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Emergency Mayhem

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Emergency Mayhem
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Game Info

Publisher: Codemasters

Developer: Supersonic Software

Genre(s): Driving, Action

Players: 4

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: April 15, 2008

Summary

Exclusively for Wii, Emergency Mayhem mixes fast and frantic driving action with hilarious arcade mini games. Take charge of the three Emergency Services, you’ll have to battle the traffic and shoot down shortcuts as you race from crazy catastrophe to daft disaster. At each incident, you'll use the Wii Remote in wacky ways to solve unique crises, from disarming bombs to herding escaped penguins! Then it's on to the next emergency - no time to waste! [Codemasters]

What The Critics Said

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58

Gamers' Temple

Emergency Mayhem throws some wacky tasks our way as we race to reduce mayhem but really reducing panic has never felt so repetitive.

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55

Game Informer

The single-player experience can be completed in a few hours, and the painful minigames give you good reason to skip the multiplayer.

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53

ZTGameDomain

However if you are a fan of classic arcade driving games like Sega's aforementioned cabbie title then you may want to check Mayhem out. It can definitely entertain even if only for minutes at a time.

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50

Cheat Code Central

While I like its charm and the gameplay is satisfactory, the game is just far too repetitive and short.

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50

Official Nintendo Magazine UK

If you're after more than ten minutes of distraction, look somewhere else. [May 2008, p.90]

50

IGN

Emergency Mayhem is a me-too Crazy Taxi clone with some added Wii waggle minis. If you can live with that -- and the game's lackluster graphical presentation -- you will find a fast-paced, arcde-style driving game here.

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50

Da Gameboyz

The frantic pace of the Emergency Mayhem serves up a level of enjoyment, but the initial shine and excitement wears off pretty quickly.

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49

NGamer UK

Welcome to Migraine City, population you. [June 2008, p.54]

45

Worth Playing

The overall feeling given by Emergency Mayhem is that of a game that tries entirely too hard to mimic the most successful title in this genre, and fails rather badly on all counts.

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43

Games Master UK

Without the fitting visuals, this would be unbearable. [May 2008, p.84]

36

n-Revolution Magazine UK

It may be one of the best of its breed, but that's like saying smallpox is the best communicable disease. [Issue#22, p.74]

35

Gamer's Hell

All is not lost however, as, parents, the game is a perfect tool to buy for your kids—to threaten them with if they fail to do their chores.

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33

GameShark

The game is extremely easy to finish in a single afternoon. Not that you should play it, mind you. There are far better choices out there than Emergency Mayhem.

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30

Gamervision

There’s just nothing here of any real value. Boring, unresponsive, tedious, repetitive mini-games loosely tied together with boring, unresponsive, tedious, repetitive driving sequences.

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30

Eurogamer

Inevitably, it's the mini-games that really muff things up though.

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30

PALGN

Emergency Mayhem features poor driving and very average mini games - this is a title that is worth avoiding.

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25

Armchair Empire

To work though the course of the game takes a few hours at most on the middle difficulty. That is, if you have even moderate gaming experience. For kids - in other words, not Teens - it takes a little more time and they're much more forgiving of the game's repetitiveness.

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25

1UP

Playing the same boring minigames over and over again in each stage (sometimes five or six times, without deviation), coupled with simple driving tasks and a lack of significant variation between missions make this a joyless grind with little reward.

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25

GameSpot

Emergency Mayhem is an example of how not to make a minigame collection.

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20

Console Gameworld

A terrible Wii-based Crazy Taxi clone.

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10

Thunderbolt

A complete failure of a game.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 0.0 (out of 10) based on 0 User Votes

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