No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise Review

No More Heroes revolves around Travis Touchdown, a loser who lives in a motel in Santa Destroy. After meeting a girl in a bar, he takes on a job to earn some cash. Using a weapon identical to Star War's lightsaber, he's in pursuit to become No.1 assassin in the UAA (United Assassin Association).

After killing your first target Travis becomes no. 10 and discovers, it's kill or be killed in this profession. From here on out it's more than about money and an obsession to become No.1.
When your not killing ranked assassins, Travis can roam Santa Destroy to gather his entry fee for the next fight. The cities not designed to be sophisticated, as other sandbox worlds but instead  a diversion from combat.

Money can earned by mowing lawn, completing fight challenges, and opening dumpsters with money to name a few. With your budget you can purchase new clothes, upgrade your weapon and train at the gym to inflict more damage.

Scattered around Santa Destroy are collectibles called  lovikov balls, which are easy to find in the most obvious places. Another object to find is dumpsters, with either lots of money or a new t-shirt for Travis. You can ride around the city in a custom motorcycle, which has nitrous installed.

While it's fun to use, you'll want to proceed with the main mission's after encountering some bugs. Whenever you drive into a car, a collision detection problem occurs. It seems the cars have a got a square blocking volume around them, resulting in your motorcycle to jitter to the side.

The pedestrians also have a similar problem, whereby you can drive through them as if there a ghost. Unfortunately you can't slice and dice pedestrians, which is a shame. Weapons are only active in a challenge mini game or in a ranking match.

Combat follows the formula of swinging a couple of light attacks and  executing a gore gushing finisher. You can also perform wrestling moves, such as a suplex or tombstone piledriver.

In the Wii version when Travis gets a call, sound emerges from the Wiimote acting like a phone. PS3 owners lose out on this feature, as the Move controller doesn't have a speaker incorporated. Nonetheless the controls have been well translated from the Wii to the PS3.

The up scaled textures and art direction looks ravishing on PS3. It's a one of a kind experience visually and hands on for PS3 owners. In terms of the narrative the game has a lot of depth surprisingly. Depending on difficulty you may complete the game in one rental. However there is replay value to the game with trophies and a boss mode, where you can battle all the assassins you've defeated.

No More Heroes brings new experiences to gamers, making excellent use of PS3's motion controller. It might have its flaws in places but be sure to familiarize yourself, with motion control gaming at it's best.