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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 382
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
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Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 17398
UPC: 008888173984
EAN: 0008888173984
ASIN: B000X25GW2
Release Date: January 23, 2008
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A breath of fresh bloody air for the Wii January 24, 2008
Christian Paglinawan (NJ)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
While the fighting controls aren't as in-depth or varied as I'd like it to be, overall this is a great game. It's in-your-face, fun and a nice change of pace from all the shovelware that is out for the Wii. Support 3rd party developers for the Wii bu buying this game!
 Why most reviews of this game are wrong. February 9, 2008
Ronald Reagan
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
This isn't really a review so much as a few comments detailing the misconceptions that might arise from reading various reviews of No More Heroes. I have also added my own views on what made this game not as totally awesome as I had initially expected (for the benefit of the potential reader, of course; no need to thank me, I consider myself a real life hero of sorts).
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You might read (I'm too lazy to cite sources) in the occasional review that this game is short. This is an understatement. I beat the game in under 10 hours, obtaining every possible augmentation for the beam katana, every wrestling move (I think), every fitness upgrade. This is not something that should happen in a game I shelled out $50 for. I should have to complete so many story-related missions to finish the main game that I get sick of it, leave the game in my closet for a couple of decades, then resell it on eBay as a collectors item for oodles of cash (or PayPal or whatever).
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This is not GTA. There is no reason to complain about not being able to run around while decapitating hookers. It's not an open-ended exploration game with multiple branching choice tree...things. It's a third-person action game, that's made in such a stupid way as to give gullible gamers the illusion of nonlinearity. Yeah, there's not enough to do in the town (which is unnecessarily huge, by the way), but you shouldn't have to do much anyway. Unless you spend all your money on clothes (in which case I pity you), you shouldn't have to complete more than a few side missions in order to obtain the cash necessary to upgrade your weapon (and yourself), as well as buy your way into the next ranked fight.
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If you had to murder your way through 20 hours worth of generic sword-wielding men in black business suits, then you can complain about repetition. If the indiscriminate killing is under 10 hours, then it's still fun. Especially since all those fights are just warm-ups for the boss battles. Which, by the way, are awesome. They're truly the highlight of the game and the only reason I gave it 3 stars.
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The plot doesn't make any sense, so don't even bother with it. Some of the dialog is funny, but Travis has a terrible voice actor and his delivery is always off. Most of the villains are pretty good though, so it balances out.
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Teh graphics suck. Really. GTA 3 on the PS2 looks just as good. After playing Super Mario Galaxy I can see that you can do better on the Wii.
Stylistically speaking, the whole 8-bit, retro menu thing is kinda' lame. It would go well with crisp, beautiful graphics, but with the stuff No More Heroes is showing, the menus only remind me of how ugly the rest of the game looks.
If I were the kind of person to summarize instead of writing long, rambling and incoherent behemoth reviews, I'd say that No More Heroes is worth a rental, but I wouldn't plan on having it last until Brawl comes out.
 So much fun! January 24, 2008
Rick (Jersey CIty, New Jersey United States)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you guys have been waiting for a true mature videogame for the Wii and don't think remakes like RE4 Wii and Umbrella Chronicles are cutting it for you, No More Heroes is where you want to be.
Man this game is awesome and so much fun. Travis Touchdown is going to be among the most quoted videogame characters for the rest of 2008 and the over the top violence is just a blast.
The graphics are like Killer7 but the gameplay is much better and it never gets old swinging your wii-mote around decapitating the evil henchmen of the assassins. It's so totally worth you money!
Fairly disappointing March 26, 2008
Not my real name (Austin, Tx)
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I guess a lot of people seem to really like this game, but I couldn't figure out why. The graphics are actually quite dull for the most part. The "shading" is actually just ugly pure black sections of otherwise completely lit people and doesn't look like shading at all because there is nothing between solid black and glowingly lit. The backgrounds are simple and thoroughly unimaginative, and the characters aren't very interesting either. Not a single thing in this game looked truly original and I just felt like I had seen it all before... some of it 20 years ago. People seem to be impressed with the level of gore for a Wii game, but I guess those people haven't played Resdient Evil 4, Manhunt 2, or House of the Dead 2 & 3 because this game seriously pales in comparison as far as the violence is concerned. Basically, a giant inexplicable red cloud bursts out of your enemies as they turn into a bunch of coins. Maybe if they shattered into body parts I would actually consider calling it graphic, but coins just aren't my idea of violent. All the tons of random red bursts and spurts obviously suggest blood, but don't resemble it in any real way. To say that "No More Heroes" is the mature title Wii owners have been waiting for is really absurd... I've seen children's cartoons that were more graphic than this. Resident Evil 4, which came out much earlier, completely puts this shallow and lazily animated game to shame. You're forced to navigate the city on your rather cumbersome bike, which controls so poorly that it's much more obnoxious than fun. The entire city could just be a menu where you select what you want and move on instead of wasting all this time "driving" to what you want to do next. The controls are fairly pathetic: you're supposed to follow the on-screen cues (which I never thought was a very good use of the motion sensors to begin with) but in reality all you have to do is shake your remote real fast and it will work for any of the on-screen cues, rendering them completely pointless. There are some things that I enjoyed about this game, like some of the humor and certain aspects of its style, but overall it just wasn't very fun to play. A true waste of a good Wii in my opinion; there are MUCH better games out there.
Graphics - Unimaginative characters, atrocious shading, and backgrounds that belong in the early 90's
Violent content - COINS? Are you kidding me? COINS?!?!
Gameplay - Flail the remote around and you've now mastered the motion controls, no matter what pops up on the screen
Humor - Scattered bits and pieces to make you smirk... certainly nothing to warrant a real laugh
 Way overrated March 5, 2008
T. Gentry (Seattle, WA)
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
This was a huge letdown. I read so many reviews about how great this game was so I forked over $50 expecting to be rewarded with a great fighting game for the Wii. First off what's good: the humor and the way the Wii controller is used as a cell phone. That's about it really. Now the bad: The level design is horrid and boring. I guess the designers felt that if they put this stylized filter over it they wouldn't have to do things like texture anything or design a level more complicated than a square room, multiplied ten times. Not to mention you get clipped by invisible objects and the camera can't follow you in tight corridors. You actually disappear off screen and just have to imagine you can actually see your character. The 'light saber' is cool in theory, but unfortunately you don't have to employ any kind of skill or strategy to win in battle. Just mash the A button over and over and press other buttons at random. You'll basically kill every enemy. To sum it up I'd like write to every magazine that gave this a good review and have them pony up some cash to help me recoup my losses.
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