Deadly Creatures comes to life with some of the best visuals on Wii. Rainbow has pushed the hardware to deliver commendably detailed main character models and some environments that are beautifully skinned with crisp textures and colored with a convincing, ambient palette. A few of the locales boast a great amount of 3D geometry, too. In one such area, you'll see dozens of different, twisting branches layered in the background as the tarantula walks through. Rainbow Studios says that it still wants to add some background animations to this area so that you'll be able to see peering eyes behind trees and critters running away as you crawl. The downside to the great tech and art package, however, is that the admittedly unfinished game still runs with some framerate slowdowns, and the camera occasionally hiccups, losing sight of the tarantula as it crawls over ledges, flipping the viewpoint. We're hopeful that the studio can work the finer details before the game ships this Halloween. Even with these quibbles, Deadly Creatures is quickly becoming one of the most compelling third-party games to hit Nintendo's console, as evidenced by the fact that we already can't wait to sit down and play through the game from beginning to end, taking in the story nuances even as we pounce onto and devour crickets.
) I was like "wow." And it takes a game about a spider and a scorpion to get something like this from a third party? This and De Blob is putting THQ heavily on my radar right now.
