Godzilla: Unleashed: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox video game

|developer = [[Pipeworks Software]]

|designer =

|engine =

|series = ''[[List of Godzilla video games|Godzilla]]''

|genre = [[Fighting game|Fighting]]

|modes = [[Single player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]

|platforms = [[Wii]], [[PlayStation 2]], [[Nintendo DS]]

}}

 

 

==Gameplay==

 

==Story==

''Unleashed'' takes place twenty years after ''Godzilla: Save the Earth'', beginning when a meteor shower causes climate shifts and earthquakes. Simultaneously, monsters of Earth begin attacking cities across the globe as a result of crystals growing on the ground. Factions form among the members of Earth as well as the monsters attacking them, totaling four monster factions. Choices within the story affect later events, including the relationships between Earth factions and the monster ones. The Vortaak, returning from the previous games, choose to invade and use the crystals to seize Earth, but their mothership was knocked into the San Francisco Bay. It is revealed in the finale that the source of the crystals was SpaceGodzilla trying to escape his interdimensional prison that he was trapped in at the end of ''Save the Earth''.

 

 

==Playable monsters==

 

 

 

==Development==

 

On October 9, 2007, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071013184458/http://blogs.ign.com/Pipeworks_Software/2007/10/12/68795/ IGN's] development blog has revealed that Heavy Melody created the soundtrack for the game and that every monster has a unique theme song that ties to the overall feeling of their faction. On October 19, 2007, ''IGN'' stated that the PSP version of ''Godzilla: Unleashed'' was canceled; however, it was said that if the Wii version of the game sells well, they would consider bringing back the PSP version.

 

 

==Reception==

| WII = true

| na = true

| GSpy_DS = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name="gspyds">{{cite web |last=Theobald |first=Phil |date=December 11, 2007 |url=http://ds.gamespy.com/nintendo-ds/godzilla-unleashed/840908p1.html |title=GameSpy: Godzilla: Unleashed Double Smash [sic] |publisher=[[GameSpy]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213175349/http://ds.gamespy.com/nintendo-ds/godzilla-unleashed/840908p1.html |archive-date=December 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref>

| GSpy_WII = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="gamespy"/>

| GameZone_PS2 = 5/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Hobbs |first=Ronnie |date=December 4, 2007 |url=http://www.gamezone.com/reviews/godzilla_unleashed_ps2_review |title=Godzilla Unleashed - PS2 - Review |publisher=GameZone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005232643/http://ps2.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r31652.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2008 |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref>

| GameZone_WII = 4/10<ref>{{cite web |last=David |first=Mike |date=December 18, 2007 |url=http://www.gamezone.com/reviews/godzilla_unleashed_wii_review |title=Godzilla: Unleashed - WII - Review |publisher=GameZone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005233427/http://wii.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r31652.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2008 |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref>

| IGN_WII = 4.9/10<ref name="IGN"/>

}}

 

Unleashed received negative reviews on all platforms, according to video game [[review aggregator]] [[Metacritic]].<ref name="metacritic"/><ref name="mcds"/><ref name="mcps2"/> ''[[Play (US magazine)|Play Magazine]]'' called the Wii version "among the best fighters for the system",<ref>{{cite journal |title=Godzilla: Unleashed |journal=[[Play (US magazine)|Play Magazine]] |date=December 2007 |page=82}}</ref> while [[GameSpot]] stated, "Unleashed is the worst thing to happen to Godzilla since getting killed by Mothra's babies."<ref name="gamespot"/>

 

 

 

 

 

==''Double Smash''==

 

Critical reaction to ''Double Smash'' was largely negative. ''IGN'' gave the game a score of 3 out of 10, saying: "None of the recent Godzilla games have been very good, but at least they were fun. ''Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash'' cannot make this claim. It looks terrible, and reduces the King of the Monsters to a mush of no-texture polygons, then puts him in a tedious series of punching planes and kicking boats."<ref name="IGNDS"/> ''GameSpot'' gave ''Double Smash'' a 2 out of 10, calling it "one of the worst DS games ever made," adding: "With a perfect storm of terrible game design, bad play mechanics, and uninspired destruction, this game does what oxidation bombs, volcanoes, and [[Matthew Broderick]] couldn't: It kills Godzilla."<ref name="gspotds"/> ''GameSpy'' gave the game a 1 out of 5, saying: "This brain-dead combat is perhaps the worst part of ''Double Smash''. Slowly plodding through the stale levels, fighting the same enemies, and using the same techniques to win grows old almost immediately."<ref name="gspyds"/>

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