In retrospect, if someone had have told us that we were about to come face-to-face with a creepy crawly scorpion, and a tarantula big enough to eat a small dog, we probably would have taken time out to tuck our pants into our socks and pull on some precautionary brown underpants.
Deadly Creatures is a brand new creepy-crawly-fest from talented developers Rainbow Studios, a group well known for their stellar work on the MX vs. ATV series. Now before your brain can spit out an image of a spider busting out superman airs on a motorbike while a competing ATV riding scorpion tries to sting his way to the chequered flag, you should probably know that Deadly Creatures is a game that's more 'Discovery Channel meets Japanese Bug Fights meets a free roaming 3d brawler' than racer.
Recovering from our earlier fainting episode we played a few levels to see how the playable Scorpion character handled. Holding the A button locked us onto an enemy spider and after we closed the distance with astonishing speed using the analogue stick, we began our assault by flicking the Wii-mote horizontally to execute an epic sweeping tail attack.
It was a truly satisfying leg sweep manoeuvre that was made even more impressive because our opponent had eight legs to sweep. After creating an opening in the arachnid's defences using some light pincer attack combos we dealt out some massive damage by stabbing the Wii-mote towards the screen to plunge our stinger barb into our unworthy opponent. Funnily enough Mr Spider didn't feel like living after that shot...
Beneath all the Smash and shovelware, the Wii really did have quite a few gems.
Not a bad list.. I would add Excitebots, Kororinpa 1 & 2, Bit.Trip series, Geometry Wars: galaxies
In an enlightening interview with Laser Lemming Nordic Game's Martin Kreuch reveals the swedish publisher's plans for their recent haul of THQ ips, including Darksiders.
How about no Darksiders at all? I never understood how people could play this game from start to finish, both belong to the worst games I played in the last 10 years.
Darksiders is an amazing Zelda style game with terrific art direction, great characters, fun gameplay, and something severely lacking from this generation BOSS FIGHTS! The first also had a pretty decent story and its ending is one of my favorite endings in video games.
I also agree with the notion of the first being better than the second.
Oh maaan, please continue the story of darksiders series.
Also if you do manage to get older developers, i hope you guys remove the rpg-ish element. <_<
The game was much better without it.
Agreed! I feel the RPG/loot esque style detracted from focus that could have been spent on more memorable characters and gameplay.
Game Informer - One of the most unique Wii titles revolved around a spider, a scorpion, and actors Billy Bob Thornton and the late Dennis Hopper. THQ released Deadly Creatures in 2009 to little fanfare, but many that played it were charmed by its quirkiness. This week, we see if that charm holds up.
