black and white style & light hearted brutality

[ShàrkySN]

1.Black White Style

In this age of 1080p resolution, the best stress the idea of “blood” was to immerse users in a game wrapped in black and white.

MadWorld revolves around the themes of brutality and exhilaration. To give MadWorld the graphical edge to match its brutal theme, we tried removing all color from the world except for blood. As a result, we decided the best
concept color

way to convey blood, and thus brutality, was against this black and white backdrop. Knowing that there are no other action games with this sort of avant-garde graphical style, our course was set.

By adding touches from American comics, like the exclamations that appear during action scenes, anyone who knows how it feels to read a comic book (or watch an episode of Tom & Jerry) should instantly be able to enjoy playing MadWorld. We are also taking the simple controls of the Wii and adding a variety of actions to the gameplay mix.


2.Light-hearted Brutality

Often times, brutality is expressed in a spiteful nature. There are already plenty of games out there that hit this mark; however, we decided that MADWORLD’s brutality should be aimed at providing the user with a sense of exhilaration during play.

To give you an example from gameplay, we have a scene where you can pull a street sign from the ground and shove it into a enemy’s head. However, I thought that it is much more fun to stab someone with a sign that actually has some sort of meaning as opposed to a knife. We tried the idea out, and the reaction amongst the team was so positive, I knew this was the way to proceed.

While one type of action is already fun, one of MadWorld’s most innovative points is the ability to link and layer these actions together. For instance, you can grab that enemy with the street sign through his head and throw him against a spiked wall.


3. A Message to Our Fans

We are working with every once of energy we have to give you the great Wii game you’ve been clamoring for. We’ve got more exciting stuff to show in the future, so we hope you’ll keep cheering us on!

Note: MADWORLD is currently scheduled for North American and European release. A Japanese release is currently undecided.

http://www.sega.com/platinumgames/ma...UK/index2.html

[SonicTHP]

The game seems to have similarities to God Hand, which was the best beat-em up of it's generation. I hope that Mad World can show that beat-em ups are not gone at all, and that there is still a lot of fun left in the genre.