Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4567 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2008-02-22
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

Manufacturer's Description
Godzilla: Unleashed immerses players into a world where monsters are larger than life and the mother of all giants reigns. Specially designed for the Wii controllers, the game stars the legendary Godzilla and a slew of the most renowned monsters to control, destroy and fight. Gamers are challenged to ultimately save the planet from mayhem and complete annihilation. Godzilla: Unleashed provides an environment perfect for epic worldwide obliteration with interactive 3D cityscapes, an innovative non-linear storyline, big destructible buildings, soaring skyscrapers and towering alien formations.

Customer Reviews

Great monster bashing fun.
For those that don't know, this is a continuation of the GC one of the series (Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee - I used to own this and loved it). Great monster bashing fun, but not without it's problems:

The controls: The GC controls were a bit clunky and awkward at times. My hope was that the Wii version (with it's unique mapping of wiimote and nunchuk) would have the problem sorted and controls would no longer be an issue (in fact I was looking forward to using them - the nunchuk is used for movement and the wiimote for attacks).....
Having to unlock everything in single player to be able to use in multiplayer: Mildly frustrating because a lot of the levels required to unlock certain monsters were rock hard. I don't want to buy a multiplayer game only to have most of the promised goodies locked away in a single player story.......I HATE it when devs do this ........

So I didn't initally buy this game for fear it would be worse than the first in these 2 key areas.
I must say that most of my initial fears were unfounded.

The unlocking is not a problem any more because not only is there a code available that you can enter into the game to unlock everything but you can download a pre-unlocked save game from the 'net and use that (go to WiiSave).

"....but that's cheating" I hear you say.
Not really, say I. I have no interest whatsoever in the story line, nor in the single player. Nor do I wish to waste hours and hours trying to unlock things so that when I do play against friends, I am some sort of uberleet Godzilla Master from all the hours of practise, and they're clueless noobs, blundering around and dying .
This way, I haven't had any "practise" as it's all unlocked, it isn't online so stats don't matter, and we're all on a level playing field (the reason I bought this was purely for the 4 player multiplayer side - for which I need everything unlocked).

So onto the game, wrt my first fear above I think the controls are actually very good. It's unfortunate reviewers nowadays seem to spend very little time with the games they are meant to review as if they had spent 2-3 days, I think things would've clicked nicely for them (one of the reason for low score on metacritic imo). The reason they appear broken to some is that people may have a tendency to button mash. Do you remember playing Street Fighter with no clue as to what did what but still managing to beat people by button mashing? .....and how, after moving to the Tekken series, that was very much reduced because timing your attacks was key, mixed with knowing when to guard?
Well, in the same way, you can't just "button mash" or "wildly swing" your way to victory in this, you need to time things well and pace attacks/defence......so I have very few issues with the control scheme I'm happy to report. I feel it's actually quite good once you get used to it (everyone whom I have played with has had no difficulty with the controls after a few days - even someone who intially did got the hang of it after 3 days).

The multiplayer is brilliant with things from "last man standing" to standard brawl type affairs.
My one criticism is that attacks are OK, but the monsters have too much health (4 "units" each giving you a full bar to start with) meaning that battles can take ages if you're only 2 players.
This can be reduced by having 4 player multiplayer (the main fun of this game imo) and with everyone going hell for leather trying to bash each other, health reduces more quickly .
Multiplayer is where this game really shines with not only 4 modes (destroy the city, deathmatch, last man standing, teams) but 4 slots for your own custom criteria .....so anything goes really.

Graphics are top notch too, I really don't see why everyone thinks they're bad. When I play, I don't even notice them as I'm too busy having fun, but even when I do, the cities and monsters look great (I mean, for crying out loud, the original Kaiju are blokes running around in big rubber suits :D, it's not hard to get more "realism" than that out of the Wii).

In comparison to vids/reviews I've seen of SSBB, the arena's in G:U are 3D (not 2D), larger, and you can see what you're doing (makes a change not having the camera positioned miles away from the action). In fact, the camera moves nicely so that you always see all of the area you need to see all the time. Every now and then, a building will get in the way, so it automatically becomes semi-transparent so that you can see what you're doing - so 99% of the time, it isn't an issue.
However, there is NO online at all in this game....of any kind :(.

Summary: With everyone having the same level of ability wrt the controls, it's actually quite a good laugh as a party type of game.

Bear in main, that my thoughts are based on the fact that this is now a £15 game in many shops.......for which I think it's a good buy & great vfm. I'd give the game a solid 75%.

For hardcore fans only - even then it's pretty weak....
I have been a fan of Godzilla since I first saw a few of his films on channel 4 as a kid, sad I know, but even if you dig the big green guy you will not fail to be disappointed by this game. All the major monster food groups are represented and any long standing fan will probably get a kick out of unlocking them and seeing what they do, as I did, but for anyone else this game is just hideous. There are no explosive powers to speak of, like there where in the first two games, your monster just goes atomic and looks all cracked and fiery - like in Godzilla vs. Destroyah - and then your attack strength, supposedly, goes up...wow. The attacks don't feel powerful, the battles take far too long and the graphics are nothing to write home about - not bad - just not `Mario galaxy' great. The controls aren't that tweaked either, they haven't even put a classic controller option in which would only marginally improve the situation anyway...in fact this title has nothing going for it unless you, like me, are a fan of the kaiju genre, and if that's the case, by all means, get it but wait till it goes into the bargain bucket or you'll feel like a right kipper.