“Rising Star Games is very excited to be bringing this latest project from Suda 51 to the European market,” commented Martin Defries, Managing Director, Rising Star Games. “He is without doubt a legendary creative powerhouse within the gaming industry. No More Heroes is shaping up to be a widely anticipated Q1 title for both the trade and consumers alike. It’s a massively engaging and immersive gaming experience for the Wii. This is exactly the right product to broaden the format’s appeal to a wider, more serious gaming audience.”

Key Features

• Innovative controls – recharge your weapon by shaking the Wii Remote!
• Travis’s fighting action is uniquely controlled via Wii Remote and the Nunchuk
• Customise Travis’s style with over 170 items of clothing to choose from
• Play at your own pace with a free roaming environment – chill out at home, head out on assassination missions or hunt down otaku goodies
• Laugh-out-loud comedy, story line and wacky characters!

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 fibre - and enough swearing to get your telly banned by the BBFC. Killer7 creator Suda51 is back, all right.

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Travis Touchdown, is a cool dude, who loves gaming & anime, who wins a lightsaber in an online auction and sets off in a mission to become the world’s number one hitman so he can get the girls. From the minute you take control of him, thrown into the deepend, a short cutscene tells you story so far and pressing the A button takes you straight to the house of Hitman Number10.

A very quick tutorial shows you your fighting moves and then you make it up as you go along. The ranked assassins guard themselves with loads of ball - axe - knife holding freaks who at their best will just slow you down a bit, they are laser katana practice before the real master assassins face you in battle I must say all of the assassins i have encountered so far have been fantastic, Completely bonkers and full of blood lust.

When you need to save, head for the big S, and that will take you straight to “the bathroom” yeah you heard… the bathroom, Travis takes a dump to save … how funny is that? ; when his charge is low in the katana (press 1) and he holds the katana at waist height and yanks on it until the batteries recharge.  Some of the other rankedAssassins to kill are Death Metal; Letz Shake; Destroy Man, they get more and more bizarre as you go along and all have different fighting styles / tools.

Its not all about fighting though, Travis has to earn money to enter the prize fights, and to do so he has to take on part time jobs to fund the entrance fee, you can get these at the local job center or various other places, the first major job you do is collecting coconuts, hmm thats easy I hear ya say…  think again batman.. you have to kick and punch the hell outta coconut trees and then carry the buggers back to a coconut seller hehehe it aint no easy task. There is a love interest in all this Sylvia Christal - The very sexy agent from the UAA. A mysterious beauty who arranges the ranking battles of the UAA. Frequently mixes business with pleasure she keeps popping up (and out) quite often which drives Travis insane with lust….

Travis gets around on the biggest bike I have ever seen… it tops 120 on on the GTA style roads when you hit the jet thruster, but be carefull you will come a cropper if your not careful on yer chopper… your able to roam around the city just like in GTA and there is loads to go play with :).

 You will come across various flashing chests that harbor health and battery power, plus what looks like a pirates treasure chest thats filled with money, smash these with your katana to empty out the gaming goodness.
If you want to style Travis up a little, there is a shop that opens up called Area 51, the owner is a bit of a dick but the clothes are wicked… choose all new styles for Travis making him keep his cool…. jackets,  jeans, t’s and sunnies all available at the right price…

The gameplay is superb, fights are repetitive but you just love em and cant stop, pressing B on the wiimote gives you wrestling moves and A charges up the katana for more powerful moves. You learn more moves as you get through the game and they get more and more bizarre. There are some special moves you can pull off, these happen when you doing a Jamie Oliver on the closest of enemies which slice and dice faster than he ever could. The power of the special move is determined by the roll of the slot machine, you will see this in the game.

When an assassin is defeated you are presented with your score board which is fantastically reproduced retro 80’s coin-op scoreboard which fits the game beautifully.
The music score behind the game is very well presented and really gets you into the game, I found myself dancing around whilst slicing and dicing to some nice drum and bass.

My closing statement on this game is:

Travis Touchdown is the man we all want to be, he’s a rock hard geezer with a laser katana, he dont take crap from anyone plus he loves the ladies, who doesnt want to be like that? This is one game on the Nintendo Wii that you should buy, not only for yourself but for your Wii, it breathes a breath of fresh air and fun into your everyday life, letting you live out your bloodlust as a cool hitman who loves the chicks and aint afraid of a bit of blood spatter. Music is cool, no idea why they changed the blood from red to black for the european market and still kept in the swearing go figure… but this does NOT detract from the wonderfully styled graphics easy to use controls and exciting gameplay.

GO BUY THIS NOW!

Gameplay - 9/10 - Easy to play, controls feel natural, hack n slash loveliness
Graphics - 8/10 - Not next-gen, but they are stylish and totally suit the game
Controls - 9/10 - Wii-Mote and nunchuck are very well suited for this game
Sound - 8/10 - Great voices, fantastic music atmosphere is brilliant
Overall - 9/10 - I loved this game and so will you, its what you have been crying out for, Its fun, ridiculous and hilarious - a must for any adult Wii owner.

This game gets a stonking pimpmywii.co.uk 9/10