Rampage: Total Destruction

Midway have arrived on the Wii at last, and what better way to make an appearance than with a game that offers the best value for money on the console so far, but with Rampage: Total Destruction only costing £16.99, can it really be any good?

Following a similar formula to the original arcade classic, Total Destruction, elaborates on what made the original so popular, with destructible cities, helicopters buzzing around your head and best of all, monsters with an attitude, 37 monsters altogether in fact, To make things even better you can also upgrade your monster, this is done through completing in game challenges and once complete this enables you to use them in Vs. battle or various multiplayer modes, how's that for carnage?

As you have probably guessed, the object of the campaign mode is to destroy the cities, leaving a mass of destruction behind you, each city comprises of about 8-10 blocks, at the end of of city you will encounter Dr Vector who will try to stop you by using one of his anti monster machines, when you have completely destroyed a city you will then move onto the next area.

At the beginning of the level, you will be given an objective, this will help your character level up if you complete these, this will then give you the benefit of special moves for your character, there are also other monsters to be found during the levels, so it is worth searching behind everything you can, for hidden items.

The multiplayer mode offers three different games, the first of these being King of the City, this offers up to four player the chance to compete against each other to see who can cause the most destruction to each city block, once the blocks are destroyed the winner will then be decided by whoever has the highest score, the next mode is really just an extented version of the first, basically you play numerous rounds and when one player has won more than half of them, he is declared King of the World, there is also a timed run mode in which the city must be destroyed before the time runs out, players can also fight against each other in any of these modes, which is always good for a laugh.

On the graphic side, the characters look great, the environments are full of life and when the buildings crumble to the ground in your path, the effects are quite simply stunning, the animations when your monster gets hit or eats poisonous food is also fun to watch. In addition, the design for each city is unique enough to make you feel that you have moved on, the sound is also present and correct, in fact monsters roaring in the middle of a rampage has never sounded so good.

The games main downfall are the controls, this is mainly evident when you try to climb a building by pushing up on your nunchuck only for your character to walk to the back of the building, you will probably find that this sort of thing happens quite a bit when you try to interact with the background, you can if you wish use just the Wii Remote on it's own, however this just complicates things and it is just so much simpler to plug in your Nunchuck.

Overall despite the annoyance of the controls, the sheer fun to be had in the gameplay makes this worth the money alone, climbing up the side of the building and pounding it with your monsters fist has never been so much fun, so at a price of £16.99 you can you really afford to miss this game?