Product Description

Monster Lab is set in an eerie, supernatural world where the evil Baron Mharti rules the region with a cruel hand. The player takes on the role of an apprentice scientist who must perform a vast array of intricate experiments to create your very own monster from over 150 monster parts. Taking control of your monster, the player can then explore the land - searching for ingredients to make more monster parts, hunting out other monsters to defeat in combat, uncovering quests to embark upon or simply competing in the numerous mini-games available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1872 in Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Model: SMONSWUS00
• Published on: 2008-11
• Released on: 2008-11-04
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .57" h x 5.31" w x 7.57" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Step into the shoes of a Mad Scientist: Starting as an apprentice working under 3 eccentric mentors, level up through the ranks as you master the mad sciences
• Outrageous Experiments: Cultivate your science skills through crazy yet ingenious experiments both in and outside the lab
• Create your own Mad Monsters: Over 150 million monster combinations allow you to create a truly unique creature. Monster Generation System: Never fight the same monster twice. Multi-player: Challenge and compete against your friends monstrous creations.
• Explore a challenging fantasy realm: Delve into 6 eerie regions facing quests, challenges and collecting powerful ingredients needed for your next mad monster creation
• Gesture Combat: Go head-to-head against evil Monster minions in a fast-paced, ferocious, turn-based combat system

Customer Reviews

More fun than you might think
I received this game for Christmas and have logged about 12 hours on it so far. I've really been enjoying it.

Monster Lab has loads of kitschy monster movie ambiance and Halloweenie vibes. It also has really great, addictive gameplay.

The game is essentially a collection of mini-games, somewhat like the Wario game, Smooth Moves. You build a monster from a small collection of parts then go out completing quests and mini-games, and also fighting other monsters to get ingredients to make more parts. Each part you create (heads, arms, legs and torsos) requires you complete a usually pretty fun mini-game themed to what you are building. (Tossing brains into a skull to build a head or wrestling an arm under a grow light to make an arm, etc.) There are loads of combinations to create the various parts and it's a lot of fun to see what you'll get.

Oddly, though the mini-games are always timed and sometimes a little stressful, combat is turn based. No button-mashing is required when you get into a fight, just decent strategy.

Potential turn-offs are that the story is simplistic and the humor is corny. However that seems to fit the game, somehow.

Best game on the Wii
Talk about an underdog story! This game doesn't get nearly enough acclaim and attention. My daughter (age 6) and I both love this game for its ease of play while maintaining a deceptively deep strategy element. It's a wonderfully realized game graphically too. Elements of scariness without being too scary and a great sense of humor make this game my prized possession for the Wii in our household.

It's an elaborate paper-rock-scissors game with construction concepts, mild drama, and great humor. I can't think of a better game to introduce the concept of strategy to a 6 to 10 year old.

Gameplay - 5/5
Graphics - 5/5
Storyline - 4/5 (can get a little repetitive)
Education - 5/5

Love this game.

An awesome sleeper!
I waited to get this game, and wasn't sure if it would be up my alley or not. That being said, I love this game! Very few games have stepped up to the plate with the Wii to make a game which is both fun and challenging based on the capabilities of the Wii, especiall in the RPG genre. The variety of mini games in Monster Lab makes me feel like I'm not doing the same grind for hours straight. While you go into dungeons, and do battle with rogue monsters, you also can play up to three different mini games within the dungeon which gives you ingredients to make parts for your monster. Plus I enjoy the variety of monster parts (Mechanical, biological, and alchemical) and how each has a mini-game associated with them. Your success at the game determines the quality of your part. I love how challenging the game is, yet how versatile it is when you are not as good at some things. For example, I am terrible at the Mechanical Legs mini game, but thankfully I can use biological or alchemical legs instead! Also I am terrible at sketching, but can muddle through when necessary. The game has an excellent help system, which offers instructions each time. This is very handy as many games out there will tell you once, and expect you to automatically know AND remember the crazy sequence each time. I feel this game finally took the time to develop an interesting game with lots of play-ability! It is clear that care was taken to develop this game I am sure I will enjoy for years.