Action game from Capcom. Played on Nintendo Wii.
Probably the coolest game ever made, it's also extremely weird. You play Travis Touchdown, otaku hitman with the aim of becoming number 1 assasin in Santa Destroy so he can get laid. No, really. Gameplay can be best described as GTA with light sabers; you free-roam around santa destroy earning money from odd jobs and assasination jobs until you have money to enter a ranking match, where you fight a higher ranked assasin with your beam katana to reach the next rank.
The free roaming sections are easily the worst part, although it's cool collecting new items of clothing and doing jumps on Travis's insanely big motorbike. unfortunately the city is very glitchy, as npcs disappear and destroyed objects instantly respawn. Fortunately the combat more than makes up for this. With a good system of twin stances using the Wii remote and counters, it is alot of fun, especially when you land that QTE for a slow motion finisher. When you go into limit break-style mode, it's also absolutely awesome, although this is unfortunately quite rare. One limit mode consists entirely of hitting QTEs to brutalise opponents, which looks awesome.
Despite the glitchy city, the game is so original and cool it doesn't matter. The graphical style is awesome, the audio is great, and the narrative is so Tarantino-esque; a post-modern game if ever there was one. 8/10.
Monday, 19 May 2008
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