War Of The Monsters (PS2)

It's quite ironic really, given that they own the American distribution rights to the character, that Sony's PS2 console was the only member of 'the big 3' that didn't recieve a port of Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee. I've no idea why this happened, and the PS2 got it's own port of the game's sequel, Godzilla: Save The Earth, but up until that point, fans of Giant Monster movies, be they B&W classics, schlocky Atomic mutant movies or Japanese Kaiju Eiga, had to make do with Sony's own War of the Monsters. Nothing to do with the Gamera movie of the same name, is really like an updating of SNK's King of the Monsters via Capcom's Tech Romancer. You ...  Read the complete review

Do you like Kaiju? Sure, we all do. War of the Monsters, brought to you from the team that developed the Twisted Metal series (Incog), is a game that pays tribute to all the giant monster movies so many of us grew up with and still love today. The simple but excellent gameplay aside, War of the Monsters is a must for any psycho-fan of men in rubber suits destroying cardboard cities. The game pays tribute to King Kong, The Deadly Mantis, Them!, All sorts of Godzilla movies, Zort!, Mars Attacks, Pulgasari....all sorts of classic Kaiju flicks that the monster geek within us can't help but love. Well, that might not be true but I know that this game makes the geek ...  Read the complete review