When I was 19, my two favorite comic books were Sin City and Hellboy, and my three favorite movies were Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Dolemite (link NSFW), and Escape from New York. Knowing that, just envision how amazed I was last year when I heard that Platinum Games was making a game that looks exactly like Sin City; stars a guy who looks like a perfect cross between Sin City’s Marv, Hellboy’s Hellboy, and Evil Dead’s Ash; and has a story that is nearly exactly like Escape from New York. If, at age 19, I had the power to make any videogame I wanted, that game would have been MadWorld.

It wouldn’t be until I actually played the game that I realized how much Dolemite-style ridiculousness MadWorld has, too, but I’ll get to that later.