Video Games : Viewtiful Joe

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: Viewtiful Joe

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Capcom
EAN: 0013388260355
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Capcom
Manufacturer: Capcom
Model: 26035
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: August 11, 2004
Sales Rank: 5148
Studio: Capcom

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Viewtiful Joe is a new kind of action game where you'll play an ordinary guy adapting to life with extraordinary powers! Classic side-scrolling gameplay combines with innovative "viewpoint" fighting, for a wild new gmaing experience.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An Under-Rated Title
A fun game for the price I paid. A styllized update to the old beat-'em-ups of the 80's and 90's.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Capcom is responsible for a majority of my favorite games ever.
I have owned Viewtiful Joe ever since it first came out. I had it for Gamecube and still own it for PS2. I will admit the Gamecube version was slightly better concerning the controls. Still this is an excellent game to try out and even after completing it. There is still lots of replay value. VJ is a one player side scrolling game with very low animated violence. I don't believe there is anything here that can be considered obscene for children.

The game begins when the main character Joe is in the theatre with his girlfriend Silvia. She is then snatched into the movie and Joe attempts to rescue her. He's given the powers of the lead hero to save his girl.

This is still an ordinary side scroller with a really good twist. It borrows an element from Max Payne and takes it to a whole new level. Joe's powers allows you to defeat his enemies by using the movies slow motion, fast forward, and close up features to deal some serious damage. The action is over the top and sometimes hilarious. I mean enemies take uppercuts that send them off the screen. You also earn money and in between stages you buy power ups and new skills. Not a single new skill goes to waste. They can all be pulled off in the heat of battle depending on how well you manage your power gauge. Which always refills the moment you're not using your abilites.

The stages are done pretty well and this isn't one of those games where you instantly fall to your death. The bosses are tough and very exciting to fight. There's also a very good soundtrack to go with the battles.

The game is loaded with extras to increase the replay value. Secret characters are unlocked to include harder game settings. The huge plus with this is, you can begin the new game with all of your abilites. So anything you didn't purchase in your first go around, you can now. Plus the game does get harder.

The controls are very responsive and doesn't take much to learn the moves. There is no complicated control scheme for them. Such as 360 degree or half turn motions. The move list is easy to execute.

VJ is one of my favorite side scrollers. I can play this at anytime and I haven't gotten bored of it yet. Anyone who has not played this game yet is missing out.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best Game Nobody Knows Of
The creativity in this game is off of the charts. I was thinking about whether or not this was a 2d or 3d game but now I think it borders on 4-dimensional because you can manipulate time. Heck, let's just call it 5-dimensional with the 5th dimension being creativity! The great thing is that you can find this game in used stores for less than fifteen bucks! Why can't more games be like this? Totally worth buying.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Caveat Emptor
This game is a lot of fun, and if you only have a Playstation 2 (or 3, now), you should definitely buy this game for it. However, this game was designed to run on the more powerful Gamecube hardware, and if you have that system, you should buy it for that instead, and avoid frame-rate hiccups altogether.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Clever puzzles, good fights, nice graphics, amusing plot.
For what is essentially a glorified side-scroller (not that that's a bad thing), it's surprisingly good. The challenges are well balanced (both the fights and the puzzles), the plot is a clever mockery of superhero and sentai movies without becoming too self-conscious, and the interface is novel. You get super powers, see, when you become the hero in this movie world you get sucked into (reminds me of GEX.) Slow-mo, fast-forward speed, and zoom, each of which enable you to fight better. When in slow-mo, you can target your attacks with a lot more accuracy, and even smack bullets (normally invisible 'cos they're so fast) towards another enemy. Speed enables you to rain an incredible flurry of punches and kicks on an opponent, and zoom enables you to pull off stunts that, well, happen in movies after a zoom.

However, each of these also affects the game world in a fun way. If you're on fire, and you fast forward, the rushing air around you blows out the fire. If you do a fast-forward flurry of punches on an object, you eventually become suffused with your own fire (and are immune to its heat.) If you slow-mo during an explosion, it becomes larger and more effective. And so on--each of your clever little 'fighting' abilities has implications that allow you to solve in-game puzzles. The fighting applications are secondary.

And, for those who are there more for the story and puzzles than the fighting, the difficulty-level selection option at the opening is nice.

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