Promotional Consideration: King of the Monster Ads
Filed under: Promotional Consideration Rawr! Of the three Godzilla: Unleashed games released (Wii, PS2, and DS), the DS version is, without a doubt, the worst of the bunch. That's saying a lot considering that GameSpot described the Wii version as "the worst thing to happen to Godzilla since getting killed by Mothra's babies." In its review of the DS game, Godzilla: Unleashed Double Smash, Nintendo Power opined, "The slow descent in Godzilla games has finally hit rock bottom." Nevertheless,
Just as the large install base for the PS2 attracted a whole lot of shovelware developers and games, the DS now also has to deal with these issues. It’s soaring popularity attracted amongst others Santa Cruz Games, an infamous independent shovelware developer. Before, they added the brilliant Superman Returns: The Videogame to the handheld’s library, and now they’re back with Godzilla: Unleashed. This game based upon the classic Japanese monster movie has you playing as the colossal lizard. Not
Filed under: Video We're not surprised to hear that Godzilla: Unleashed Double Smash was developed by Santa Cruz Games, the same studio behind Superman Returns: The Videogame; we probably would have been more surprised if the developer wasn't Santa Cruz Games. The Wii version of this multiplatform release doesn't look too pretty either, but the DS game seems like a complete afterthought. It's not just the deformed "style" we've found displeasing -- it's the blandly repeating, Flintstones-esque
