I absolutely loved this game when I was a teenager. Me and my mates would play the multiplayer for hours and just go around destroying all the buildings before actually fighting. Such an underrated game, shame more people didn't know about it at the time.
I had a PS2 demo disk with this on it. I remember Id have my friends over and we'd play the same level, same 2 monsters over and over and over again. Take turns beating the shit out of each other, destroying the city etc etc.. good times
One of the BEST games ever for the ps2, I played it for hours with my friend back in 2003. I actually still have it to this day (and my old fat ps2). When its a nasty day out or I have the day off I'll turn it on and play for a bit until I get to the canyon level and become irritated lol
I only ever played the demo of this I had a huge stack of demo disc's it's pretty much the only thing I played I didn't have many full games😂watching this takes me back❤
This game reminds me of the PS3 game Eat Them!, on which I did a week's QA work experience back in highschool - my first taste of the videogames industry
Oh my god I remember playing this game on the PS3 when I was little! Me, my brother, and my dad were kicking each other’s butts back in the day in this game! 😂😂😂😂
It's a shame Rampage gets all the credit and glory when this game improved on basically everything that series ever did. It's been long outstanding for a remake or a sequel now that we have the forethought and technology to make it even better.
What a throwback! literally haven't heard anyone talk about this since I was a kid. I can't remember if I had this game or if me and my brother played the heck out of a demo but it was so much fun!
Miss this game and my friend who owned a PS2 back then, we used to play all the time. Sadly he already passed away so this game holds a special place in my heart
Incognito Inc. was full of technical wizards in general. Their next game after this was Downhill Domination which was basically SSX on mountain bikes with a little bit of Road Rash thrown in. It had lush environments with massive draw distances, foliage, & weather effects all running at a brisk 60fps, it's a bit of a gem. Even in 4-player splitscreen it still mostly maintains 60fps which is insane, even if they do have to lower the draw distance to accomplish it.
For a brief time period there Incognito Inc was my favorite developer. All of their titles were super underrated and it was disappointing as hell to see then fade into obscurity.
@@JackDoesVoicesPoorly I want the graphics to look like 60's special effects. Rubber monsters, miniature cars and tanks, cardboard buildings, blue screened people running away
@@sameoldsameold9239yeah I got that game it was amazing have you heard the news recently they're going to include characters from the Ultraman series that DLC will be available in November
One of my fondest memories of this game was picking up Twisted Metal Black so I could unlock the secret Sweet Tooth character by having a save of the game on your memory card. Sure, Twisted metal Black mortified me as a kid, but the memories made it worth it!
This game wasn't just a love letter to its genres, it was a love letter to me. 50s B movies? Giant monsters? Giant robots? It was everything I gravitated towards as a teenager. You could play as a dracolich for christ sake. Its always going to have a special place in my heart. I wish I'd ever met anyone in real life who liked it as much as I did.
When I was a kid, this was the holy grail of rentals. Only a single Home Video store, a town over would ever have it. It was also rented nearly every time we went too. Only ever got it twice but we'd play that game so much over that week.
I remember how hard this game was to buy/rent too. My local Blockbuster would sell the videos games you could rent for fairly cheap without the case. That’s the only way I was able to purchase a copy at the time.
It is an absolute travesty that this game has not received a current gen remake or even a sequel of some sort. It was one of my favorite games from my childhood that deserves so much more recognition than it gets.
Yep it’s so weird we haven’t gotten more. you could keep the gist of the gameplay but add way more unlockables, like lots of cosmetics, maybe move sets/perks/mutations, game modes, bigger levels, different mission types and a create a monster mode. That would be chefs kiss.
An issue a lot of Kaiju games run into (and that War of the Monsters thankfully handles well) is not having a sense of scale that befits their premise: The Pipeworks Godzilla games, Gigabash, etc often feel like you're just fighting as a normal or slightly large creature in a miniature toybox set. One would THINK that War of the Monsters making it's monsters only being like 30-50 feet tall and having to climb up rather then tower over buildings might make that issue worse, but instead it (and the less overhead, more behind the shoulder camera it permits) largely solves it: You're often so close to, getting knocked into, or leaping over or climbing onto buildings that it's impossible to NOT feel like you're innteracting with buildings and rampaging across whole cities. It's not ideal, perhaps, since you don't quite get the power fantasy of just pushing over skyscrapers and stepping on office buildings, but the playable Monsters being more King Kong and less Godzilla sized means that, even if you were to strip away all the textures and other visual details and just have grey blocks without the context of how big things are, the size of your playable character compared to the stuff you walk past and jump on at least would feel like a jungle gym: You're still interacting with things that feel big relative to the player, but not so big that they become obstacles, which strikes a good balance between a normal game where you play as a person and buildings define your playspace/pathing, or on the other extreme being so big and you dwarf buildings so much that they feel like toys rather then a full scale urban space, and it takes clever camerawork and other things to sell the sense of scale correctly. Anyways, I also just think the game is a joy to play: it's not deep, but climbing up buildings and throwing radio towers around like spears is just fun, and there's a awesome sense of weight and energy when you knock enemies around and they go flying into a skyscraper and the entire facade of the building crumbles. Even if the destruction isn't particular granular or dynamic relative to say the Battlefield Bad Company games, it's enough to make the battles feel fun, especially with the secret natural disasters you an activate.I think the Monsters, despite effectively being reskins in gameplay terms just with different super moves, also still manage to feel distinct through their animations, and the unlockable costumes are great, too. I think it's a real shame this never got a sequel: As is I think it's the best Kaiju game ever made (though I haven't played the PS4 godzilla game, which seems awesome as a sort of Godzilla sim: it looks like it NAILS the tone of the Toho films and seems like it does the sense of scale better then the plpeworks titles) and with more fleshed out destruction and combat and higher fidelity, that alone I feel like could make it a legitmately amazing game. You criticize the story mode and lack of content but honestly I feel like the unlocks offer a lot already, and while the story mode is short, it's challenging enough and has enough unique encounters that it's pretty fun.
My cousin and I used to rent this game all the time until we each bought copies of it. Honestly very fun and it solidified my early childhood love of B movies and science fiction. Destroy All Humans took it much further. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if we saw War of the Monsters remastered or just upscaled to capitalize on the old memories.
Me and my brothers played the crap out of this, so many memories! One of the best fighter, and ps2, games ever. One of the rare games that is just so full of love, you can feel the passion of the devs in every aspect of the game.
Such a damn guud game! Destructible environments always have a soft spot in my heart and I miss them days. And it was really impressive for its time. I highly recommend checking out Incogs other two games like Kinetica and Downhill Domination. Very underrated games.
Holy hell! Kinetica is the game I've been looking for literally since I was a child, but could never remember the name of or find any information on! Thank you SO much, dude!! :'D
I had an Xbox but I remember being super jealous watching Electric Playground covering this game. As someone who loved kaiju movies as a kid I really wanted to play it.
What a game! I still own this and was one of the first games I had in mind for my emulation library I've been building on my PC. I can't believe it's never had a reboot look in
For some reason your community post made me think you were covering Urban Yeti. As one of my favorite games as a kid, War of the Monsters was an awesome surprise!
Nice to finally see past the second boss. Only got there once, not for difficulty but just getting tired of the exhausting fights taking so long. Love the video mate!
One of my absolute favorite games as a child! ^-^ Everytime I'd have friends over, we'd spend hours and hours just getting into shenanigans in this game and we never got bored of it! :D
Such a fantastic game. We need a remake! Wish we got more games like this. Nowadays it seems only Nintendo is keeping up with creative and fun games that are not shooters or unfinished open world
I absolutely love this game. It had/has such an atmosphere to it. Something that kinda put you on edge and made you feel slightly uneasy almost as if the monsters were real. I wish there was a sequel.
Fun fact: There's an underrated BMX racing game called Downhill Domination, and if you play that with a War of the Monsters save on your memory card then the electric cyclops becomes available as a secret racer
I don’t think it’s particularly fair or accurate to say War of the monsters “hasn’t aged particularly well” for the flaws you mentioned. Even as a kid who played the game, I had those same issues and did feel kinda empty in content in comparison to other fighters. It isn’t hard to see why it didn’t become a super hit for sony because of that, but at the same time I don’t think there’s many games that captured the spirit of old sci fi and monster movies and still be a well made game as well as War of the monsters. The only other exceptions I can think of are destroy all humans and maybe stubbs the zombie, king of the monsters and Earth Defense force, but those later 2 are in their own category altogether. It’s a shame War of the monsters never got a followup that built upon it’s foundation, cause it did have potential to be improved and expanded on instead of incognito doing another twisted metal afterwards.
This game is in my top 3 favorite PS2 games of all time. My fondest memories are when I was in middle school and visit my mother for the summer, playing with my friend. We lived in the same apartment complex, with him being right below me, and I'd spend hours at his place playing this game, Robotech: Battlecry, and Zone of the Enders. My top picks were usually Togera, Ultra V, and Raptros, whereas he'd prefer Raptros, Preytor, and Congar, and we'd either play against the CPU, or when it's just us we'd just DEMOLISH the city for funsies. Hell, this one time, another of his friends come over with(I think) Dragon Ball Z: Budokai(forgot which one), and we'd game on it for a bit, then he caught sight of the games I got, and he'd never seen War of the Monsters before. We booted that up on the PS2 and Budokai was almost forgotten about for roughly an hour and a half, as this guy was enraptured by the large-scale environments and just how destructible everything was.
AMAZING video, this game does not get enough love. I remember (as everyone else😊) countless hours with friends and siblings. Hell, even my Grandpa liked this game, he'd always be Conga "Nobody beats King Kong!!"
i'm so glad that series like earth defense force exist to carry on the spirit of the early 2000s "watch giant monsters level an entire city block built entirely out of cardboard boxes" third person action game subgenre
I still play this game, along with a few other old PS2 games... back in the early Oughts's gaming was perfect. We are not in accord on how this game has aged. I find it's simplicity to be delightful. Complexity was tossed out in favor of button mashing mayhem & an on/off button for volcanic eruptions. This game really needs a super-fun update, with new monsters, cities to destroy, 4 player mode, & so on...
There was a youth outing a went to as a child and was pretty scared because I didn’t know anyone. I then found a little office room with a PS2 in it, and had this game. I ended up playing this all night. Have never owned it or a PS2, but every time I see it I think of that time. Cool game.
This game was the shit, I couldn't get enough of it as a kid. My friends would come over and we'd play for hours. Would love a spiritual successor to this, imagine how well you could pull this concept off with the power of a modern console
Dude I hope we get a War of the Monsters 2 or at least a remaster for the PS6 or even in 2025, i was playing this a lot earlier in 2023 hope there’s a sequel
This a game I feel would definitely be an awesome remaster and they could add new monsters and add improvements. It would be so cool. I grew up playing this game for hours on end as a kid beating the story with all the characters to unlock the skins and by the two secret characters! It was an awesome game that was definitely underrated
Those piercing objects aren't OP you can catch them out of the air by spamming the item pick up button and throw them back. Of course you have t see it coming first.
What memories… I remember my dad had a PS2 demo disk (I think it was Jampack: Summer 2003) that was showing all of the upcoming releases and this was one of them. You only had the ape and the electric monster. It wasn’t until 2006 that I got this game, Downhill Domination, and Amplitude for my birthday. Man, what a blast! I remember doing lots of wacky stuff in this game, like timing the grab button to catch weapons being thrown at you, or using the offensive special attack from the electric monster on a downed enemy. For some reason it would make the enemy fly extremely high in the air! But nothing will ever top throwing enemies from buildings and just general chaos
Never has a game been more deserving of a remaster. I remember renting War of the Monsters from Blockbuster as a kid and being completely enamoured with it. It was everything I wanted in a game as a child and to this day is still criminally overlooked.
I just stumbled upon this in the PlayStation store and got mega nostalgia. I bought It immediately. I played this game so much, played with each monster Multiple times. Good times.
Played the PS4 port of this recently. I enjoyed my time with it, but I really needed some sort of storyline. I didn’t have the motivation to play the same campaign over again.
I regret never owning the game. But I cherish the fact that me and my brother always played the demo on the official demo disc. One Level. Just a handful of monsters to choose from. But we had the fun of our lives.
Played loads of this game, as it was my first PS2 game. I could play with just about anyone because the retro style and homages to classic movies made everyone I know at least want to give it a try. My mom bought it for me along with the console at a garage sale back in 2004. She didn't know, but the seller accidentally left a Blockbuster copy of GTA: San Andreas in the console. Being only 10 at the time, I made sure to play that one after everyone had gone to bed!
Loved this game as a kid, played it all the time and it was especially fun with family/friends. Love the atmosphere too also blew my mind this ran on the same game engine as Twisted Metal Black
I remember seeing so many commercials of this game back in the day (My favorite was the one of the Mega-Brain Alien riffing on a low-budget monster at a drive-in) yet it was never sold anywhere close to where I lived. I ended up getting into the Godzilla games instead but damn, I really missed out!
What a game! They absolutely nailed this game! So much fun. Me and my friend just used to total the city. Some of the levels had many levels of destruction was great!
thanks for the nostalgia! I remember it well. really fun little game w/lovably chonky aesthetics, good times. Another game from that era that had full freedom of movement and a similar living world feel was Battle Engine Aquila. Unlike most shooters that used war as a backdrop, Aquila was the first I can remember that used RTS mechanics & made you feel like you were *part* of a campaign that was directly affected by your actions. If you missed that one (and most did) I recommend it.
Man I used to want this game so so bad! I remember seeing a trailer for it on one of those demo/feature discs you got free with some gaming magazines. I had Rampage Total Destruction, which was similar, but I always had the feeling I was missing out with this game.
Oh, my. I remember playing this game with my siblings when we were kids. I had so much fun! I didn't remember the name at all until I watched this video. Anyway, great video, thanks for bringing back some memories from my childhood.
I absolutely loved this game when I was a teenager. Me and my mates would play the multiplayer for hours and just go around destroying all the buildings before actually fighting. Such an underrated game, shame more people didn't know about it at the time.
Played this so much with my friend in multiplayer that he 'lost' the game at one point because he was so sick of playing it lol
Good For You
It’s still on plantation 4 market
I had a PS2 demo disk with this on it. I remember Id have my friends over and we'd play the same level, same 2 monsters over and over and over again. Take turns beating the shit out of each other, destroying the city etc etc.. good times
Loved those demo disks
everytime you make a video of a game i have never heard of I get the itch to play it its the minimme magic
Blast from the past. Thanks for this!
One of the BEST games ever for the ps2, I played it for hours with my friend back in 2003. I actually still have it to this day (and my old fat ps2). When its a nasty day out or I have the day off I'll turn it on and play for a bit until I get to the canyon level and become irritated lol
This game was a blast to play with friends back in the day.
An online multiplayer with giant monsters would be so great.
They could even release content almost regularly.
I only ever played the demo of this I had a huge stack of demo disc's it's pretty much the only thing I played I didn't have many full games😂watching this takes me back❤
This game reminds me of the PS3 game Eat Them!, on which I did a week's QA work experience back in highschool - my first taste of the videogames industry
My experience was similar. "Wow, this is AWESOME!"... "Wow, this... isn't great."
Oh my god I remember playing this game on the PS3 when I was little! Me, my brother, and my dad were kicking each other’s butts back in the day in this game! 😂😂😂😂
My favourite game of all time! And a game no one I know seems to have played! Would love a remake!
It's a shame Rampage gets all the credit and glory when this game improved on basically everything that series ever did. It's been long outstanding for a remake or a sequel now that we have the forethought and technology to make it even better.
I played this on JAMPAK on ps2. It was great 😢
What a throwback! literally haven't heard anyone talk about this since I was a kid. I can't remember if I had this game or if me and my brother played the heck out of a demo but it was so much fun!
This was such an amazing game.
One of the best local co-op games on the PS2. Spent countless hours passing controllers with a group of friends battling with this game
Miss this game and my friend who owned a PS2 back then, we used to play all the time. Sadly he already passed away so this game holds a special place in my heart
Same. Literally. Rip ben
Sorry about the loss of your friend
@@katlynklassen809and about your loss too
Damn
Incognito Inc. was full of technical wizards in general. Their next game after this was Downhill Domination which was basically SSX on mountain bikes with a little bit of Road Rash thrown in.
It had lush environments with massive draw distances, foliage, & weather effects all running at a brisk 60fps, it's a bit of a gem. Even in 4-player splitscreen it still mostly maintains 60fps which is insane, even if they do have to lower the draw distance to accomplish it.
For a brief time period there Incognito Inc was my favorite developer. All of their titles were super underrated and it was disappointing as hell to see then fade into obscurity.
Played the absolute shit out of both those games as a kid.
There's a cycling game called "Descenders" which gives me a similar enjoyment to "Downhill Domination". it's available on PC, Mac OS, and Xbox One.
I want a modern kaiju game where the monsters intentionally look like rubber suits smashing through cardboard buildings
Gigabash is the closest, even includes some Godzilla kaiju.
Godzilla Save the Earth
@@JackDoesVoicesPoorly I want the graphics to look like 60's special effects. Rubber monsters, miniature cars and tanks, cardboard buildings, blue screened people running away
Fantastic idea! :D
@@sameoldsameold9239yeah I got that game it was amazing have you heard the news recently they're going to include characters from the Ultraman series that DLC will be available in November
I miss these "cause as much chaos as you want" type games that came out during the ps2/ps3 era. They were always fun
One of my fondest memories of this game was picking up Twisted Metal Black so I could unlock the secret Sweet Tooth character by having a save of the game on your memory card. Sure, Twisted metal Black mortified me as a kid, but the memories made it worth it!
What?!?!? Never knew that!
This was almost my experience exactly, although I think at the time I was too young to really get how messed up some of the stuff in Black was
This game wasn't just a love letter to its genres, it was a love letter to me. 50s B movies? Giant monsters? Giant robots? It was everything I gravitated towards as a teenager. You could play as a dracolich for christ sake.
Its always going to have a special place in my heart. I wish I'd ever met anyone in real life who liked it as much as I did.
When I was a kid, this was the holy grail of rentals. Only a single Home Video store, a town over would ever have it. It was also rented nearly every time we went too. Only ever got it twice but we'd play that game so much over that week.
I remember how hard this game was to buy/rent too. My local Blockbuster would sell the videos games you could rent for fairly cheap without the case. That’s the only way I was able to purchase a copy at the time.
It is an absolute travesty that this game has not received a current gen remake or even a sequel of some sort. It was one of my favorite games from my childhood that deserves so much more recognition than it gets.
Yep it’s so weird we haven’t gotten more. you could keep the gist of the gameplay but add way more unlockables, like lots of cosmetics, maybe move sets/perks/mutations, game modes, bigger levels, different mission types and a create a monster mode. That would be chefs kiss.
An issue a lot of Kaiju games run into (and that War of the Monsters thankfully handles well) is not having a sense of scale that befits their premise: The Pipeworks Godzilla games, Gigabash, etc often feel like you're just fighting as a normal or slightly large creature in a miniature toybox set. One would THINK that War of the Monsters making it's monsters only being like 30-50 feet tall and having to climb up rather then tower over buildings might make that issue worse, but instead it (and the less overhead, more behind the shoulder camera it permits) largely solves it: You're often so close to, getting knocked into, or leaping over or climbing onto buildings that it's impossible to NOT feel like you're innteracting with buildings and rampaging across whole cities.
It's not ideal, perhaps, since you don't quite get the power fantasy of just pushing over skyscrapers and stepping on office buildings, but the playable Monsters being more King Kong and less Godzilla sized means that, even if you were to strip away all the textures and other visual details and just have grey blocks without the context of how big things are, the size of your playable character compared to the stuff you walk past and jump on at least would feel like a jungle gym: You're still interacting with things that feel big relative to the player, but not so big that they become obstacles, which strikes a good balance between a normal game where you play as a person and buildings define your playspace/pathing, or on the other extreme being so big and you dwarf buildings so much that they feel like toys rather then a full scale urban space, and it takes clever camerawork and other things to sell the sense of scale correctly.
Anyways, I also just think the game is a joy to play: it's not deep, but climbing up buildings and throwing radio towers around like spears is just fun, and there's a awesome sense of weight and energy when you knock enemies around and they go flying into a skyscraper and the entire facade of the building crumbles. Even if the destruction isn't particular granular or dynamic relative to say the Battlefield Bad Company games, it's enough to make the battles feel fun, especially with the secret natural disasters you an activate.I think the Monsters, despite effectively being reskins in gameplay terms just with different super moves, also still manage to feel distinct through their animations, and the unlockable costumes are great, too.
I think it's a real shame this never got a sequel: As is I think it's the best Kaiju game ever made (though I haven't played the PS4 godzilla game, which seems awesome as a sort of Godzilla sim: it looks like it NAILS the tone of the Toho films and seems like it does the sense of scale better then the plpeworks titles) and with more fleshed out destruction and combat and higher fidelity, that alone I feel like could make it a legitmately amazing game. You criticize the story mode and lack of content but honestly I feel like the unlocks offer a lot already, and while the story mode is short, it's challenging enough and has enough unique encounters that it's pretty fun.
My cousin and I used to rent this game all the time until we each bought copies of it. Honestly very fun and it solidified my early childhood love of B movies and science fiction. Destroy All Humans took it much further. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if we saw War of the Monsters remastered or just upscaled to capitalize on the old memories.
Hadn't heard of this one before! This should be interesting (as always). :)
Same bro
Me and my brothers played the crap out of this, so many memories! One of the best fighter, and ps2, games ever. One of the rare games that is just so full of love, you can feel the passion of the devs in every aspect of the game.
Such a damn guud game! Destructible environments always have a soft spot in my heart and I miss them days. And it was really impressive for its time.
I highly recommend checking out Incogs other two games like Kinetica and Downhill Domination. Very underrated games.
Holy hell! Kinetica is the game I've been looking for literally since I was a child, but could never remember the name of or find any information on! Thank you SO much, dude!! :'D
For me, it's easily still the best kaiju game to date and a shame it hasn't had many imitators.
It had one a year ago but it’s not good
Most Godzilla games aren’t that good either
Man the nostalgia hits hard.
I had an Xbox but I remember being super jealous watching Electric Playground covering this game. As someone who loved kaiju movies as a kid I really wanted to play it.
What a game! I still own this and was one of the first games I had in mind for my emulation library I've been building on my PC. I can't believe it's never had a reboot look in
For some reason your community post made me think you were covering Urban Yeti. As one of my favorite games as a kid, War of the Monsters was an awesome surprise!
Thank for covering this absolute gem of an often forgotten game
Nice to finally see past the second boss. Only got there once, not for difficulty but just getting tired of the exhausting fights taking so long. Love the video mate!
The recent game, "Gigabash", pretty much hits the same vibe but modern. I've enjoyed playing that one with my buddies for sure! Worth checking out.
One of my absolute favorite games as a child! ^-^ Everytime I'd have friends over, we'd spend hours and hours just getting into shenanigans in this game and we never got bored of it! :D
Such a fantastic game. We need a remake! Wish we got more games like this. Nowadays it seems only Nintendo is keeping up with creative and fun games that are not shooters or unfinished open world
I absolutely love this game. It had/has such an atmosphere to it. Something that kinda put you on edge and made you feel slightly uneasy almost as if the monsters were real. I wish there was a sequel.
Need more games like this. Games are way too serious nowadays. Not every game needs to be cinematic to RDR2 levels.
This game is AWESOME. Played the demo forever, throwing tanker trucks into buildings, then finally got the full game years later.
This game has been running from me ever since I first played it, the memories of being a eye ball with electric will always stick with me
Fun fact: There's an underrated BMX racing game called Downhill Domination, and if you play that with a War of the Monsters save on your memory card then the electric cyclops becomes available as a secret racer
Peak of the gaming industry, never got better than this lads
I don’t think it’s particularly fair or accurate to say War of the monsters “hasn’t aged particularly well” for the flaws you mentioned.
Even as a kid who played the game, I had those same issues and did feel kinda empty in content in comparison to other fighters.
It isn’t hard to see why it didn’t become a super hit for sony because of that, but at the same time I don’t think there’s many games that captured the spirit of old sci fi and monster movies and still be a well made game as well as War of the monsters. The only other exceptions I can think of are destroy all humans and maybe stubbs the zombie, king of the monsters and Earth Defense force, but those later 2 are in their own category altogether.
It’s a shame War of the monsters never got a followup that built upon it’s foundation, cause it did have potential to be improved and expanded on instead of incognito doing another twisted metal afterwards.
I loved the robot's "Scorpion" special attack where you could harpoon an opponent and yank them towards you.
Or have a catch with projectiles
This game is in my top 3 favorite PS2 games of all time. My fondest memories are when I was in middle school and visit my mother for the summer, playing with my friend. We lived in the same apartment complex, with him being right below me, and I'd spend hours at his place playing this game, Robotech: Battlecry, and Zone of the Enders. My top picks were usually Togera, Ultra V, and Raptros, whereas he'd prefer Raptros, Preytor, and Congar, and we'd either play against the CPU, or when it's just us we'd just DEMOLISH the city for funsies. Hell, this one time, another of his friends come over with(I think) Dragon Ball Z: Budokai(forgot which one), and we'd game on it for a bit, then he caught sight of the games I got, and he'd never seen War of the Monsters before. We booted that up on the PS2 and Budokai was almost forgotten about for roughly an hour and a half, as this guy was enraptured by the large-scale environments and just how destructible everything was.
I have this game downloaded on my PS4. Still play it from time to time. Fun!
AMAZING video, this game does not get enough love. I remember (as everyone else😊) countless hours with friends and siblings. Hell, even my Grandpa liked this game, he'd always be Conga "Nobody beats King Kong!!"
i'm so glad that series like earth defense force exist to carry on the spirit of the early 2000s "watch giant monsters level an entire city block built entirely out of cardboard boxes" third person action game subgenre
in portugal the magazine PSM2 gave it a score 50/100 but for me it was a solid and enjoyable 75/100
I still play this game, along with a few other old PS2 games... back in the early Oughts's gaming was perfect.
We are not in accord on how this game has aged. I find it's simplicity to be delightful. Complexity was tossed out in favor of button mashing mayhem & an on/off button for volcanic eruptions. This game really needs a super-fun update, with new monsters, cities to destroy, 4 player mode, & so on...
I actually still have War of the Monsters in my PS2 game collection... good times...
Love this game as a kid, and introduced it to my son who loves playing it
Wow. Used to play this game with my stepbrother. Fantastic memories, I miss him and that life so much
PS2 Sony was super strange looking back. I love that they funded a bunch of weird niche games like this, and wish they still did that really
There was a youth outing a went to as a child and was pretty scared because I didn’t know anyone. I then found a little office room with a PS2 in it, and had this game. I ended up playing this all night. Have never owned it or a PS2, but every time I see it I think of that time. Cool game.
This game was the shit, I couldn't get enough of it as a kid. My friends would come over and we'd play for hours. Would love a spiritual successor to this, imagine how well you could pull this concept off with the power of a modern console
Awesome video! Also shoutouts to Gigabash! Its nice to see the game where Gigabash was inspired from
Awesome! Happy 20th Anniversary
Truly the greatest kaju fighting simulator.
Dude I hope we get a War of the Monsters 2 or at least a remaster for the PS6 or even in 2025, i was playing this a lot earlier in 2023 hope there’s a sequel
Red faction and war of the monsters were gems on the ps2. i must've spent a good few years playing each one individually
Played this game with my little sister when I was like 9 or something. We played it again yesterday, I'm 27 now 😁
This a game I feel would definitely be an awesome remaster and they could add new monsters and add improvements. It would be so cool. I grew up playing this game for hours on end as a kid beating the story with all the characters to unlock the skins and by the two secret characters! It was an awesome game that was definitely underrated
Dude we need a War of the Monsters 2 in 2025, this game was way ahead of its time and GVK is hot rn it’s a good time to make a sequel
i played the demo so many times as a kid. the electrib eyeball monster is so iconic.
Those piercing objects aren't OP you can catch them out of the air by spamming the item pick up button and throw them back. Of course you have t see it coming first.
wow, I'm early for a minimme video, time to find out what weird game I didn't know or weird repressed childhood memory is on the menu
What memories… I remember my dad had a PS2 demo disk (I think it was Jampack: Summer 2003) that was showing all of the upcoming releases and this was one of them. You only had the ape and the electric monster. It wasn’t until 2006 that I got this game, Downhill Domination, and Amplitude for my birthday. Man, what a blast!
I remember doing lots of wacky stuff in this game, like timing the grab button to catch weapons being thrown at you, or using the offensive special attack from the electric monster on a downed enemy. For some reason it would make the enemy fly extremely high in the air! But nothing will ever top throwing enemies from buildings and just general chaos
War of the monsters is basically king of monsters but in 3d.
Just realized that the intro to this game has a cameo by 4 cars from Twisted Metal Black. Roadkill, Shadow, Crazy 8, and Yellow Jacket! Very neat!
2:33 we need a new Hulk game like the incredible hulk ultimate destruction
Man I played soooo much of this as a kid. Thanks for covering it.
Absolute banger of a game, so glad to see it getting it's due
Never has a game been more deserving of a remaster. I remember renting War of the Monsters from Blockbuster as a kid and being completely enamoured with it. It was everything I wanted in a game as a child and to this day is still criminally overlooked.
I just stumbled upon this in the PlayStation store and got mega nostalgia. I bought It immediately. I played this game so much, played with each monster Multiple times. Good times.
Very well put together video. Thank you
I shit myself with excitement to see you cover this!!!
Played the PS4 port of this recently. I enjoyed my time with it, but I really needed some sort of storyline. I didn’t have the motivation to play the same campaign over again.
I regret never owning the game. But I cherish the fact that me and my brother always played the demo on the official demo disc. One Level. Just a handful of monsters to choose from. But we had the fun of our lives.
Played loads of this game, as it was my first PS2 game. I could play with just about anyone because the retro style and homages to classic movies made everyone I know at least want to give it a try. My mom bought it for me along with the console at a garage sale back in 2004. She didn't know, but the seller accidentally left a Blockbuster copy of GTA: San Andreas in the console. Being only 10 at the time, I made sure to play that one after everyone had gone to bed!
What was your favorite monster
@@animezilla4486 I liked to play as Ultra V
@@spartansfan1026 oh that's cool mine is Togera
Happy to see a video about this classic! Was literally just playing it the other night, brought back a lot of memories.
Only had the demo for this and it was still one of my favourite games to play
Loved this game as a kid, played it all the time and it was especially fun with family/friends. Love the atmosphere too
also blew my mind this ran on the same game engine as Twisted Metal Black
Somebody needs to do a remake soon!
I remember seeing so many commercials of this game back in the day (My favorite was the one of the Mega-Brain Alien riffing on a low-budget monster at a drive-in) yet it was never sold anywhere close to where I lived. I ended up getting into the Godzilla games instead but damn, I really missed out!
I loved this game, still can't believe it didn't get a few sequels
Oh, we had tons of fun with this game. Spent way too long enjoying it. I'm also a suckered for kaiju battles.
This game was legitemately awesome
20 years? times fly man.......
What a game! They absolutely nailed this game! So much fun. Me and my friend just used to total the city. Some of the levels had many levels of destruction was great!
My brother and I played this game for years. I'm sure if we'd both still be down for a game anytime.
thanks for the nostalgia! I remember it well. really fun little game w/lovably chonky aesthetics, good times. Another game from that era that had full freedom of movement and a similar living world feel was Battle Engine Aquila. Unlike most shooters that used war as a backdrop, Aquila was the first I can remember that used RTS mechanics & made you feel like you were *part* of a campaign that was directly affected by your actions. If you missed that one (and most did) I recommend it.
Man I used to want this game so so bad! I remember seeing a trailer for it on one of those demo/feature discs you got free with some gaming magazines. I had Rampage Total Destruction, which was similar, but I always had the feeling I was missing out with this game.
Loved this as a kid played all day long with brother. Great mini games
Oh, my. I remember playing this game with my siblings when we were kids. I had so much fun!
I didn't remember the name at all until I watched this video.
Anyway, great video, thanks for bringing back some memories from my childhood.
Everyone’s so nostalgic about this I need to try it
This game and SSX Tricky are the best PS2 games of all time. That's just facts.