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Mercury Meltdown Revolution Review

Smooth! This game is pretty fun... if you can find it right now!!! I've never had this much trouble finding a simple game like this. It was supposed to come out last month, then this month in a bunch of places, and still won't come out in other stores until apparently next month... weird. Anyway, you're basically controlling a blob of mercury in numerous types of puzzles trying to make it to each one's finish line. Trick is, there are so many obstacles, color combinations of the mercury needed for different tasks, and all sorts of other gadgets and stage variations that you need to complete these puzzles, it's hard not to get hooked. Its very fun and extremely addicting. Hours just start to kinda fly by when you're playing it and the puzzles can get pretty hard. The mercury has just the right amount of physics applied to it so that it looks and feels pretty real. The contrast of this with the cartoony environments and wide variety of music tracks (everything from techno to jazz) makes for a great experience. I really enjoy playing this game. Well, good luck finding it at this point in time, and if anyone reading this does find a copy I suggest you totally get it, because for 20 dollars, you can't go wrong. SWEET!

The players aim in thi sgame is to get from 1 end of a maze to another, which is surprisingly fun. There are around 126 (16 stages in each lab and 8 labs) mazes in total each getting slightly harder. Thee are also 5 mildly entertaining mini games. This game can be pretty fun but does get very repetative so i would recommend playing it in smal doses i.e for 10 min when you are frustrated with resident evil 4 or zelda. The controls on this game are pretty simple which makes the game easy to pick up and play. All you have to do is hold the wiimote on its side and tilt it in the desired direction. The wiimote directly controls the stage with teh tilts not the ball of mercury. The game is pretty simple but can get frustrating in parts i.e . when you cant lose any mercury at all on an especially trick map. The game looks ok for a wii game but there are no stunning visuals, i did enjoy the bright colours though and i feel that may appeal to children who want to play this game.

All in all this is a solid wii port of a playstation 2 game, visuals are ok and the control mapping is very intuative and fun to use. I would recommend renting though as i do not think it is worth its full retail price. If you see it on offer though get it because you will have allot of fun with this.