Games Like MadWorld
Quick Answer
The closest games to MadWorld are Anarchy Reigns, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, The Wonderful 101, No More Heroes and Bayonetta. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from MadWorld, and what does not.
What Made MadWorld Work
MadWorld is black, white and red — a Wii action game shaped like a game show where you score points by killing creatively rather than efficiently. The commentary is constant and the visual conceit carries it. It is short, and it never pretends otherwise.
MadWorld is PlatinumGames' 2009 Wii action game, published by Sega. Jack Cayman, armed with a chainsaw, fights through a city turned into a deadly game show called DeathWatch, earning points for creative kills using the environment. Its black, white and red art style resembles a comic book, and Greg Proops and John DiMaggio provide the commentary. Fans usually want another stylish, violent action game.
9 Games Like MadWorld
1.Anarchy Reigns
The direct sequel in all but name, by the same studio.
Why it fits: PlatinumGames' 2012 brawler, released in the West in 2013, brings back Jack Cayman in a multiplayer-focused game.
What is different: PlatinumGames' follow-up with Jack in a multiplayer brawler; full colour replaces the black, white and red.
Where to play it: PS3 and Xbox 360.
More about this game →2.Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Platinum again, and built around one very good idea.
Why it fits: PlatinumGames' 2013 game lets Raiden slice enemies freely with a precise blade mode.
What is different: You slice enemies apart at any angle and win by parrying; a cyborg ninja, in full colour.
Where to play it: PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Games like this →3.The Wonderful 101
Kamiya at his strangest, and the most mechanically dense Platinum game.
Why it fits: PlatinumGames' 2013 Wii U game has you control a crowd of heroes who form weapons.
What is different: Bright superhero comedy with a crowd of heroes, and no gore at all.
Where to play it: Wii U; the remaster is on Switch, PS4 and PC.
More about this game →4.No More Heroes
The other great stylised Wii action game, and just as odd.
Why it fits: Grasshopper Manufacture's 2007 Wii game, directed by Suda51, follows Travis Touchdown climbing the ranks of assassins.
What is different: An assassin climbing a ranking, with a beam katana and odd jobs around a small open town.
Where to play it: Wii; later PS3, Xbox 360, Switch and PC.
More about this game →5.Bayonetta
Platinum's combat at full depth.
Why it fits: PlatinumGames' 2009 game, directed by Hideki Kamiya, has deep combo-based combat and Witch Time, which slows enemies after a perfect dodge; it came out the same year as MadWorld.
What is different: Style-ranked combat in full colour with Witch Time; far more combos and far less gore.
Where to play it: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, Switch and PC; later PS4 and Xbox One.
More about this game →6.Devil May Cry
The genre's origin, and the style meter came from here.
Why it fits: Capcom's 2001 PS2 game, directed by Hideki Kamiya, introduced style-ranked combat that rewards variety — the same idea behind MadWorld's points for creative kills.
What is different: A gothic castle and a style meter; no environmental kills or blood-splashed monochrome.
Where to play it: PS2; the HD Collection is on PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Games like this →7.Comix Zone
For the commitment to one visual conceit above all else.
Why it fits: Sega Technical Institute's 1995 Genesis game takes place inside the panels of a comic book.
What is different: A 2D brawler inside the panels of a comic book, where you can tear the paper to hurt enemies.
Where to play it: Mega Drive.
Games like this →8.Hotline Miami
Scoring style over efficiency, in two dimensions.
Why it fits: Dennaton Games' 2012 top-down game, published by Devolver Digital, rewards fast, stylish violence with points.
What is different: Top-down and neon, with one-hit deaths on both sides; bloody, but closer to a puzzle of speed.
Where to play it: PC, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One and Switch.
More about this game →9.Astral Chain
Platinum's most recent original, and the best-produced.
Why it fits: PlatinumGames' 2019 Switch game combines detective work with controlling two characters in combat.
What is different: A police story with a creature chained to you, and a detective half; no gore.
Where to play it: Switch.
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Where to Start
Anarchy Reigns is the closest, with Jack Cayman returning. No More Heroes is the pick for another stylish Wii action game. Bayonetta is the choice for Platinum's deepest combat.
How We Picked These Games
Every pick either comes from PlatinumGames or a related team, shares MadWorld's commitment to one bold visual style, or rewards style over efficiency. We placed Platinum's own games first.
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How These Picks Match MadWorld
MadWorld is catalogued here as a beat 'em up on the Nintendo Wii. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine action games and six fighting games among them.
Going by the "where to play it" notes, six can be played on PC, seven can be played on a PlayStation, five can be played on a Nintendo system and six can be played on an Xbox. Hotline Miami is from a small or self-published studio.
| Game | Genre | Shares with MadWorld | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anarchy Reigns | Action, Fighting | Action, Fighting | PS3 and Xbox 360. |
| Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | Action, Fighting | Action, Fighting | PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. |
| The Wonderful 101 | Action, Strategy, Fighting | Action, Fighting | Wii U; the remaster is on Switch, PS4 and PC. |
| No More Heroes | Action, Adventure | Action | Wii; later PS3, Xbox 360, Switch and PC. |
| Bayonetta | Action, Fighting | Action, Fighting | Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, Switch and PC; later PS4 and Xbox One. |
| Devil May Cry | Action, Fighting | Action, Fighting | PS2; the HD Collection is on PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One and PC. |
| Comix Zone | Fighting, Action, Arcade | Action, Fighting | Mega Drive. |
| Hotline Miami | Action, Shooter, Indie | Action | PC, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One and Switch. |
| Astral Chain | Action, Adventure | Action | Switch. |
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