Slicing, smashing, bludgeoning and bashing its way to store shelves across Europe next month is Platinum Games’ ultraviolent destroy-em-up MadWorld - publisher Sega announcing today that the stylish scrapper will launch on March 20th.

It’s another valiant attempt by the Japanese giant to bring a bit of Mature action for us Wii owners starved of blood, guts, gore and chainsaws. It might be a slightly tougher sell than House of the Dead Overkill, though - shooting zombies with a gun controller is more immediately appealing to some than monochromatic, faintly satirical beat-em-ups. Hopefully Sega’s marketing department will have something worked out and can get behind it in a big way in the weeks leading up to its release.

With precisely a month until the game’s release, I think it’ll be about another week or so before the first reviews start to trickle in - hopefully some high scores are in the offing. Certainly if Platinum’s past record is anything to go by, we’re at least looking at some critical acclaim if not commercial success.

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am by Chris Schilling
A man having his back shredded by a moving train, Forthcoming titles, Hardcore-friendly, Release dates, Wii.