Eww, Cool! Deadly Creatures Impressions
I didn’t know very much about THQ’s Wii-exclusive Deadly Creatures until now, but after seeing a fairly early build of the game at the publisher’s Fall and holiday preview event today, I’m looking forward to learning more – and tickled gleefully squeamish, too.
THQ’s Rainbow Studios, known for the Cars game and the MX vs. ATV series, developed Deadly Creatures as a "labor of love," according to the rep, since the studio’s based in Arizona, where its team was inspired by the desert crawlies native to the warm region.
As such, in Deadly Creatures, you can play the action-adventure game either as a venomous scorpion or fabulously gross tarantula, and the different strengths and weaknesses of each animal mean that navigating the game’s areas and defeating its bosses, which include a rattlesnake, a gila monster and a horned lizard, among others.
After watching the rep demo it for me, here’s what stood out:
