Death, Jr. 2 takes root on Wii

Posted Feb 13th 2008 4:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Screens

The annoyingly punctuated Death, Jr. 2: Root of Evil will be making the leap from PSP to Wii this spring, complete with ~~a bunch of stuff that should come as standard in the Wii version of a PSP-to-Wii port~~ more polygons, higher-resolution textures, more voice acting, better pacing, splitscreen play for co-op, and an improved user interface. The game's score on Metacritic doesn't exactly leave us bursting with hope, but hey, we wrapped up Super Mario Galaxy a while ago, and could do with another platformer to sink our teeth into.

Speaking of Galaxy, here's Death, Jr. 2 producer James Stanley talking up the game to 1UP: "It's definitely one of the better looking Wii titles. I'd say 'best' but we might get in a battle with some Mario fans." Check out more screens past the break and tell us if you agree with him.

Tags: adventure, backbone-entertainment, Death-Jr-2, eidos, platform, port, Root-of-Evil

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-13-2008 @ 4:16PM

BlackDogAssault said...

..Doesn't seem that nice looking to me, if you ask.

2-13-2008 @ 4:34PM

Perverted said...

I think you forgot the sarcasm tags.....

2-13-2008 @ 4:41PM

twitchboy said...

It looks like a port of a crappy psp game to me... awesome graphics wouldn't make me buy it...

2-13-2008 @ 4:49PM

Jhongerkong said...

2-13-2008 @ 5:00PM

Orion said...

does the man not own a wii? these are poor ps2 quality graphics at best... looks like Jack and Dexter type graphics honestly. heck, id go on a limb and say Excite Truck looked better than this.

2-13-2008 @ 5:32PM

ArmorForVictor said...

i bought the first death jr. for my psp and it was suppose to be one of the great psp exclusives and it sucked.

2-13-2008 @ 8:30PM

Avoli said...

That might be on par with Psychonauts. Sure won't be holding my breathe on graphics, but I'd be more for gameplay anyways.

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