Man, everything about this game is so awesome! I’m a big fan of games where you can just violently beat the crap out of everything you see in stylish glory. Older games like River City Ransom and Final Fight did this well and newer games like No More Heroes and Godhand take it up a few notches in the visual department. Speaking of Godhand, Platinum Games consist of developers that worked on that title and other Clover games such as Viewtiful Joe and Okami, and others have experience with the Devil May Cry and Resident Evil franchises. These games feature visceral gameplay and inspired art direction so with an awesome background consisting of some of my favorite games, I’m sure this game will be quite a delight.

I’m looking forward to lots of intense action as Jack goes around Varrigan City just annihilating people in so many ways just for the common people’s entertainment. This game shares something in common with the classic Smash TV where the protagonist(s) is trapped in a setting that is actually a game show that is filmed for television and the goal is to pretty much kill everything and everyone else. There will be lots of crazy special fighting moves and mini-games that will be absurdly violent and over the top, color commentary to go along with the carnage.

The game seems to be focused on fighting and killing and little else, which to me is good. I hope that will be no grinding, fetch quests, matching puzzles, quick-time events or any of the other bad design choices that ruin action games these days. The game is sticking to the point and even the mini-games shown extend the violent nature of the core gameplay. The man darts event in the trailer looks like it will be pretty fun as Jack smacks opponents into an over-sized dart board. The trailer also shows some really crazy fights and Jack himself has a chainsaw strapped to his hand, so I am expecting much more creative violence implemented in the final version of the game. Right now, the game hasn’t been shown in playable form but I am expecting good things and so should you. I’ll definitely be talking more about MadWorld in the future.