MadWorld for Wii

A while ago, I posted the trailer for MadWorld. I was excited. I was looking forward to a Mature hack-and-slash title for the Wii. I enjoy the Wii Fit and Wii Sports, but I wanted something more, especially after the let down of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I was even quoted in the StarTribune: Video games: Wii gets Mature.

MadWorld is everything the trailer promised. It is a gore-fest of brutality and foul language. The gore I expected, but perhaps I’m behind in my understanding of modern Mature video games because I did not expect just how foul the language could get.

MadWorld is The Running Man meets Escape from New York, the main character Jack is combination of Snake Plissken and Ben Richards. Jack is undercover in MadWorld, for what purpose, I’m not sure. I’ve only bested the first two bosses. The set up is that Jack is a chainsaw wielding badass who has won sponsorship to become a contestant in a live-action game show of pure slaughter.

The game show commentators are so foul mouthed that I completely understand why the game is for 17 and up. Outside of over hearing a bunch of teenagers, I don’t think that I’ve ever heard “Fuck-Tard” used, and that is the tamest of quotes.

After my initial dropped-jawed shock at the bloody game play, learned the moves to rack up a high scoring kill: pick up a tire, put the tire over the head of an contestant, grab a street sign and put it through his neck, pick him up still quivering and slam him, not once, but four times on the wall of spikes. The more creative the killing combo, the more points are earned. See, you need to earn enough point to qualify for the death match against the levels big boss.

I have to say that I’m a little disappointed. I knew that the game would have a week story, but it is almost non-existent. I’m a gamer that needs story. I want an interesting plot with enough room for a few choices to be made that impact the out come of the game. Still, MadWorld delivers the blood.

I’ll keep the game around as a novelty for parties, but I don’t know how much time I’ll put into playing it solo.