeted with a lot of blood&comma; gore and humor&period; The controls will take a few tried to get use to&comma; but once you get the hang of the them you&&num;8217&semi;ll be cutting people in half in no time&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Check out some of my other <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tag&sol;retro-review&sol;">Retro Reviews<&sol;a> on BagoGames&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;