Platinum Games chose Wii as the platform for its ultra-violent, black and white blood bath, MadWorld, because "it feels like a game that is at home" on Nintendo's console. Hmmm...
Speaking to CVG Platinum Games' Atsushi Inaba said the pick up and play nature of the controversial action game made it a good fit for Wii.
"We're really interested in the Wii platform so we wanted to create a really cool and stylish game for that," said Inaba.
"As you can see [from our Leipzig presentation] it's really easy to pick up and play so when we came up with the concept of Mad World the Wii felt like a good console for that. It feels like a game that is at home on Wii."
MadWorld recently riled up a ton of controversy in the newspaper press for bringing extreme violence to Nintendo's otherwise "family friendly" console.
"Yes, it's violent. We don't try to hide that, but as publishers, we see it as a fantasy game - it's fantasy violence. It's over the top. It's cartoony," Sega marketing man David Corless told us added.
Refreshing? Yes. Needed? Yes. But is Mad World completely "at home" on Wii? Look out for the full interview later today.
Yeah they said that to try and draw back the rejected core gamers like myself as the wii has become so painfully 'family' recently. Not saying 'family' is a bad thing, there is space in the gaming arena for all demographics. But I for one am not bothered about this game one bit. It'll take more than a black and white gore fest to make me dust off the wii and buy another game for it. I just can't see that happening seeing as the PS3 has such a strong line up coming.. LBP, Resistance 2, RE5, Dead Space, Bioshock, KillZone 2.. the list goes on.. now these games pique my interest!
Yeah they said that to try and draw back the rejected core gamers like myself as the wii has become so painfully 'family' recently. Not saying 'family' is a bad thing, there is space in the gaming arena for all demographics. But I for one am not bothered about this game one bit. It'll take more than a black and white gore fest to make me dust off the wii and buy another game for it. I just can't see that happening seeing as the PS3 has such a strong line up coming.. LBP, Resistance 2, RE5, Dead Space, Bioshock, KillZone 2.. the list goes on.. now these games pique my interest!
So you're not going to buy what looks to be a "good game" because you think your ps3 has a lot of good games coming for it this year?
Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess, Mario Kart, Super Mario Galaxy, Paper Mario, Battalion Wars 2, Radiant Dawn are all games enjoyable by core gamers and they're just the first party titles I thought of, even though people constantly say Nintendo forgot about the core gamer.
For upcoming games the Wii is getting something for everyone from quality looking JRPGs (Fragile, Kizuna, Rune Factory Frontier, Monster Hunter 3, Arc Rise Fantasia, Tales of Symphonia 2, Crystal Bearers), to action games (Mad World, Disaster, Tenchu, Deadly Creatures), adventures (Sam & Max, Strongbad, 42, platformers (De Blob, future Lost Winds episodes), sports (PES, NHL, NFL), combat flight games (Sky Crawlers) and basically anything (Little King Story, House of the Dead: Overkill, Fatal Frame IV, The Conduit, COD5, Space Invaders Get Even) a gamer may want so, yes, there's going to be a lot of choice for Wii owners, though I'm also perfectly content for now having recently bought most of my games (Prime 3 is a visual masterpiece, more so than Galaxy despite the Wii's limited specs).
No, it doesn't have Halo 3 or Killzone 2 (first and second party games, I'd bet Nintendo has more of those) and it doesn't have GTAIV but then again, most of the good Wii games are exclusive also (or the definitive version of a given game, like Resident Evil 4) and most of the upcoming promising games are also exclusive, not even on the PC (where I'll enjoy some of the highly hyped supposed 360 & PS3 games). It also gets many of the multi platform hype hits like Guitar Hero and Force Unleashed. Of course we WILL be seeing more of Nintendo's own franschises like the promised re-invented Zelda, Pikmin, Mario and things like F-Zero. But there's going to be enough third party hits to tide fans over until then, like some of my examples here.
So, yeah, I'd say Mad World is right at home, as are any other games since the Wii offers anything and everything really...
PS: I love how apparently everyone owns a Wii but doesn't play it at all, and yet doesn't sell it either. What's the point? There's a high demand, you won't be losing money, so just sell the Wii if you really own one, instead of try to make yourself appear "objective" by saying you own it. It doesn't do much for objectivism if you own it but don't try/play any of the games on it you know (hence all the gathering dust comments)...
Yeah they said that to try and draw back the rejected core gamers like myself as the wii has become so painfully 'family' recently. Not saying 'family' is a bad thing, there is space in the gaming arena for all demographics. But I for one am not bothered about this game one bit. It'll take more than a black and white gore fest to make me dust off the wii and buy another game for it. I just can't see that happening seeing as the PS3 has such a strong line up coming.. LBP, Resistance 2, RE5, Dead Space, Bioshock, KillZone 2.. the list goes on.. now these games pique my interest!
I read article as he was talking about the control method of the game being at home on the Wii. Not so much the style. Although we did get No More Heroes and Killer 7 on the nintendo machines which resemble each other somewhet.
Those who have chosen to ignore the console have made up their mind. Reasoning isn't going to change any of that.
Agreed. Some people just point blank refuse to see past the party-game image and check out the really good 'core' titles. Maybe this is why the hardcore stuff tends not to sell as well on Wii.
PS3 owners (and I am one also) reel off so-called killer aps such as the new Killzone and Res Evil 5 but the Wii's future line-up consisting of stuff like Tenchu 4, Monster Hunter 3, Fatal Frame 4, Dead Rising, Fragile, Madworld, House of the Deadverkill is as promising as anything on the more powerful consoles.
It seems to me there are three types of Wii owner. 1 - The casual gamers, who are content to play nothing but multi-player party games (and that's absolutely fine.)2 - The supposedly 'hardcore' who own a Wii as a secondary and less powerful console and continually moan about its lack of graphical guts and games. 3 - Then there are those (such as I) who having disregarded the shovelware tat and done a bit of software searching, have enjoyed some of the best cult classics of the current generation.
I was a huge wii fanboy, one of the biggest from day one. Sure there are some fun games on wii, but now I have experienced the fidelity of PS3 I'm just not interested in wii anymore. Maybe a little narrow minded but hey. Even if they were to bring out a brand new Zelda tomorrow I still might stop to question if I would buy it... sure it might use motion plus but I really can't stand the wii graphical grunt now. I used to think it didnt matter. I used to crusade about it. But now I've seen the benefits and emersion of higher quality graphics. Viva la resolution!
I was a huge wii fanboy, one of the biggest from day one. Sure there are some fun games on wii, but now I have experienced the fidelity of PS3 I'm just not interested in wii anymore. Maybe a little narrow minded but hey. Even if they were to bring out a brand new Zelda tomorrow I still might stop to question if I would buy it... sure it might use motion plus but I really can't stand the wii graphical grunt now. I used to think it didnt matter. I used to crusade about it. But now I've seen the benefits and emersion of higher quality graphics. Viva la resolution!
You sound like a bit of a techno/graphics tart to me. Of course graphics are important, but as fantastic as something like MGS 4 looks, I enjoyed No more heroes infinately more. The imagination and concept was still evident through its lower-res graphics and it was far more fun to play. The problem I have with the PS3 is that its games are all a bit too po-faced and 'serious' for my liking and apart from LBP, its future line-up looks pretty identikit to me.
When I play a Wii game, I don't sit there continually thinking 'God, this looks crap'. I just enjoy and have fun, which is ultimately why we do this hobby.
So you'd miss out on a future Zelda adventure and all its stunning design and imagination, simply because it doesn't have bump-mapped textures, bloom lighting, a zillion polygons and run in 1080p? That is a pretty shallow stance to take.
He does sound like that doesn't he? He seems to think Wii owners haven't seen high def graphics which is why they like their Wii... He was also stupid crusading about something in the past when he had not experienced anything else... I guess he should know people like you have a PS3 and people like me have a high performance PC and enjoy gaming at resolutions and visual "fidelity" higher than on any console, and yet still have a lot of fun with their Wii and Metroid Prime 3 (which is aesthetically beautiful) even though a while ago they were playing MGS4 (for you I guess) or Bioshock and Call of Duty 4 (for my case) and other such games.
So, yeah danny, there are people who crusade for the Wii even though they have tried (and enjoyed) the perceived competition. And there's nothing wrong with our eyes, we even hate how many of the current gen's high profile titles run on 30 fps on the "big" consoles as opposed to the near standardised ideal 60 since a couple generations ago (which is why I play such games on my PC). Too bad but we can deal with it and don't go out of our way to proclaim Halo 3 sucks because of it or things like that. Nice that you also made just an average overall response without actually taking in account anything that was said, but I guess you did show us your priority, the e-penis of the high res high spec games, dur.
Some people just have a fearful lack of common sense. Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 don't even run at a proper HD resolution on consoles nevermind 1080p, yet they are happy to play that. I very much prefer the eerie beauty of Metroid Prime 3 which runs at a fixed 60 frames, even though I have a Crysis capable PC (a game that stomps on all others in terms of graphical realism).
The Wii line-up has more promising exclusive RPGs coming out for it than the others have exclusive games , to say it has nothing to look forward to is ignorance.
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, platformers (De Blob, future Lost Winds episodes), sports (PES, NHL, NFL), combat flight games (Sky Crawlers) and basically anything (Little King Story, House of the Dead: Overkill, Fatal Frame IV, The Conduit, COD5, Space Invaders Get Even) a gamer may want so, yes, there's going to be a lot of choice for Wii owners, though I'm also perfectly content for now having recently bought most of my games (Prime 3 is a visual masterpiece, more so than Galaxy despite the Wii's limited specs).
verkill is as promising as anything on the more powerful consoles.
, to say it has nothing to look forward to is ignorance.
