Mortal Kombat: Armageddon for Wii Reviews by Gamers

I placed this game in my Q after watching some in-game footage which also presented how the Wiimote's controls had been implemented (looked promising)....sorry to say, the game does not respond to the Wiimote like depicted within the footage at all. Heck, even during the in-game training it would only respond to moves using the Wiimote about 1/5th of the time resulting in the character just standing there watching the grass grow or performing the entirely wrong move as was intended. To quickly sum it up....horrible implementation of the Wiimote's controls!

On a more positive note, I considered the graphics more than acceptable along with each characters unique abilities and also liked the wide selection of characters that the game provides. After getting fed up with the Wiimote controls I decided to give a GC controller a try which resulted in a much more enjoyable game play experience but will not give the game any credit for this considering it was developed primarily for use with the Wiimote.

I am really at a loss as to what is going through developers minds when they implement such a poor Wiimote control scheme. What game development companies need to understand with regards to the Wii is that you can put all you have into developing a truly amazing game but if the controls are not implemented well then nothing else that they've done to make a particular game so great matters. In my opinion, this game could have been a great game but the developers dropped the ball on the implementation of the Wii's control scheme and that's why I would not recommend this game to anyone.