Slick and stylish with consistantly exciting action wrapped in unique concepts.
The Look: The look of the game is slick and stylish. I've never seen a character model as realistic as our hero Kurt before. The landscapes were flowing, organic, and edgy, with big rooms inside, and a nice sense of space outside. The Game play: Super fun. At the start of each level you're hurtling towards Earth, having to avoid gun fire and missiles coming up at you, (giving me a sense of Deja Vu when playing R&C:Up Your Arsenal). Once you hit the ground though, it's a 3rd person shooter with exciting run and gun action. The controls are tight and easy to manage. The enemies tease you, making it even more fun to take them out. The game also allows you to shoot enemies up piece by piece; Take out a leg or an arm before they die, which is something I had never seen before. Also new to me was the ability to blow off an enemies head when you switch to sniper mode, which MDK allows you to do on the fly. Of course, you don't have to spend all your time running; You're also equipped with a reusable "Ribbon Parachute" allowing you to glide from high platforms at any time. At the end of each section is a big boss, each with a unique way of taking them out. Although you're doing a lot of shooting, the only thing that may hold some people back is that you're never really in the middle of a swarm of enemies. For the most part, the numbers that you deal with at one time is fairly mild.
The Weapons: Although not in abundance, that ones you have are very fun. You're standard weapon is the Chain Gun which can get the job done. Power ups include the super chain gun, grenades, tornado's, decoys (hmmm, also remnant in R&C), and the occasional "World's Smallest Nuclear Explosion" and even less available "World's Most Interesting Bomb". To add to the roster of firepower you get various Sniper Weapons as well. The sniper mode (which you switch to by attaching your gun to your face - makes more sense when you play the game) also includes a gun cam in the corner so you can watch where you're bullets and bombs are going. The Music: Fantastic. Just as stylish as the rest of the game, with great ambiance and a killer soundtrack.
To sum up, MDK is fun, fast, exciting, and even a little funny. A definite play for any action fan.