

The controls, as I've said, are really difficult and annoying as many a time a chain was broken simply because Godzilla takes forever to turn or get done with certain movements. A PS2 disc could do an entire state that is highly detailed in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, yet in this game Godzilla is confined to only a portion of the city. The game play as I said just does not offer much considering the console it is on. What ever you play though the game is over in a little more than an hour. If you get so many photos you unlock a level where you battle either Super Mecha Godzilla or Kiryu and if your growth goes beyond 100 meters you fight a monster that may have been surprising had they not shown it in the opening cinematic. There really is not much to other than that as far as story. No matter what you choose though you have to hear this annoying girl say the same things over and over again. Then you have defend where you protect a portion of the city from an onslaught of invaders. There is another form of this where you can invade as another of the monsters in the game. If you choose invade you arrive at Japan's shores as Godzilla and you destroy generators and get bigger and occasionally another monster shows up to fight you. The story to this one depends on what format of game play you chose. The controls are also not very friendly as it often seems you are fighting with the controls and turning Godzilla and the other monsters seems like turning a river barge with a stick, you struggle. Which makes little sense when Mecha Godzilla shows up because they show him launching out of a dock so someone had to send him. The game is not all bad as it features a lot of monsters that Godzilla has faced through the years, but once again, the format of the game really hurts it as Hedorah and others just kind of show up and there is no story to how they arrived or why other than they are attracted to Godzilla. The game as a whole was less a complete game, but more like a bunch of mini games or something. Sort of a level based game, but again not really. It was sort of a fighting game, but not really.

This one promised that to a degree, but did not deliver. I was not a huge fan of the fighting ones released last decade either as I wanted to see Godzilla in a game where you were Godzilla and you roamed a city and fought other monsters defending the city or destroying it and having monsters come to stop you. This game was okay at best, but once again as a huge Godzilla fan I was disappointed by the latest Godzilla video game.
