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Mercury Meltdown: Revolution |  | From: Ignition Entertainment Ltd
List Price: $14.99
Buy Used: $3.94
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 4771
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 400030
UPC: 893384000304
EAN: 0893384000304
ASIN: B000NKRJAG
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Full interaction using the Wii Remote tilt sensor. Support for the Wii Classic and Nintendo GameCube controllers. | | • | Advanced rendering techniques for improved graphical quality | | • | 480p and 16x9 widescreen support | | • | Over 150+ challenging levels. Hidden Labs and Bonus Features to unlock. | | • | State-of-the art blob physics |
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Product Description
Ignition's gooey puzzler flows onto Wii with gameplay redesigned for the Wii remote (utilizing its enhanced tilt functionality) as well as enhanced graphics. In Mercury Meltdown Revolution players guide a mercury blob around futuristic environments complete with moving machinery test tubes trap switches spikes rotating walkways dangerous ledges and other obstacles in order to reach an end-level goal. The Wii build of the title is set to feature more than 150 levels hidden labs updated blog physics and a variety of bonuses. Format: WII Genre: SPORTS/GAMES/GAMES AND PUZZLES Rating: RP UPC: 893384000304 Manufacturer No: 400030
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 50
 great game October 30, 2007
dlc (WA United States)
161 out of 167 found this review helpful
What a great WII game. We've played Zelda and a few others, and while Mercury Meltdown may not cost $50 and may not be a big, Hollywood-style release, it is a wonderfully addictive, puzzling game. It is keeping this 47 year old and his 12 year old daughter up late on school nights.
All WII games should be this good. Can't tell you how disappointing it is to pay $50 for a game and get it home to find it's totally lame. This game is a reasonable $20 and is oodles of fun.
Kororinpa on the cheap November 2, 2007
Luke Meyers (Seattle, WA USA)
77 out of 80 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed the game Kororinpa: Marble Mania which came out some months before this one, and the action in this game is pretty similar. However, it feels different enough that it's definitely not just a level pack for that game. The blob physics add a new dimension, as does the focus on solving puzzles by changing your blob different colors, mixing different color blobs to make secondary colors, etc. It's neat stuff. For 20 bucks this game is an absolute steal, and it's got a lot of levels and stuff to unlock. Each level has various ways to excel and try to get a top score -- beating par time, collecting all bonuses, and losing as little mercury as possible.
On the downside, so far the "party games" don't seem to me to be truly multiplayer. But I've only unlocked one; I don't know if later ones involve multiple players. Also, the tilting motions used to steer your blob around are much more constrained than in Kororinpa -- no flipping the world upside down! Oh, well. Still a great game and an absolute bargain.
Fun little game, a little difficult for children--4 1/2 stars January 7, 2008
Melissa (Texas)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
In Mercury Meltdown you have to navigate your blob of mercury through a maze, around obstacles like pushers, gravity blenders, spinners, and switches, to the finish line. While making sure your blob is the right color to pass through doors and the same color as the finish line, you have to avoid schizoids, mercoids, spectroids, and jerkoids. They'll eat your blobs of mercury. If you loose too much mercury you fail the mission.
We bought this game for our 9 year old son, who loves puzzles. According to him, he likes it because of the challenging levels he has to navigate. He also finds the party games, that are unlocked when you collect a certain number of bonuses, fun. The feature that lets you save or replay certain levels has been a fun source of entertainment as well. He does think the game can be frustrating at time because of some of the obstacles.
I have not played the game, but have watched him play it quite a bit. It's actually very fun to watch and has kept me on the edge of my seat watching him make tight turns. However, I do have one `warning' if you're buying it for children. According to Toy's R Us' website, the manufacture's recommended age is 6 (they recommend 8). Our 6 year old can not play this game. It requires too much concentration and patience. Our 9 year old struggles with patience and the fine motor skills needed to complete most levels. I highly doubt many 6 year olds can play it without a great deal of frustration. My son gets frustrated with it very easily. With enough encouragement he'll complete the most advance levels, but we have had a couple of occasions where we've asked him walk away because of his frustration. We found a couple of walk throughs online that have helped him through a couple of levels but for the most part it's pretty easy to figure out what needs to be done to complete a level.
Over all we've been very happy with this game and would buy it again. At 20.00 it's definitely worth the money.
**Note our son contributed most of the content, including background information and his personal opinions on the game.
Mom's point of view December 20, 2008
My Old KY Home (Texas)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I hate writing a review without playing the game but I have an observation... two very different gamers like this game. One of my boys (12 yrs) likes racing and sports games while the other (10 yrs) the Lego series, Mario and the like. I have found both boys playing Mercury Meltdown. They said it took a bit to get used to it but once they did they really like it. Neither boy would have picked this game out on their own but I encouraged them to based on reviews...they are glad they did because it was a good bang for their buck.
Excellent game at a shovelware price January 28, 2008
Poster_X
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you enjoy maddeningly difficult puzzle games, Mercury Meltdown is a steal at the shovelware price of $[...]. As others have said, the graphics are not super detailed, but the controls are dead-on and there are over 100 levels, as well as a number of unlockable extras.
Keep in mind that although you _can_ play with more than 1 player (after unlocking some minigames), the single player game is really where the bulk of the game play is.
Please buy this game to reward good publishers selling great games at reasonable prices!
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