Europe - 'Mercury Meltdown Revolution' Flows Onto the Wii

Mercury Meltdown did wonders for the PS2 and PSP, so a motion sensitive control scheme for the title is only the logical approach for developers. The object of the game is to guide the flowing mercury to one or more finish posts in the level. As the blobs of mercury have different colors, different destinations are assigned for them (checkpoints, gates, finish lines). Mercury Meltdown Revolution has now been confirmed for release on 8th June in Europe, as Eurogamer reports.

While the PSP's Archer Maclean's Mercury, got a 9 out of 10 on almost every major gaming site, the following PS2 installment got a positive response as well, so a Wii port will probably drive the gaming world into a Mercury frenzy, with a motion sensitive control scheme.

The first announcement of the game's Wii installment was on December 13, 2006. Ignition Entertainment said that a version of Mercury Meltdown for Nintendo's Wii console, known as Mercury Meltdown Revolution, would include more than 150 levels and that it would be the first Mercury title to use motion sensing control, something which the series was originally designed for.

Of course, the control scheme isn't everything Ignition is changing with this Wii port. Changes will vary from updated graphics and support for 480p progressive scan, widescreen 16:9, to optional support for the Wii Classic Controller.

However, one of the major criticisms of the first installment was that it was just too difficult. The progression was quite linear, thus if you got stuck on a level, you could not progress any further. This led many gamers to just give up on the "race." But this was later rectified with following installments as the progression system has been tweaked. All stages in a lab are now accessible when the lab is unlocked, meaning players can decide to try another stage to progress.

Remember, on June 8th European stores will be flooded with Mercury Meltdown Revolution, one of the most popular PSP and PS2 games every created by Ignition.