This is hardly a massive innovation on the Wii, after all Sega’s Monkey Ball and Hudson’s Kororinpa both showcase similar ‘tilting’ control methods, but Mercury Meltdown Revolution proves to be a more effective and innovative use of the system and easily eclipses the aforementioned titles by some margin - no mean feat when you consider the excellent standard of both games.

In a strange twist of fate, the series has now come full circle and the developers have been granted the opportunity to include what was denied in the original PSP release – true motion-sensing control. This follow-up improved on the original in practically every way and gained plaudits from all corners of the video gaming press.įast forward a few months and Ignition Banbury have taken the decision to release Mercury Meltdown on the Wii, cheekily adding ‘Revolution’ to the end of the name in a possible reference to the pre-release codename of Nintendo’s console. Thankfully the core concept was strong enough to succeed regardless and it quite rightly went on to become one of the more critically acclaimed launch titles.Ī sequel was almost inevitable, although the project had to overcome the departure of legendary developer Archer Maclean – an unfortunate event that would have spelt doom to many other games, but ironically seemed to spur the UK-based studio Ignition Banbury onto bigger and better things. Designed to take advantage of the proposed motion-senses capability of the PSP, the original Mercury was hastily re-tooled when it became clear that the console would not come with such a feature. There are obviously notable exceptions to this - the stunningly addictive Mercury being one such example. Even the most stubbornly loyal Sony fanboy would admit, albeit begrudgingly, that the PSP has a less then stellar reputation for quality software.

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