Disaster: Day of Crisis apparently didn’t even reach the top 50 Wii games on release week, let alone the all-formats charts. Hardly surprising, seeing as Nintendo didn’t seem to want anyone to know it existed. I’ve already given my opinion on the game, but in case you don’t trust my ravings, a couple of big sites have reviewed the game today.

First up is Eurogamer’s review, an excellent critique by the reliable John Walker. It only gets 6/10, but the review’s well worth reading because it’s almost as hilarious as the game. Except this time it’s intentional.

Second up is a less amusing but no less effective analysis, this time from IGN. Has to be said that this one is closer to my own opinion - the game gets 8/10, with reviewer Matt Wales concluding thusly:

“Like the disaster movies it takes inspiration from though, Day of Crisis is ultimately more than the sum of its parts. When it works, it’s a relentless, thrilling assault on your senses; a huge grin of game. And when it doesn’t, when it starts to wobble precariously on its own flimsy parts, it’s still compulsive in its creativity, inexplicable in its uniqueness and, most importantly, one thoroughly fun ride.”

He’s right - for all its faults, you can’t say that Disaster isn’t fun, because it really, really is. While other games have pretensions towards art, Monolith’s crazy actioner is just content with entertaining its players. And there should always be room for games which do that.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 11:50 pm by Chris Schilling
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