– as Mechagodzilla 2 and Mechagodzilla 3 Godzilla: Unleashed (Wii, PlayStation 2 – 2007) – as Mechagodzilla (1974, Wii exclusive), Mechagodzilla 2 and Kiryu Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash (Nintendo DS – 2007) – as Kiryu Godzilla on Monster Island (AVP Slot – 2011) – as Kiryu Godzilla (PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 – 2014/2015) – as Mechagodzilla (1974, PS4 exclusive), Mechagodzilla 2 (1975), Super Mechagodzilla, and Kiryu City Shrouded in Shadow (PS4 – 2017) – as Kiryu Godzilla Defense Force (2019) GigaBash (2022) - as Kiryu Literature Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters (1998) Ready Player One (novel – 2011) – as Kiryu Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters (comic – 2011–2012) Godzilla: Gangsters and Goliaths (comic – 2011) Godzilla: Legends (comic – 2011–2012) Godzilla: Ongoing (comic – 2012) Godzilla: The Half-Century War (comic – 2012–2013) Godzilla: Rulers of Earth (comic – 2013–2015) – as Mechagodzilla (1974) and Kiryu Godzilla: Oblivion (comic – 2016) Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse (novel – 2017) Godzilla: Project Mechagodzilla (novel – 2018) Reception The character has generally been positively received. It was rated No. 15 of the 50 Best Movie Robots by The Times, beating other such legends as C-3PO from Star Wars, the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Optimus Prime from Transformers. Complex listed the character as No. 6 on its "The 15 Most Badass Kaiju Monsters of All Time" list, while IGN listed it as No. 4 on their "Top 10 Japanese Movie Monsters" list. In popular culture In an episode of 30 Rock'''s fifth season, "Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish", Kiryu appears as one of the characters in a theme restaurant. In Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One and its film adaptation, the main antagonist Nolan Sorrento controls a full-size Mechagodzilla replica during the climactic battle in a virtual reality environment. In the book, it is the Kiryu model that fights against Ultraman. The film version is an original design based on Legendary's Godzilla design that battles the Iron Giant and the RX-78-2 Gundam. In the game Bulletstorm, there is a level where the player controls a mechanical version of a Hekaton (which is the game's equivalent to Godzilla) as well as the song being played during this part of the game being called "Mecha-dzilla." Mechagodzilla makes a cameo appearance in the Ugly Americans episode "Kong of Queens", in which King Kong fights Godzilla (King Kong's children watching the movie King Kong vs. Godzilla), and