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Platinum Games reworking MADWORLD controls

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with MadWorld, Platinum Games.

According to Joystiq, Platinum Games is currently working on fine tuning the controls for the upcoming blood-fest MADWORLD.

The announcement came at at Nintendo’s Fall Media Summit, where the Joystiq crew were happy to find MADWORLD running on two kiosks, but were soon disappointed to hear that they would not be able to play the game, just yet.

Instead, Sega reps informed us that the game is currently undergoing some fundamental changes to its control scheme and that, well, they basically didn’t want us to play it in its current state.

This could mean one of two things.  Either Platinum Games is having issues getting the Wii motion controls working correctly (which is not a first for any games company) - which would be a worry.  Or, maybe Platinum Games has decided to change the way the game controls, and the builds running right now won’t reflect any other versions further down development. 

Who knows? In any case, the game still sounds like it is going to be a blast to play.

Someone urged Sega’s testers to show off the most over-the-top move they could think of, so we were treated to a gameplay sequence wherein an enemy was restrained with a tire, skewered through the head with a stopsign post, then cleaved in twain by the main character’s chainsaw.We also got a peek at the chainsaw in action while riding a motorcycle down the side of a building and along a highway at innapropriate speeds. A sequence which, again, made us even more steamed that we couldn’t grab the controls and try it ourselves.

Let’s hope any ‘reworking’ of the controls makes the game play as good as it looks.

[Source: Joystiq]
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