Godzilla Unleashed

Metachronos overall score = 3.6 / 10

Positive
- Godzilla is in this game!
- Looks like a Godzilla game should look

Negative
- Terrible targeting system
- Short, pointless campaign
- The AI is weirdly inconsistent
- Generally awful production

Common thoughts when watching a Godzilla movie: "If you told girls you were the guy in the rubber suit, would they believe you?", and "If Godzilla spit at King Kong, wouldn't all his hair catch on fire? How is that even a contest?" A less common thought, on the other scaly claw, is: "Man, Godzilla is pretty cool, but someone should let that guy off his leash!" Don't tell this to Atari, though, because the company seems to be under the impression that it has finally liberated everyone's favorite fire-spitting lizard in its recent city-crushing romp, Godzilla: Unleashed.



At least it looks pretty. When you're far from other monsters and the camera pulls out to keep everyone on the screen, it really looks like you're watching a monster battle in a realistic cityscape from a bird's-eye view. The breath attacks cut through the air in bright oranges and yellow, wavy lines, and warplanes and UFOs shoot rockets and rays at all and sundry. Unfortunately, the sound bytes aren't great. Most (though not all) of the monster noises are here, but the music is bad, the voice acting is horrendous, and the effects are generic. We aren't sure why you'd try to inflict this disaster on multiple players, though that's an option. Really, though, you shouldn't even inflict this on one player: namely, yourself. Although Godzilla: Unleashed looks good, it's an incredibly boring game to play, with busted mechanics and short-bus AI. The short and wimpy single-player campaign doesn't help matters, nor does the fact that the game seems to expect you to play through it a dozen times to unlock some of the cooler monsters. All in all, you should let this sleeping dragon lie.

lol isn't godzilla pretty old?

i think so

lol these guys must be bored