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No More Heroes


Or: a videogaming lesson in ten parts

Violence, sex, things to see, things to collect, spectacular graphics and even better sound, a sense of humour, a sense of purpose, an insane logic running through every fiber - and enough swearing to get your TV banned by the authorities. Killer7 creator Suda51 is back, all right.

Our hero, Travis Touchdown, is a motel-dwelling, action figure-collecting, anime-obsessing gamer who wins a lightsaber in an online auction and sets off on a mission to become the world’s number one hitman so he can get the girls. From minute one, you’re cast into the thick of the action, where a whistle-stop cutscene brings you up to date on the story so far and a click of the A button drops you straight on the front doorstep of Hitman #10.

A quick tutorial shows you how to fight and the rest is up to you - the world’s greatest assassins guard themselves with legions of freaks who’ll do their best to slow you down, but they’re sword fodder to be chewed up and spat out before facing the assassins themselves, every one of them completely out of their mind.

When Travis saves, he saves on the toilet; when his batteries run low, he holds the handle at waist height and cranks on it until it fires back up; when love interest Sylvia bends over, he checks out her behind. He’s a simple man with a simple mission, and his world is infected with insanity - villains include British body-mod fetishist Death Metal; Virtual Boy-wearing Letz Shake; and Destroy Man, with his laser-firing crotch. They are, by far, gaming’s strangest bosses, and every one fights a very different fight.


 
5 Comments
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Spidergonzo  - 11 months 26 days ago 
First :D
Too bad. i heard this game was supposed to be really good.
Guess this is going in the pile of games like Okami.
Sad :'(
nateb127  - 10 months 6 hours ago 
spider gonzo what are you talking about?!?! this is a great game. if you can get by the small technical flaws then you are going to have one of the best and most hardcore games on the wii. good review GR completly agree.
stuffblowupnation  - 9 months 28 days ago 
This is THE ONLY WII game this awesone so far. I need it, rather than 4 different pieces of LEGO bull.
barrage7667  - 7 months 5 hours ago 
and wait a minute...OKAMI was amazing so was this spidergonzo thts sad i mean both these games are insane! wat is wrong with u
TrigunGunner  - 2 months 16 days ago 
Goodness, Spidergonzo, you are best described by GR in the review as "the most joyless of non-gamers". And I don't know what drugs you were taking when you said Okami sucked and is among the pile of sad games, but Okami was fantastic and like No More Heroes, is game of the best and most original art. Spidergonzo, you should be ashamed of yourself, you need to go cry in a corner and repent for your stupidity, you joyless non-gamer.
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No More Heroes

Genre: Action
Expected release date: 02/29/2008
Published by: Ubisoft
Developed by: Grasshopper Manufacture
Designer: SUDA51
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
1 player SOLO
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