Product Description

Godzilla Unleashed - Everyone's favorite monster returns in a completely redesigned and updated massively destructive brawler! Play Godzilla as never before with non-linear story paths and all new Toho monsters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1846 in Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2007-12-05
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .58" h x 5.44" w x 7.53" l, .30 pounds

Features

• Be Gozilla and wreak destruction - using the Wii controllers you can truly feel like you are battlng and destroying as the famous monsters
• Innovative non-linear storyline - for the single player missions, choices made in battles affect how the game plays out, creating different story branches and paths leading to multiple possible endings
• Play as new Monsters as well as all the classic favorites, all approved by Toho (creators of Godzilla)
• Social Party modes

Customer Reviews

Godzilla Unleashed on Wii
Let me preface this by saying that I'm a big Godzilla fan who enjoyed the previous two entries into this series, "Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee" and "Godzilla Save The Earth" even though they were flawed games. I have been awaiting "Godzilla Unleashed" since summer and it is one of the reasons I picked up a Nintendo Wii.

While "Godzilla Unleashed" is far from a perfect game, I am very happy with it and would recommend it without reservations to any Godzilla fan. The game features an almost perfect roster of Toho monsters, some of whom have never appeared in a video game before. The game also features innovative controls that make use of the Wiimote/nunchuck setup and a nonlinear story mode in which choices made during the game influence what you encounter later in the story. And, of course, there are many options for multiplayer which has always been the cornerstone for these Atari Godzilla games. All of the above are executed with varying levels of quality.

My criticisms of the game are that the controls are a little tricky to master (but that may not be a bad thing), the story mode and crystal power ups are needlessly complicated, the system for unlocking new monsters is hilariously arcane (buy x faction and use x monster on x day and destroy three crystals x then go back the next day and fight another monster during the new moon then circle around three times then say MOGUERA three times while facing north) and I much preferred the more straight forward system used in DAMM where completing the game with different monsters unlocks new monsters. I would have been honestly happy with a graphically improved version of STE with more monsters and a simpler version of this single player mode.

But ultimately all of that doesn't take too much away from the experience of the game. As a Godzilla fan, there is an undeniable thrill from seeing new characters like Biollante, Titanosaurus, Varan, and the orginal 70's Mechagodzilla (who is animated with all of his stiffly robotic glory) appear in the game. Next time they need to throw in Zilla and Hedorah to have a perfect roster.

Great fighting game
The controls take getting used to, but once you do it is very fun. I recommend starting at easy then work your way up to medium or hard.
The graphics are great, detailed skin textures, you can even see the "MG" on Mechagodzilla's(1974) arm.
Beam fights are much easier to do, simply shaking the controller.
Grappling is frustrating.
Some bugs, aiming can be an issue and Megalon can't aim if his life depended on it.
The sound is great and the monsters look great.
Godzilla 90's LOOKS like Godzilla 90's. They even gave him the booming gutteral roar he had in the first 2 Hesei films(1984-95).
Huge assortment of monsters.
Small assortment of cities, stupid story and control issues are the biggest cons.
Other than that it still is a very enjoyable game, since it is Wii and motion sensored, you also get a mini workout too ;)

Okay, but Should Have Been So Much More
I am a huge Godzilla fan, really loved the movie, wish I could say the same about this game. It's okay, but it could have, should have been so much more. Godzilla seems to hit like a girl and he needs some umph behind his radioactive breath in this game that seems to not quite have taken that leash of the big guy.

Also the plot seems pretty weak to me. Huge all powerful crystals have landed on the planet and drive Earth's monsters insane. However, Godzilla and a few other monsters are good and have to go around stomping down the all the bad monsters, destroy those crystals and survive a rampaging, bad type military guy who wants to kill them. It took me two hours and forty-five minutes to get through the first level or campaign to unlock more monsters, but by that point I was pretty tired of the game.

My nephew seemed to like it though, he's six and he laughed a couple hours away with the game, but an expensive game like this needs to be more than a six-year-old baby sitter, it needs to offer us big people a reason to come back to it again and again and sadly I don't think this game quite delivers.

Reviewed by Captain Katie Osborne