2. MadWorld. I didn’t actually get my hands on MadWorld but I did get to watch the game’s producer Atsuhi Inaba play it for a bit and from what I saw, there has never been a game that has looked or even played like this one, especially on the Wii. Once again, screenshots and videos simply don’t do this baby justice; one really needs to see it on a high def widescreen television to take in all the monochromatic glory that is MadWorld. Once Inaba started slamming and enemy into a wall of spikes repeatedly, as red blood gushed out over the black and white screen, I knew the game was going to blow my mind.

From the screens and videos we’ve seen, I had been worried that the harshly contradicting blacks and whites and heavy shadows were going to make a game where it was impossible to discern different objects or characters from each other. Color (or in this case ink might be a better word) me wrong. Everything was crisp clear and extremely violent. After an enemy was chucked into a dumpster, the lid game down on his body and cut him in half. Trash cans can be slammed over enemies heads, causing them to wonder around aimlessly until you decide how best to dispose of them and prompting the sports announcer to shout “Woah! He just slammed that trash can down on him harder than a basketball player slams a hooker.” Yes, you read that right, I didn’t make that up.

This isn’t Nintendo’s family friendly Wii, and with SEGA publishing the game, they can once again proudly say that SEGA does what Nintendon’t. The motion controls are mapped to incredibly gruesome deaths. Want to chainsaw an enemy in half? Slash down with the Wii remote. Want to slam a stop pole through his head? Thrust forward with that baby. How about raising a guy over your head and ripping him in half? Just pull apart your Nunchuk and Wii remote and it’s done. Luckily it looks like MadWorld has taken a cue from No More Heroes and mapped normal melee attacks to button presses, saving only gruesome killing moves for the motion controls. Seriously, this game looks fucking (pardon my French but I have to use that word for a game this over the top) incredible and if you don’t support what developer Platinum Games is doing with it, then be prepared for many more years of shelves filled with Wii Sports rip offs.

[See also: MadWorld gallery]