The Showdown Effect gave me something I never knew I wanted, but now can’t live without: Godzilla boxing a towering silhouette of a featureless hulk man in the background of a level. Once, during one of the side-scrolling, Quake 3: Arena-meets-Super-Smash-Bros matches, I just stopped in place to watch the action unfold. The man clearly had Godzilla against the ropes, cracking his scaly chin with crisp uppercuts that sent the lord of all lizards backpedaling. But then, as is his wont, Godzilla put down his comparatively diminutive dukes and unleashed a mouth beam of radioactive green. It was quite the spectacle, and it was obvious Magicka developer Arrowhead had put some real thought into it. It made me want to see more. Do more. But alas, that’s all there was to it. Window dressing. Flat cardboard cutouts. I’d say the same of The Showdown Effect as a whole: lots of love, but very little depth.