MadWorld
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| Studio | Platinum Games | ||
| Publisher | Sega | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
March 2009 (worldwide) February 2010 (Japan) |
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| platform | Wii | ||
| genre | Hack and Slay | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Wii Remote + Nunchuk | ||
| language | English | ||
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| information | indexed in Germany. | ||
MadWorld is a hack-and-slay video game developed by Platinum Games and published by Sega . Due to the high level of violence, it was never published in Germany and it was also indexed.
Game description
The game is presented in stylized black and white comic graphics in which only red blood is shown in color. The player controls a man named Jack who is equipped with a chainsaw . Jack is a participant in the TV sports program "Death Watch", in which the residents of a sealed-off and camera-monitored city have to kill each other in order to climb a ranking and survive. The player is challenged to bring down opponents with a chain of attacks and thus to increase his score. What happens is often unrealistic and fantastic.
In the individual game sections Jack can move freely and has to switch off other participants in the ranking show, mostly in the most brutal way possible - the more unusual, the more points Jack gets for the individual murders. The developers didn't skimp on the representation of blood and so it is almost always the case that the killed enemies ultimately die in their own pools of blood.
The action is followed by two commentators who keep the audience up to date and often make fun of those killed or sometimes the killing, mostly Jack.
At the end of each level, Jack meets a boss who tries to incapacitate Jack in his own mini-arena. They all have special abilities, for example there is a woman named Elise who can transform into a bat and is therefore also referred to as the "Vampire Lady" by the show's commentators. Elsewhere in the game you meet Frank, who resembles Frankenstein's monster , or Kojack, against whom you have to compete on a motorized two-wheeler.
The points won in the game, like the extreme display of violence, represent the essential element of MadWorld. Although the player can choose to kill the fellow combatants only with his fists or the chainsaw attached to Jack's arm, this is how you reach the end of the game only the worst rank. In order to improve your bottom line, it is therefore advisable to also include the various objects that can be found in the areas when eliminating opponents. For example, you can tear a traffic sign out of the ground, ram it in the head of an opponent, then throw a car tire over him so that he can no longer move and throw it at the end of a train that is just passing by. All combinations multiply the points Jack would have received for the murder of the respective participant. Jack can also use striking weapons such as a katana, a baseball bat or a club with nails to make the worst of his colleagues. The many different actions that the player can perform with the weapons and the opponents are all based on relatively simple movements of the Wii Remote or the Nunchuk. Many of the moves that the game suggests to the player involve performing simple gestures (such as turning the Wii Remote in a circle).
reception
In the UK, the head of mediawatch-uk , a lobby for custom in film, television and video games, expressed disappointment that MadWorld would be released on Wii. The game spoils the console's family-friendly image. At the same time he wished that MadWorld would not receive a rating from the BBFC , which would have amounted to a total ban on sales. In response, the organization received a large number of emails from disgruntled gamers. MadWorld was released with the BBFC "Adults Only" rating.
The National Institute on Media and the Family in the United States also condemned in a press release on the occasion of the game's release that Nintendo had opened up to violent games.
In Australia, the game was approved by the usually strict Australian Classifications Board from 15.
SEGA announced in advance that they did not want to publish the game in Germany. In May 2010, the European version of the game was indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People in Germany.
In the United States, only 66,000 units of the title were sold in the first month of sales, similar to the lightgun shooter House of the Dead: Overkill and other games with high age limits for the family-friendly Wii console. Such games are an exception on the platform, which the North American classification organization ESRB named (as of April 2009) 26 games with an age rating of 17 and over from a total of almost a thousand Wii titles. The sales figures as of November 2012 were low at around 700,000.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b MADWORLD. In: British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved May 17, 2013 .
- ↑ eurogamer.de ( Memento from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ): Game review from March 10, 2009 (side copy, two-sided, accessed on May 17, 2013)
- ↑ dailymail.co.uk : Article from August 12, 2008 (English, accessed May 17, 2019)
- ↑ gamesindustry.biz : News from November 13, 2008 (English, accessed May 17, 2013)
- ↑ a b ign.com : News from January 18, 2009 (English, accessed May 17, 2013)
- ↑ ign.com : News from March 10, 2009 (English, accessed May 17, 2013)
- ↑ nintendoeverything.com ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Message from August 19, 2008 (English, accessed May 17, 2013)
- ↑ eurogamer.de : message from May 31, 2010 (accessed on July 12, 2013)
- ↑ gamasutra.com : message from April 17, 2009 (English, accessed July 12, 2013)
- ↑ whatculture.com : Article from December 3, 2012 (English, page 10, accessed May 17, 2013)
