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it gives me gas

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

EACH TIME I PLAY THIS GAME I GET GAS
I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT I WHOLE HOUSE ENDS UP SMELLING
I TRIED TO RETURN THE GAME BUT THEY SAID THE BOX COVER SMELLED
I AM VERY UPSET AND I DECIDED TO WEAR DIAPERS

Will be one of the best of 2003

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. I am not usually a big fan of brawler games, but this one has plenty to [pull] me in. One, the retro design of the game just oozes style which really appeals to me. The opening intro movie is great, and the cut scenes (which I skip in most games) in adventure mode are specific to whichever monster you choose to play and actually show something about what is going to happen. Cut scenes are easily skipped which is the way it should be. The music is done in a over-the-top symphonic style that fits the old monster movie theme perfectly. It seems to build as you get deeper into a battle and seems to get most dramatic right at the high point of the battle.

The game places you right into the middle of an environment with other monsters to battle. You can pick up things lying around and use them either to hit other monsters if they are within range or you can throw them at them. Cars, planes, fallen pieces of buildings, antennas, water towers, etc. can be picked up. If you pick up something that looks pointy like an antenna, throwing it at another monster will impale them, they will be stuck there for a few seconds and you can really pound them. The environment also contains powerups for health and Special. Maxing out your special points lets the monster do one of its powerful special attacks.

There are 8 different monsters at the beginning. I played through adventure mode with Preytor, a praying mantis monster, and Ultra-V, a robot that sort of resembles Buzz Lightyear. The are a few differences between the monsters-how they fly - Preytor could stay up until his special meter was out while Ultra-V could only blast off and come down-their lazers (Ultra-V's seemed more powerful), and their special attacks. Each monster gets 2 different extra-powerful attacks. I preferred Ultra-V's attacks because he had one you didn't have to aim.

There are easy, medium, and hard settings. I have only played easy, I would hate to see how bad I'd get beat up in hard setting as the computer controlled monsters in this game seem to be incredibly smart. During a battle if they start to get low on health, they will leave you and go look for health powerups. They block and use different kinds of attacks which mixes you up to the point you could swear you were playing another person.

I have played the game in two modes, two-player and adventure mode. I played two player with my son who didn't like getting beat up - so we just added a couple of CPU monsters into the mix and both beat them up instead. Adventure mode for one player is a series of battles with some bosses mixed in The bosses are the standard "figure out the pattern" type but they are new monsters instead of just harder versions of the 8 characters. Adventure mode can be played through in 6-8 hours for a beginner on easy but more gameplay is availibale by playing through with a different monster - the series of enemy monsters and places is the same each time however. Completing each battle in adventure mode earns battle tokens which can be used to unlock "skins" which amount to different paint jobs for each monster.

On the down side there are a few things that stop this game from being perfect. First, it can get frustrating. The levels should be challenging but maybe not take a few hours to beat on easy mode. Second, the game suffers from camera problems. Sometimes your character gets around facing the camera which makes it hard to figure out which way to move. When attacking a monster from long range, you lock on to it then shoot or throw things at it. If you don't lock on, you will miss - why can't it lock on automatically?. Then when you try to lock on in a 2 monster battle, sometimes it picks the monster you don't want and you can't retarget to the other one. Finally sometimes you can be standing around and you will just blow up and lose 1/4 of your health - obviously one of the other monsters throws something at you but you never see it coming - maybe some kind of "incoming" warning would be nice like a falling whistle sound.

But the bottom like is that with falling buildings, big monsters, and the ability to pick up most anything and use it as a weapon, how could you go wrong?

War of the Monsters by Sony Computer Entertainment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun if you like fighting games.This game is hard because you have to battle monsters like you to get tokens which helps you to unlock tracks and monsters.This game allows you to pick up items like spears and then lets you throw them at somebody and then you can pick the person up and throw them really far.This is an excellent game.

FROM THE MAKERS OF TWISTED METAL BLACK

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is probably one of the only games of its kind.Its nothing like godzilla melee.Almost everything is destructive or responsive.The characters are great and most are based from old monster movies.There are also 2 unlockable characters and tons of levels.Theres also 4 costumes for each monster and the first 2 are free.Heres a secret,if you have twisted metal black and have a saved game on your ps2 you can unlock the sweet tooth costume which is agamos 4th costume.You can through spears,rubbel,cars,airplanes,etc.The only bad thing is its only 2 players.Otherwise,this is a great game.

An Awesome Game Where Monsters Rule

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was postively awesome. It is bassically a fighting game for up to 2 players, and when playing multiplayer it resorts to a split screen mode which eventually resorts to a full screen combat when all combatants in the arena gather in one placed to brawl. The game is simply amazing, as you climb tall buildings and jump from rooftop to rooftop. Most of the enviorment is fully interactive from the sword in Gambler's Gulch which you can take out and use as a powerful weapon to the UFO in one arena where you can toss something at it and create a huge tsnumai. The game is simply amazing. The graphics are great and the fighting is also awesome. When you pummel a building it either slowly sinks into the ground, or sometimes it cracks in half and falls crushing any unspespecting monsters. This is a great game, and the fighting is absolutely seamless. The enviorment is so fully interactive that you can battle in a huge city and soon there will be no buildings left. When you can jump from rooftop to rooftop it is absolutely amazing, espesially when you and an opposing monster take to the rooftops to a battle high above the ground.

Monster Mayhem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

War of the monsters is a greatly polished game. The animations and drawing look great.Oh, and you can't forget about those great graphics. I'll tell you there is nothing better then picking up a piece of metal and sticking it through oppennet.
The game is basically a free-for-all with little replay for one player. In the game you pick a monster and u just kill erverything and every1.You can pick up just about anything is this game like cars,sharp pieces of metal,tanks,bolders,and so on. But this game has some problems. it is kinda difficult and is probaly for an experieced gamer,but if your a newbie still pick this up. also the controls arent very good and you will be doing alot of button mashing. But overall this game is great and any1 can jump into this and have fun.

many flaws with this game, but still fun to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game's premise:

Aliens invades Earth. Earth counterattacks the aliens, and destroy some of their spaceships. The 'juice' that leaks from the aliens' spaceships give rise to a whole new threat to Earth's existence: giant monsters!

Anyways, you initially start off with a cast of 8 playable monsters - each monster starts off with 2 different costumes you can choose from. Later, you can unlock 2 more costumes for each character. In addition to that, you can unlock 2 extra monsters.

To "unlock" a feature, you have to play the game in either Adventure Mode or Endurance Mode. The further you progress, the more "tokens" you'll get. And with those tokens, you can purchase ("unlock") extra features such as Maps, Costumes, Characters and Mini-games.

There are two problems with unlocking items: the unlockable items are WAY TOO expensive, and most of the extras are WORTHLESS. I'd definitely pass on purchasing the mini-games because they're ridiculously boring. And 2 of the unlockable maps are horrid. As for the extra costumes you can purchase, SOME of them are cool-looking...but they're all horribly overpriced. With the current pricing of unlockable items, you have to beat the game way too many times to unlock all of the extras.

Or shall I say "most" of the extras? (aside from the maps you automatically win in Adventure Mode)

There is one other extra feature out there that can't be bought: and that's Sweet-tooth's costume for Magmo (or whoever that was). In order to "unlock" this extra costume, you have to go out and BUY "Twisted Metal: Black," and beat the game with every character, and then save it to your disk. Whoever thought of the extra-features is, simply-put, a complete imbecile. That's the nicest thing I can say about the extra-features.

I'm going to say you'll only like this game if you're a fan of giant monster movies like "Godzilla," "King Kong," "Rodan," etc...if you're not, then you'll probably find this game a bit repetitive and lackluster (because it is). If you ask me, the controls are way too simplistic. Also, there's way too much of a generic feel for the buttons/contols regardless of the monster you pick. If I was grading this as a regular videogamer, I'd probably give it a 1-star rating. But since I'm grading this as a lover of monster movies, I'm gonna give this 4 stars since I can't seem to find any game like this on the PS2 devoted to giant monsters...

An Awesome Monster Brawl

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is like Super Smash Bros. Melee for Gamecube but you have more manuverablility and you are playing with 100-foot tall monsters!
This game is really fun playing versus your fiends or playing versus computers. The computers are challenging, even in Easy mode!
You can destroy every visible object in every level. You can set off volcaninc eruptions, tidal waves, earthquakes, etc.
This game is very realistic. You can use your environment to demolish your opponent...like grabbing helicopters from the air, blowing up your opponent with a fuel truck....
You can also play baseball! If you have a steel girder, and someone throws an item at you (besides a weapon that you can be impaled with) you can bat it right back at them if you swing at the right time! You can also catch most objects if you time it right.
Adventure mode is very entertaining. The bosses are fun to beat.
When you either kill a certain amount of monsters in endurance mode or by playing adventure mode, you earn tokens. You need tokens to unlock stuff. Even though it is hard to unlock stuff (it takes a long time to earn enough tokens to buy something because they are expensive), it can be made easier by beating the game, and then when you load the game you have beaten already, you'll be fighting the last boss again. He gives you a lot of tokens, and he is pretty easy to beat (at least, in easy mode) after you beat him once.
This game is awesome, bottom line.

best fighting game on ps2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the best games ever. all of the levels are fully destructible. another good thing about it is you can throw just about anything you see. its also funny seeing the people when they get smashed and the blood is all over the ground. i highly recomend this game to someone who loves fighting games and a little humor along with it. BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monster play time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Son enjoys this game because he can be a monster and destroy things without getting in trouble...

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