To call this game "retro", is to insult those of us who played those real retro games in the 80s and 90s.
User Rating: 5.1 | Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia X360
Monster Madness is a game that wants so badly to be Zombie Ate My Neighbors. The problem is that ZAMN is a revered and loved classic that didn't rely on anything but it's charm. MM on the other hand, has taken a simple concept and missed the mark. The problem isn't in the save system or the list of enemies or the "bad acting" of the VO, it's that the game just isn't that fun. Hammering on the triggers over and over while a highly questionable camera rotates without your input just doesn't make for a fun game. The art style of MM is good, the fact that it's chock full of zombies is a plus, even the characters themselves had some small charm, but when all it said and done this game is just a pile of missed oppotunity with a side of wasted potential. The saddest thing of all is that an adjustable control scheme alone would have made this one a lot better. That one simple tiny thing could have added a point or two to this games score. Clicking the sticks for jumping commands is a horrible idea but if they had just let the player adjust the controls as they saw fit, a lot of the complaints would have ended right there.
