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Customer Reviews of Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters

Gameplay:
The game plays as it is expected: a) big giant monsters are not going to be nimble characters (like in DOA:3 or MK:DA) b) it takes a lot more than a few combos to take an opponent out c) throwing buildings and other monsters at your opponents is a given.

The game offers a variety of modes (Adventure, Versus, Destruction, Melee). While Destruction is pointless, the other modes should give the game some longevity. The addition of Bots for the Melee mode boosts the replay value well above the GC version.

The drawback to the gameplay is the collision detection. At times, your character can be standing right next to a building and not be able to pick it up. Even more annoying is getting hit when you should be out of the opponents sites.

Graphics and sound:
The sound is superb - hands down. All of the yells and screams the monsters make in the movie are represented perfectly.

Graphics are a mixed bag. The monsters look great, but the arenas are often bland and look unfinished. The most disheartening aspect of the graphics is the building destruction - they fall down as if they were precision dynamited, not stomped on by a giant lizard.

The good, the bad, the....sequel?
The good:
Anyone who gets even the slightest pleasure from watching the cheezy 60s and 70s Japanese movies about giant intergalactic monsters wreaking havok on Tokyo will enjoy this game. You get to crush cities as Godzilla or your favorite Godzilla foe. The monsters look like you remember them (probably better) and sound good too.

As an added bonus you get to fight in melee mode - four monsters, one city - it's chaos! YES!

I appreciate the strange way the action in this game works - your monster is trying to save the earth by battling the other monsters but sometimes the military starts trying to kill you. There's also some weird flying saucer hovering around. Stuff like that, which adds to the feel that you are playing an updated version of the movies, just makes it more fun.

The bad:
In order to play as any of the monsters other than Godzilla, Anguirus, Megalon or Gigan, you have to beat adventure mode, which is an eight battle game. Every time you defeat adventure mode you unlock another monster. The problem is there is no saving during a game so you either play all the way through or give up and start all over again next time. Same things with cities. It can be frustrating.

The damage to cities and buildings is pretty unrealistic - sometimes you fall right on a building and nothing happens. Sometimes you walk over a building and it turns to dust.

The controls are a little tough especially with the camera angles - you can't always see where you're going or what you're doing.

The sequel?
If they could fix those things that are "bad", and maybe add a couple of other monsters - King Kong, maybe Gamera the flying space turtle, and some of the more obscure monsters - that would make a game well worth buying.

Bottom line: this does what Rampage, a fun game in its own right, tried so hard to do - captures the feeling of those cheezy 60s monster movies with class.