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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 209
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
MPN: 17398
UPC: 008888173984
EAN: 0008888173984
ASIN: B000X25GW2
Release Date: January 23, 2008
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| • | Product #: 17398 | | • | Manufacturer: Ubisoft | | • | Manufacturer Item #: 17398 | | • | UPC: 008888173984 |
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Product Description
You are Travis Touchdown, a normal guy (with an otaku geek streak) who wins a Beam Katana through an online auction and uses the weapon to start a new career as a professional killer. One day, an assassin named Helter Skelter appears before Travis and the two face off in a battle. Travis emerges victorious and finds himself in the presence of Silvia Christel, a mysterious French woman who claims to be an agent with the UAA. Silvia gives Travis official rank of 11 in the organization. Now, it's up to you to become #1. No More Heroes takes place in the city of Santa Destroy, and you are free to explore the town to your liking, taking on missions large and small to collect money and purchase new weapons as you work up towards the 10 main killing contracts. Gameplay is all about using your Beam Katana (via Wii remote) to defeat enemies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 71 more reviews...
 Overrated January 4, 2009
Orrinsf (Vail, AZ)
I, like many people that reviewed this game, bought it after I had read all of the great reviews on the online gaming sites. I don't have much games at all on my Wii, so I decided to buy a new one. This one seemed promising, at least from the reviews, so I decided to pay something around $15 for my copy.
After playing the game the whole way through, I can safely say that this is possibly one of the most overrated games I have EVER played.
I'll talk about the good first:
-The bosses in the game are very unique, so at least it is fairly interesting to listen to their cut scenes and to fight them.
-The different katanas are all a little different, bordering on speed and strength, so it is sort of interesting to try and get the next model as you progress.
-The game uses the wiimote in unique ways, every so often.
Now I'll talk about the bad.
The reason that this game received such good reviews is because of the fighting system. I'm sorry, but I found nothing particularly interesting in that department. All I had to do to beat the ENTIRE game was press the A button over and over and over and over, even in the boss battles. Like I said before, the bosses were cool looking, but it was hard to appreciate their difference when all I had to do to kill them is to press one button for maybe a minute. **SPOILER** In fact, there is one point when there is a long tunnel leading to a boss with maybe a total of 5 enemies in it that takes about 10 minutes of non-stop running to finish. After that waste of time, I was expecting a good boss battle for once. The cut scene shows the boss, and then shows some guy killing him and then you're shoved back to the motel to save your game. I was dumbfounded that I didn't get to fight any boss. What the hell? I ran through a freaking tunnel for 10 whole minutes doing nothing to see a stupid cut scene and then start collecting more money for another fight? There's also a boss battle where the only thing you have to do to beat the boss is run towards her and then you see another cut scene where she dies. The only thing you need to do is run up a couple of ways, hide behind a barrier, and then repeat that same step over and over and over and over, just like the fighting system. **END SPOILER**
Then there is the story-line. It tells you nothing at the beginning, so you have to kind of catch-on by yourself. That is a little it of a pain, but it's soon easy to figure out. The problem is, though, is that most of the character development and descriptions come at the end. If I hadn't read about this game before playing it, I would never have known why I had a beam sword, or whatever it's called, and that I had bought it from the same person that sells me their parts. The entire game would have been a confused mess of jumbled up pieces, at least until the end. At the end of the game, the entire story is pieced together, and it all makes some sense (SOME). But by this time, I'm too confused and bored to play through the game another time just so I can understand everything.
There's also the fact that the gameplay is so easy that all you have to do is set the controller on the ground and press the A button to beat a boss. When it is that easy to progress through the game, there is no point in trying to vary the different fighting moves that the game presents. You can learn different wrestling moves, but the funny thing is, I learned all of them that I could, and every time I tried to use them, I always performed the same move that I did when I first started the game. Basically, there was no variation, even though I spent buttloads of money trying to learn new ones.
Everyone who says this game is so perfect and brilliant obviously has never played a good game. I understand that the blood and guts might turn people on, but that is a sad reason to buy a game, even for the low prices it's going for now. I think that this game shows how many horrible games are out there, in terms of action, on the Wii. Developers should take notice and try to create a game with some depth and difficulty for all of the players out there that don't want to play a game where all you do is press A over and over again.
The only reason you should buy this game is if you have money to waste (and I mean waste) and like games that are pure button-smashers, because that is all this game is.
 Finally an action game for the wii that doesn't suck! January 2, 2009
Katherine K. Slick
Pros:
Very nice cell-shadded graphics
Aside from a few times in the heat of battle, very smooth gameplay
Great controls (especially for a wii game)
No over usage of the wii mote
Amazing combos and moves used in battle
Great boss battles, with entrancing characters
A linear storyline, but has side-missions, side-assassinations, upgrading, and training also
Cons:
side-missions can get a little dull at times, and are sometimes a pain to drive from place to place over and over.
This game is an exciting action slice-em up game that is NOT child friendly. No More Heroes is loaded with profanity, blood, and body parts falling off. I believe No More heroes is at least one of the two best wii games of the year (the other being Super Smash Brothers Brawl).
I recommend this game to anyone who enjoys action and fighting and can take some blood and profanity.
Simply Fun December 29, 2008
Chill
I too just finished this game and completed both endings. In a word AWESOME. The story does make sense. No, it's not spelled out for you in narration, but the developers dropped hints and comments through out cut scenes and fights for you to find and piece together. You may have play through the game a second time to catch key parts that don't make sense until the end (e.g. [spoiler]for example the first assassin is key in explaining how Chrystal does her 'work').
Yes, the bike controls are horrid, but it gets you from point A to B faster. The city vacant, but they already tell you the city is a black hole that everyone wants to avoid. I can nit-pick about many things that if changed, could make this the "game of the year" material, but it doesn't matter once you play the game. It's fun. Like James said, the game great. The dialogue/voice acting was believable and somewhat realistic (some of Crystals monologues were a bit 'much') and funny. They got the game play spot on, which I believe is the most important part, and it's addictive. The missions are full of surprises in the game play, style, the boss that you'll never guess what's next and eager to get to the next one.
On that note, I can't wait for NMH 2.
Mature, extreme goodness December 24, 2008
Darren Jaworski
No More Heroes isn't for children, this is a great hardcore gaming experience for the Wii. If you're like me, I was on the fence about this game for a while, didn't believe the hype, reviews and whatnot. Believe it, and at $20 it is a must buy!
Uber-Violent Fun December 19, 2008
J. Rodriguez (Austin, TX USA)
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.
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