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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $18.99
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New (13) Used (11) from $15.75
Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 137
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
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MPN: 17398
UPC: 008888173984
EAN: 0008888173984
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Uber-Violent Fun December 19, 2008
This is one of the few games I've enjoyed enough to finish the whole thing. Each level is absolute fun. The controls take a little while to get the hang of, but once you do it's very additive. Keep in mind this is VERY violent and parents should realize this is "R" before buying. If you are squeamish, don't get it. If you like big blasts of exploding victims then this is for YOU. My biggest complaint is it takes forever to get the $$ to go the next level. However, if it was *that* much easier the game would be over in a matter of hours. As it is, it's not a very long game - which is fine by me. I hate games that take months to finish. You will LOVE the sword fighting. It's intuitive and fairly easy to work with on the Wii.
 If you like anime, blood and violence, you will love No More Heroes. December 15, 2008
One of the biggest dissapointments of the wii console is the lack of good titles in its library, specially from third-party companies. This is when I trury appreciate the apparision of good titles.br /br /No More Heroes is unique on its nature, being one of the best of the year 2008. Blood, crude mature humor and a manga style, make it an excellent option. The story of Travis Touchdown, a ciberpunk who buys his beam katana by ebay, looking for being the first ranked killer around the world. Inside the game you will find influences from Kill Bill, Sailor Moon, Anime, Mo-ehs and mexican wrestling.br /br /Playing this you will find an original gamaplay including the use of the wii motion to finish your enemies, a quite good an funny story, good soundtrack an amazing graphic art. As cons sometimes it could turn a little bit repetitive an controls could get a little bit sticky. But in general, you wont be dissapointed of this game.
 One of the worst games Ive ever played December 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Completely repetitive and formulaic. Its one of the worst games I have ever played. The blood is just ridiculous. I could see maybe some extra flash of gore on the boss kills, but every single enemy has their head cut off with a FOUNTAIN of blood. Gets old fast.
 Very Disappointing December 8, 2008
Two things prompted me to purchase this game; the positive reviews from online gaming sites and the low price. What I ended up with is one of the most overrated games I have ever played. The game starts off well enough with a helpful tutorial. The fighting engine is interesting and puts the Wii remote to good use. Next, players are launched into the action exploring a mansion and testing out new skills. Right off the bat I was disappointed to see that players have essentially no interaction with the environment. Goldeneye was doing environmental destruction over a decade ago, would it be so hard for modern games to feature it? Each level consists of fighting through waves of enemy foot soldiers before battling the boss level assassin. For the most part the enemy assassins are creative and fun to fight but it felt like UBI Soft ran out of steam as the enemies seemed to get less interesting as the game progressed..br /br /When my wife saw me playing the driving portion of `No More Heroes' she asked if it was the Wii's version of `Grand Theft Auto'. This was my initial reaction as well. The other game it reminded me of was True Crime: Streets of LA. Despite getting some pretty good reviews in its time I found True Crime to be painfully ugly particularly compared to the spectacular GTA. `No More Heroes' is much better looking than True Crime but it's still a poor mans GTA. The game features a lot of pop-ins as you drive through the city and the frame rate sputters along. The Wii is much more powerful than the GameCube but it still strains to produce a fully realized cities. The dimensions of Santa Destroy (dumb name) are puny compared to the ones in GTA although it is a fairly active city. My last issue is more a stylistic complaint. The designers decided to give everything in the game large jet black shadows but I just don't think it works. The graphics are already a bit muddy and adding all this black only makes it more difficult for the player to see.br /br /It's the fighting portion that got the reviewers attention and it's pretty good but like everything in this game it is extremely repetitive. As the game progresses you acquire a hefty list of wrestling moves. The problem is the wrestling moves are always inferior to the sword so I constantly found myself falling back on slash slash slash. This is symptomatic of a larger failing in the game. Everything is just so darn repetitive. Drive around, earn money, kill lots of people, fight a boss. Repeat.br /br /The thing that defines this game for me most is the refrigerator in your apartment. Opening the refrigerator heals your character completely but there is simply no way you can be in your apartment and not be at full health. It's sort of emblematic of how unfinished the game feels. By the end the designers just seemed to be trying to get the game to the market. Early on the player explores a decently modeled mansion but the lead up to one of the later bosses was just a seemingly endless narrow hallway. I kid you not. A completely non-descript hall with an enemy every 40 or 50 feet. I could think of so many games I would have rather been playing while I slowly walked down the tedious hall.br /br /In the end No More Heroes is a step forward for Nintendo as far as open ended city games are concerned but a step backwards in general as Rockstar has been producing better games in this genre for years on other platforms. The fighting is good but gets old and the exploration was done better by games I played a decade ago. In no area does the game excel not in driving, or fighting or adventuring or collecting. If I had it to do all over again I would not have purchased this game even at the reduced price.
Hipster game requires lots of wrist arm movement December 2, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Lack of seriousness of the game and crazy wrist and arm movement is what turned me off to this game. I bought this game because of Gamespot's somewhat high review. The graphics are like Cel Shading.br /I don't judge games on graphics but game play and immersion.br /This game is Wii shovelware that trys to take advantage of wireless controls. You need to shake the controller for every kill in this game encounter which is ridiculous .br /br /Save your 08 Christmas money...br /
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