Game:

China Warrior (1987)

Duration: 6:19

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Original Air Date: May 21st, 2009

For its time, it boasted incredible visuals, but that's about the only thing praiseworthy in the game. The game has amazingly repetitve fights, has awful controls, and it's more frustrating than it's worth IMO. The worst part is, if you torture yourself trying to finish it, you're rewarded with one of the crappiest endings you can hope to find in a video game where nobody thought to translate it, not to mention it just sucks in general. It sure looks good though, but maybe that's also the problem.

The characters are huge and detailed with decent animations and your guy actually gets bruised as his health gets low. In this game, you're always moving except when you attack and crouch. You're so big, you barely have time to react to some of the oncoming attacks. While you fight the ocassional boss and the like, this game is about as much of a brawler as it is some kind of object-hitting simulator or something.

You'll be hitting rocks and hitting birds and hitting flames and hitting bugs and hitting fine china and hitting balls and hitting weapons and hitting humanoids who color-swap generously and jumping over boulders and... man, do I need to go on? Your man (let's just call him Bruce) has a strange assortment of moves which will throw you off but they work for this game. You can punch, duck and punch, kick, and jump and do two kinds of kicks. You also have these sort of "special moves" which deal more damage but the controls make a simple manuever work randomly, not that you even need these special moves.

You can't jump and punch or crouch and kick, which is just strange. Screw that, this whole game is strange if you couldn't tell by what he's doing and the setting alone. This game was marketed as competition against the NES' Kung Fu (Spartan X), but it sadly doesn't play as good as it looks. If you watch the attract mode, the computer gets owned, making me wonder if this game was play-tested. If you LOVE Kung-Fu for the NES, then I would give this a try. If you're brave enough, then unleash the power of a CHINA WARRIOR!!

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