No More Heroes
You are Travis Touchdown, a normal guy (with an otaku geek streak) who wins a Beam Katana through an online auction and uses the weapon to start a new career as a professional killer. One day, an assassin named Helter Skelter appears before Travis and the two face off in a battle. Travis emerges victorious and finds himself in the presence of Silvia Christel, a mysterious French woman who claims to be an agent with the UAA. Silvia gives Travis official rank of 11 in the organization. Now, it’s up to you to become #1. No More Heroes takes place in the city of Santa Destroy, and you are free to explore the town to your liking, taking on missions large and small to collect money and purchase new weapons as you work up towards the 10 main killing contracts. Gameplay is all about using your Beam Katana (via Wii remote) to defeat enemies.
Customer Review: Very Disappointing
Two things prompted me to purchase this game; the positive reviews from online gaming sites and the low price. What I ended up with is one of the most overrated games I have ever played. The game starts off well enough with a helpful tutorial. The fighting engine is interesting and puts the Wii remote to good use. Next, players are launched into the action exploring a mansion and testing out new skills. Right off the bat I was disappointed to see that players have essentially no interaction with the environment. Goldeneye was doing environmental destruction over a decade ago, would it be so hard for modern games to feature it? Each level consists of fighting through waves of enemy foot soldiers before battling the boss level assassin. For the most part the enemy assassins are creative and fun to fight but it felt like UBI Soft ran out of steam as the enemies seemed to get less interesting as the game progressed..
When my wife saw me playing the driving portion of `No More Heroes’ she asked if it was the Wii’s version of `Grand Theft Auto’. This was my initial reaction as well. The other game it reminds me of was True Crime: Streets of LA. Despite getting some pretty good reviews in its time I found True Crime to be painfully ugly particularly compared to the spectacular GTA. `No More Heroes’ is much better looking than True Crime but it’s still a poor mans GTA. The game features a lot of pop-ins as you drive through the city and the frame rate sputters along. The Wii is much more powerful than the GameCube but it still strains to produce a fully realized cities. The dimensions of Santa Destroy (dumb name) are puny compared to the ones in GTA although it is a fairly active city. My last issue is more a stylistic. The designers decided to give everything in the game large jet black shadows but I just don’t think it works. The graphics are already a bit muddy and adding all this black only makes it more difficult for the player to see.
It’s the fighting portion that got the reviewers attention and it’s pretty good but like everything in this game it is extremely repetitive. As the game progresses you acquire a hefty list of wrestling moves. The problem is the wrestling moves are always inferior to the sword so I constantly found myself falling back on slash slash slash. This is symptomatic of a larger failing in the game. Everything is just so darn repetitive. Drive around, earn money, kill lots of people, fight a boss. Repeat.
The thing that defines this game for me most is the refrigerator in your apartment. Opening the refrigerator heals your character completely but there is simply no way you can be in your apartment and not be at full health. It’s sort of emblematic of how unfinished the game feels. By the end the designers just seemed to be trying to get the game to the market. Early on the player explores a decently modeled mansion but the lead up to one of the later bosses was just a seemingly endless narrow hallway. I kid you not. A completely non-descript hall with an enemy every 40 or 50 feet. I could think of so many games I would have rather been playing while I slowly walked down the tedious hall.
In the end No More Heroes is a step forward for Nintendo as far as open ended city games are concerned but a step backwards in general as Rockstar has been producing better games in this genre for years on other platforms. The fighting is good but gets old and the exploration was done better by games I played a decade ago. In no area does the game excel not in driving, or fighting or adventuring or collecting. If I had it to do all over again I would not have purchased this game even at the reduced price.
Customer Review: Hipster game requires lots of wrist arm movement
Lack of seriousness of the game and crazy wrist and arm movement is what turned me off to this game. I bought this game because of Gamespot’s somewhat high review. The graphics are like Cel Shading.
I don’t judge games on graphics but game play and immersion.
This game is Wii shovelware that trys to take advantage of wireless controls. You need to shake the controller for every kill in this game encounter which is ridiculous .
Save your 08 Christmas money…
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The next generation consoles are here: Playstation 3, XBOX360 and Nintendo Wii. Which one is going to win the next-gen war?
The XBOX360 had the advantage of an early release, and is still doing really well in the market, having a 3.2GHZ IBM PowerPC tri-core processor and a 500MHZ GPU, the console is mainly attractive do it’s powerful running speeds, fast-paced online action and mind-blowing graphics.
Plus the console is moderate in pricing: it costs $299.99 for a core system, and $399.99 for a premium system. The cost for one of these is well in between the Playstation 3’s horribly expensive price, and the Wii’s cute cheapness.
One main bad point about the 360, is that because it does not contain a processor from the original Xbox, it cannot play original Xbox games without additional emulation software from the Internet.
Now to the Playstation 3:-
The Playstation 3 is highly expensive, but unfortunately for us Europeans and the Australians, we cannot grab ours until March 2007. So much for a Christmas present….
But for the money it comes at ($499.99 for 20gb and $599.99 for 60gb) the Playstation 3 might be worth it, with the new Sixaxis controller and Blu-Ray drive, it will appeal to some as an entertainment system.
The Playstation 3 contains a Cell Broadband Engine (3.2GHZ) IBM Power-based CPU is almost equal to that of the XBOX360, and the more powerful 550MHZ RSX GPU (based on NVIDIA G70) gives gamers an almost real-life experience! Perfect hardware for Racing and FPS games.
Playstation 3 is highly compatible with the Playstation Portable (PSP) and is often used in games as a controller, once it has been used in a racing game as a rear-view mirror.
Playstation 3 is also compatible with most Playstation and Playstation 2 titles, and future firmware updates will provide more compatibility.
Finally, to the Nintendo Wii:-
The Nintendo Wii is the most unusual console out of the three, and is the one I shall be getting for Christmas this year.
It has a IBM Broadway processor and a ATI Hollywood GPU. It is not as powerful as the XBOX360 or the Playstation 3, but the Wii’s unique game play and controller makes all the difference.
Being able to use the controller as anything from a sword, to a baseball bat, even to a steering wheel makes games active, and can even be a form of exercise.
Plus, Nintendo has got a lot of killer-applications on it’s side, such as Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Pok?mon Battle Revolution.
To top it all off, Nintendo Wii is backwards compatible with Nintendo GameCube, can connect via wireless link to a Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite and download Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, NES, Sega Mega-Drive (Genesis) and TurboGrafx-16 games for a small price, then keep them and play them on your console!
So what do you want? The expensive yet powerful Playstation 3? Or perhaps you want the average priced and powerful XBOX360, or do you want the cheap, unique and highly-backward-compatible Nintendo Wii?
Thanks for reading
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