Midway just announced that it would be publishing Mechanic Master, a game designed by Most Wanted Entertainment that went by "Contraptions" before it was picked up by the publisher. Perusing the developer's website, IGN found that the company is working on another Nintendo DS title: "The Expendables."
This is a action tower defense game themed after the latest The Expendables 3 movie. Control Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and other huge movie stars to shoot down the incoming waves of enemies. Build turrets and Gatling guns to help in reducing the the life of the enemies as they run along the path.
Ugh. I was really hoping for a more improved version of the arcade game Ubisoft made.
It was derivative and base, but it had potential. Better controls, more playable characters, some major bug fixes and better set-pieces and AI and it could have been something. This... goodness, this is jut not the Expendables at all.
GamesRadar: Watching last week's Expendables 2 we noticed something... odd. All of these major actors have been in huge action movies, and yet none had been in great video games. We decided to do some research to see what went wrong, and find the biggest wastes in these stars' video game careers.
Pocket Gamer - Conventional wisdom holds that movie-licensed games are usually bad, even when the movie is good. But what happens when a game is made from a bad movie? The answer is the mess that is The Expendables.
Stunningly bad controls, horrible pacing, and gameplay so shallow that it makes static shooting gallery Metal Gear Solid Touch look like a rousing epic, The Expendables is possibly the worst movie-licensed title to hit iPhone and iPod touch.
