War of the Monsters (PS2)

• You are a 100 feet tall monster.
• Pulverize other monsters and fight off defenses.
• 10 huge creatures engaging in all out mayhem.
• 10 fully interactive environments.
• For 1-2 players.

Product Description ------------------- Get ready to embody the soul of a 100-foot-tall monstrosity as you clash with nents in thriving cities, run rampant through bustling streets, pulverise nents with body slams, and fight off defences. War of the Monsters lets you relive your favourite monster movies with 10 different creatures engaging in all-out carnage. Ten fully interactive environments offer numerous weapons, including steel girders, radio antennas, moving vehicles, building rubble, army tanks, and more. Clobber nents with thunderous uppercuts, hand-to-hand weapons, and destructive special attacks. Use huge hunks of debris as a shield, topple buildings onto your foes, or pick up and throw tanker trucks like toys. Take advantage of environmental attacks such as tidal waves and earthquakes to defeat your nent and cl total domination. Skilfully scale towering buildings, wage war on rooftops, and bring them cing down. .co.uk Review ------------- The idea of giant beasties stomping around major cities beating each other up and using tanks for boxing gloves is made digital reality in War of the Monsters More Power Stone than Tekken, the game doesn't feature tons of combos and moves but instead depends on the way you use the environment. Nearly everything--from fire engines to poles--can be picked up and thrown or used as a cudgel and you can run around the large arenas as you will, climbing up buildings and hiding behind skyscrapers. Indeed, in many ways War of the Monsters feels more like a real (in the Hollywood sense of the word) fight than many a more serious beat-'em-up, since combatants often break off their attack to go and find a power-up or an extra weapon rather than just standing two inches in front of each other for the entire length of the barney. Pretty much everything in the game works perfectly: the graphics are sharp and crisp, the environments and characters are varied and interesting and only the innate shallowness and odd split-screen two-player mode could possibly be considered drawbacks. --David Jenkins