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Emergency Mayhem wii Game Reviews
Emergency Mayhem
Critic Score
Metascore: 42 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
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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]

PUBLISHER: Codemasters
DEVELOPER: Supersonic Software
GENRE(S): Driving, Action
PLAYERS: 4
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: April 15, 2008

What The Critics Said

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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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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
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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49
NGamer UK
Welcome to Migraine City, population you. [June 2008, p.54]
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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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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