Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia

by Southpeak

Product Features

• Acquire weapon parts for upgrades by defeating enemies and exploring your environments
• Find abandoned vehicles, outfit them with deadly weapons, and ride in them to overpower foot-bound foes
• Fight your way through 5 unique environments like Suburban Nightmare, High School Hell and The Shopping Maul, each with deranged Boss Monsters
• Interact with the environment and use physics to your advantage - build barricades, throw large objects and more
• Killer graphics with advanced shading and rendering, with dynamically lit & shadowed worlds

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NJH6Y6
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches ; 7.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 12, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,149 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Get ready for monster madness!Product InformationFour friends get together for a party while the parents are away but somebodyor something is about to crash the party. In four-player melee action you willfight off the monster invasion in this top-down action/shooting game. Customizeand build your own weapons by grabbing parts from the house and town to createmore powerful attack tools and find rare parts to build some ultimate weapons.Jack abandoned vehicles and deck them out with weapons to ride through theterrain and take out creatures. Visit five locations including the suburbantown the high school and the "Shopping Maul."Slash shoot and drive through a horde of invading monsters as you battle tosave suburbia!  The ultimate 16 player online or 4 layer co-op tag teammonster bashing party!Product Features Over 70 unique monster enemies Over 20 gigantic levels with intense boss fights Devious physical traps Drive pilot and sail a fleet of unique monster-mashing vehicles Defend your turf in chaotic 16 player online battlefields Up to 4 players can team up on one system or take the battle online together Highly interactive and destructible environments Unreal Editor included!  Build custom levels and create your own mods Lush Unreal Engine 3 powered graphics and Ageia Physics Mouse and keyboard or gamepad control schemes supports Xbox 360 Controller for WindowsMinimum Requirements Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista (64-bit version of Vista is NOT supported) Intel Pentium 4 - 1.5 GHz or Equivalent Processor 512 MB of RAM (Windows XP) or 1GB of RAM (Windows Vista) 128 MB Direct3D Compatible Video Card (Note: NVIDIA GeForce FX cards are not supported) DirectX 9.0c (Included in DVD) 8X or Faster DVD-ROM Drive 800 MB of free Hard Drive Space Keyboard and Mouse Broadband Internet Connection for Online Play Recommended Requirements Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista (64-bit versio

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars .... Yikes, July 7, 2007

By 

Shanghaied (Carrollton, TX United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia (Video Game)

I picked this up due to the cosmetic (and somewhat implied) similarities to the SNES classic, Zombies Ate My Neighbors. There are similarities, like plot (which is your cut and paste, cartoony zombie attacks the city type of story), and that's sufficient for a games like these.

I'll go over the good first:

The menus and graphics are very well done. The game has a caroony manga sort of style, which isn't terrible. Bright colors and misproportioned details reign. It's a decent enough look that, again, ties into its "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" predecessor.

The gameplay is very fast paced. Your character moves like an olympic track star. This helps, since there are usually dozens of enemies on the screen at any given time.

The game gives a nod to oldschool non-FPS run and gun style gameplay, a genre that, while abused by horrible software producers during the PS-2/X-Box era, shouldn't have fallen into obscurity and needs proper titles to revive it.

As mentioned, the plot is your standard, lukewarm "Zombies are attacking the city" story. The comic style cutscenes are kinda swank, and if you get tired of watching them, the esc key speeds you into the battle.

Now for the bad:

This game simply isn't optimized for the PC. Framerate suffers tremendously even at moderate resolutions, and as more happens on screen this problem is further accented. I am running this game with a Geforce 8800 GTS, 2 gigs of RAM, and a 2.2x2 Athlon64 and I'm experiencing considerable slow down at 1200x960 on medium(I think that's the res I'm using) and I'm sorry, the visuals aren't pretty enough to not run smoothly at that res. This appears to be another example of Micro$oft porting 360 titles horribly to the PC; my advice if you have your heart set on trying this is to find a demo and wait for patches.

Though the controls add a frantic appeal and overall are good, they are simply too fast and end up making the game feel sloppy. Instead of moving like a teenager, your character jumps around the screen like the Flash on speed. I think the fast controls actually damage the gameplay as they make it too easy for the player to get out of bad situations. Slowing the characters down might have made the controls feel more solid and added some challenge.

The weapons, by and large, are stupid. Shotguns made out of plumbing pipe, even if you're going for the "I'm desperate to use anything I can find as a weapon," just aren't appealing.

Character design is pretty horrible. You can play a hippy, a cheerleader, a goth chick, or a computer nerd. I understand this is an attempt at levity, but the models aren't designed well and if they were going for a goofy look, it's too overdone.

I have not messed around with the multiplayer function yet, but you cannot play the story mode with other players online. This would be awkward since you can choose the level you want to play singularly, therefore the game does not flow. If you have your PC hooked up to a television and are willing to buy controlers, you can play with friends on the same system. Failing to use the internet for Co-op play really is a dealbreaker for this game.

In closing, I'm not terribly happy with this purchase. Admittedly, I've only played through the first 5 or so levels, but I refuse to soldier on through this game until it is optimized for the PC. Even on a more robust system it is a choppy, mediocre mess. My advice to anyone considering this purchase for the PC; download "Shadowgrounds" from steam for less than half the price of this; it's very similar in design and is a much more traditional run-and-gun game.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Unreal Editor, July 24, 2007

By 

DisapointedReader "A. Prolific Reader" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia (Video Game)

Since this game looked like a bad Xbox 360 port (and it was) I bought it totally for the new Unreal Editor which was prominantly advertised on the box as being included. If it was not as far as I could tell. Customer service never returned my E-mail asking about it.

If you are looking for a sneak peak at the new Unreal editor, buy "Roboblitz", not this sorry XBox port.

2.0 out of 5 stars really wanted to like it, December 4, 2011

By 

Fermin - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia (Video Game)

I really wanted to like this game. It seemed like it would be really fun and it could have been fun, but it has to many flaws and they're making me not want to play it anymore. As others have mentioned it suffers from low frame rates at times even with the quality turned down. My computer isn't great(athlon le-1640 2.7ghz, 2gb ram, 8400gs 512mb), but it should be able to play it on low-medium without having the frame rate go down. That by itself I would have been able to tolerate, but it has more problems. At first I had fun collecting parts in order to build and then upgrade the weapons, but after awhile I got bored collecting parts I really didn't need. I ended up getting the max amount of the average parts. It was hard finding the parts that I really needed and when I did find some I ended up not being able to get them, as a lot of them were on top of things and my character wasn't able to jump high enough to ever reach them. The game has almost no story, that may not bother some people, but I like having a story that makes me want to keep playing even if just to find out what happens. It would be great if it had one, because I'm only about 4-5 levels from the end and I really don't want to put the time and effort into finishing it.