Gameinformer | Godzilla

Godzilla gives us an intimate look at the gracelessness of a man in a rubber lizard suit. This lumbering titan controls like an oil tanker at sea. He moves slowly – almost appearing to suffer from crippling arthritis with each thundering step he makes. When he faces off again rival kaiju, it looks like two actors with limited vision are aimlessly thrashing around, praying their actions look cool. Perhaps developer Natsume Atari intended to replicate the experience of wearing a Godzilla costume while filming a movie, but no gamer should ever have to endure gameplay this cumbersome and poorly designed.

[Bigpappy]

That's brutal. The score is bad, but the words are as mean is I can ever recall reading.

[lvl_headed_gmr]

What is going through Sonys mind to approve this garbage on any Sony System?

Get some standards Sony.

[Rimeskeem]

Godzilla is Japanese......

Also MS allowed the fighter within soo

[fanboysmackdown]

Your comment is extremely childish. At least MS was trying to justify the Kinect....what's Sony trying to justify with this turd?

[Rimeskeem]

Cheer,

IDK they probably arent trying to justify it. I dont see them going out and defending it.

[fanboysmackdown]

So what's your point in bringing up a Microsoft game when it has nothing to do with this turd of a game.

[MysticStrummer]

icheer - What's the point of pretending there aren't turds on all consoles, and have been since the beginning of the home gaming industry?

[rainslacker]

Sony didn't develop or publish the game, all they did was approve the license to allow it to be released on the system. None of the console manufacturers make any kind of judgement call on the quality or playability or whether a game is worthwhile or not. The only thing devs/pubs have to worry about is passing compliance testing, which just makes sure that the game doesn't crash the system, and that all interactions that deal with the system software are consistent with their policies.

The last thing we want is for console manufacturers to start being the gatekeepers to decide what is a good, and what is a bad game.

In any case, one, or a few bad reviews do not make a game crappy...although this game may be crappy. I had doubts given the subject matter, and the way the devs were trying to approach it.

[Ghoul]

but we gotta take something into perspective here,
this game is for the asian market especially Japan and it could be possible that they like this gamme how it is ?

[rainslacker]

I certainly can't speak for the entirety of the Japanese public that played this game, or has an opinion on it.

From my experience, outside of presentation, they seem to have a similar viewpoint as most gamers worldwide that bad game play makes a bad game.

Just because they can have some unique tastes in presentation doesn't really mean that the game play can suck.

[TheColbertinator]

Good job Sony

[gangsta_red]

Yea, it's pretty unanimous how bad this game is.

By the way, I used the pic of Godzilla from the movie GMK which in my opinion was the best Godzilla film I have seen in a long time.

[JWiLL552]

Sony bashing? Really?

Sony had no involvement in this titles development.

Pick your battles better, sad little console warriors.

[fanboysmackdown]

How did Sony have no involvement when it's a Sony exclusive? Pick your battles.....lol.

[4Sh0w]

Cheer, yeah but its not a 1st party exclusive IP so sony has no control over the quality of the game develoment.....its no different than some of the bad multiplatform games that are developed for both X1 and ps4, micro and sony are not in control of it, the only difference here is that this dev likely just chose to cut a low budget exclusive deal with sony while making a cheap Godzilla game for a quick ps4 cash grab.

[SilentNegotiator]

And Yaris was an Xbox exclusive.

What's your point?

[rainslacker]

@4Show

The more likely scenario is that the game was not really meant for a western release, so no version was made except for the systems that the Japanese people actually have. Since the xbox doesn't sell in Japan, there was no reason to port it there just for the western release. It's pretty much the same reason why most of those niche JRPG's are exclusive to 3DS or PS platforms. No money has to change hands to not make a version of the game that isn't likely to return a profit.

[psplova]

Man. I was really looking forward to this one too... /s

[Ipunchbabiesforfun]

hahahahahaha this review is hysterical.

[WeAreLegion]

If you like Godzilla, you'll love this game. Disregard the reviews. Seriously.

[4Sh0w]

I respect your comments but this one seems like the devs just flat out failed in almost every aspect of what normally satisfies as a good game....I dont think Godzilla fans should settle for a subpar effort just because we want a Godzilla game so badly, if only so the next dev attempting to create a Godzilla game - understands Godzilla fans want a good goddamm Godzilla game= do it right.....I mean serious question do you think Naughty Dog or 343, etc would have given this type of effort???..hell I can think of a long list of studios who could turn out something amazing with this IP.

[rainslacker]

There have been quite a few Godzilla games over the years, and all of them are pretty crappy. There is only so much you can do with a slow moving monster, and subject matter that didn't bother with trying to be super action packed.

The Godzilla movies were usually about the people, and not about the monsters. Monsters were just there for story purposes.

[4Sh0w]

@rainslacker
"There is only so much you can do with a slow moving monster, and subject matter that didn't bother with trying to be super action packed."

-huh, are you serious??? how about we start with animations, which frankly look horrendous in the vids, then since he's slow how about making it chaotic giving Godzilla alot to do between moving from point A to point B to C, D, etc before ultimately destroying the the generators, instead of smashing only simple buildings= wheres a constant barage of Tanks(only 3 everytime, wtf?), Helicopters, and Fighter Jets with varying degrees of difficulty depending on the stage/level, then of course why not vary up Monsters attack pattern instead of just EVERYTIME halfaway through destroying a generator, then how about the obvious repetition of the stages themselves, I mean Ive seen where alot more varied game get hit with the easy "repetitive" tag but my godness this game is a textbook definition of that. Then most importantly how about some decent fighting mechanics, the controls just are not well done the core fighting system is shoddy -I mean stuff like poor hit detection, no real combos, blocking, and especially a lack of targeting system is just downright unforgivable in a 2015 AAA game (judging by the price only at least thats where it fits but in truth its more like a mobile experience). All this and I didnt even mention the graphics.

-I'm sorry this is completely on the devs, doesnt seem they bothered to do more than those past "crappy" Godzilla games you speak of, which I played -difference is this is 2015 with better hardware and higher expectations for an exclusive, no way you're gonna convince me that Naughty Dog, 343, RockStar, Bethesda, Rocksteady, Insomniac, Santa Monica, Coalition, etc hell even any of Activision, Ubi, EA studios wouldnt have done better job if nothing else at least in effort whether the final execution was flawed or not who knows but yeah this was a subpar effort....and saying we cant expect any better for Godzilla is setting standards to a scary level for the next Godzilla game.

btw Godzilla movies have plenty of action, obviously not great cinematics/special effects in the classics but definitely the hook was Godzilla rampaging= action. I dont remember the classics ever having memorable characters with depth, it was the stories that were usually very cheesy and laughable.

[maniacmayhem]

@Rain

I see you trying to defend this game and make excuses for some unknown reason.

Have you even played the Godzilla games that were on the Gamecube? Godzilla Melee was not a crappy game and did not have tank controls as explained in this game and the monsters didn't move like molasses as almost every review states for this game.

Stop trying to justify a bad game just because it's associated with a cheesy franchise or mainly because it's a Sony game.

[rainslacker]

I'm not trying to defend the game at all. I think the two of you are missing the context of my argument.

I'm not saying that it's a good game because it's true to the source material, I'm saying it's probably not a good game due to the source material. The source material doesn't immediately negate any negatives that it may bring to game play scenarios. If it's a bad game, it's a bad game.

My point was that given the subject matter, how much can you really do with it to make compelling game play. I mean, just look at the more recent Godzilla movies. You notice how they change Godzilla enough to not be so lumbering and more like what you'd expect from an actual creature used to it's body? They do this, because the original Godzilla is both funny and boring to watch by today's standards, and if you throw that into a game, it's probably going to be funny and boring to play like that.

To use another example to showcase my point,

An Evangelion game with a slow lumbering story line full of teenage angst and thoughtful introspection in overly convoluted cut-scenes with the occasional fight against a single Angel and plenty of Deus Ex Machina moments, does not make compelling game play. Might make a decent story, but the game play has to be good....except for maybe a visual novel style approach, but I digress.

@4show

I agree, Godzilla movies, for their time, and any recent or reboot versions do have a good amount of action from the monsters. But the actual story tends to focus on the characters that are affected by the monsters. A monster movie that just showed a monster battling it out without another monster, and destroying cities would get boring pretty fast....which is why the focus is on the human aspect, not the monsters motivations. Looking at the most recent US version, the story was more about the guy getting back to his family, and the things he had to go through, due to the monsters duking it out.

@maniac

Admittedly, I did not play it. I certainly over exaggerated the "all" part of godzilla games over the years. I've played my fair share over the years, because I do like Godzilla, but I always found the games for them have come up short. Forgive my oversight, as I didn't have a GC back in the day. I actually do have one now, and do have that game in my collection, so I'll check it out sometime next week.

[4Sh0w]

@rainslacker

OK bro, while I dont agree with your point of view I do appreciate the mature response, you're one of the legit gamers so we'll just have to leave it at that.

[user6697483]

At least it doesn't sound E.T. bad. I would rather get kicked in the nuts then play the E.T. game again.