Monster Mayhem: Build and Battle

by Crave Entertainment

Product Features

• Create, raise and train your own personal Monster
• Protect the home town from evil invaders
• Explore multiple environments
• Take your Monster into the Lab for wild customizations
• Change your Monster's attributes through battles, experiments, tonics and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001L8DKLQ
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 15, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,656 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #33 in Video Games > Wii > Action > Fighting
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii

It’s alive...it’s ALIVE! Now you can finally create the monster you've always wanted to. Introducing Monster Mayhem: Build and Battle! A box arrives at your doorstep, with the words "Monsto-Corp" stamped on the side. You know immediately what this means. You will create and train the perfect monster to defend your town, Happy Valley, from creature attacks. In Monster Mayhem you raise, train and care for your own personal monster, in an attempt to create the perfect monster to defend their home town of Happy Valley. This can prove difficult with a monster a little bigger than the average home!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the right age, September 25, 2009

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S. Cover "Iguanian" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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As a big fan of monsters, and remembering an old game where you could build and fight monsters, I bought this game sight unseen. A slight mistake, as I think I am a bit outside of the age demographic for this game now.

You start in the laboratory, and have a fledgling monster to work with that looks a bit like Shrek. From there you can add a variety of different types of spines, spikes, tattoos, ears, etc. Kind of like a Mr. Potato Head, but more interactive.

From there, you send your monster out into the quite large world to explore, gather ingredients, eat gruffins (the bad guys) and of course, fight other monsters.

Gruffins look like rabbits, and they replenish your health if you lose a battle, and also confer some immunity to a type of elemental damage. So eat a red gruffin to get protection from fire attacks, blue for protection from water attacks, etc.

Gathering ingredients is done by smashing all sorts of things apart and collecting what's left. Then you can put them together in the lab to create potions to enhance your monster during combat.

Finally there is the combat. It is a turn based type system, so you can choose what attack you want to use (Punch, pound, or block) and then it compares to the type of attack the opponent uses.

While an okay game, I was expecting a little more action from the combat and exploring. This is why I said it is a great game depending on your age. The monsters are very well animated, and if you enjoy building and accessorizing your beast (kind of like in the Sims) it has a lot of options. There is even an area where you can take the monsters picture and he will do various poses.

Also, the animations for the creatures during the fights are amusing, with both sides doing dance moves, "talk to the hand", and quite a few other things including "mooning" the other monster when they defeat it.
So, if you are looking for a tactical simulation or fast paced RTS game, you won't be happy. If you are looking for something a bit cuter that would appeal to someone a bit younger, then you will probably be quite happy with this game. I don't think it will be a game that makes it into the teen years, but younger than that, and it would be good.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars definitely for kids, October 26, 2009

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B. Kim "koshkas" (California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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OK, for me personally, not too exciting (waaaay too little challenge), but it's not really meant for 30-something moms. It's meant for their elementary and middle school boys (and girls). My preschooler is too young to play but keeps having me play so he can watch the monsters fight. The "fights" are basically a variation of rock-paper-scissors, and the monsters actions look like little kids "fighting". Sometimes, one monster will hurt the other by farting. Other times, belching. I just leveled up to the point where they throw boogers and something from under their armpits. (I DID say elementary boys are the target, remember.) Customizing the monsters is fun, too.

Ingredients to make tonics to help defeat other monsters include wire bundles (from smashing cars in the junkyard), teddy bears (from the fair ground trash cans), globs of oil and water, cat skeletons (trash cans), coin jars, and more. For what I assume is the target market of elementary boys, I think they'll love it.

2.0 out of 5 stars The novelty waers off, September 18, 2010

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Fish girl "Fish girl" (Beaverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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It was cute at first, and for the price, it wasn't a total waste of money. But it gets old fast and quickly becomes a paperweight...

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