There is a blocking move available, but even the short time it takes to charge up renders it practically useless. Things get especially muddy once another Kaiju enters the picture: battles quickly became a frustrating game of chance that had me spamming the same five attacks, hoping that I would land more hits than my opponent. Keeping a combo going while on a rampage essentially boils down to using the same few attacks over and over again, and thanks to Godzilla’s slow speed and ponderous controls, it’s easy to miss a step or get stuck turning around and lose your combo. After finally getting used to the unorthodox control scheme (I never thought I’d have to use two separate buttons to turn left or right after the advent of thumbsticks) I found crashing through a downtown area somewhat entertaining.

It’s not particularly challenging, either - the military tanks and planes were never more than a nuisance and unless a rival Kaiju spawned at twice my current size (which rarely happens and may have been a bug), I barely saw the orange haze that appeared when Godzilla takes too much damage. There isn’t much else to it beyond that: blow up the generators, kill the other monsters before they kill you. The main game mode centers around increasing Godzilla’s size by destroying as much as possible, specifically large power generators and other Kaiju. I can’t tell what it wants itself to be - a smash-and-go action game in the vein of Rampage, or a monstrous fighting game like the previous Godzilla game Destroy All Monsters. Godzilla also suffers from a minor identity crisis. Even on PS3 or Xbox 360, I’d have described these settings as lackluster. Even in the midst of a monstrous rampage, these structures all explode and crumble in a similar fashion, breaking apart into the same standard chunks as the building before it. The city blocks in each area look as though they’ve been copied and pasted to fill space, aside from the few unique structures that mark the difference between one nondescript urban location and the next. While the character models of the Kaiju themselves look respectably good - particularly fan favorites like Mothra and Destroyah, as well as the several versions of Godzilla - the destructible environments that surround them are far from impressive.

The first thing most people will probably notice is that Godzilla does not look like a current-gen game.

Godzilla ps4 models