11.11.2006

I have never been a big fan of fighting games. If you were to put me down in front of Mortal Combat I would die of boredom. Give me a gun and I'll just shoot them!!I have always been a big fan of Rockstar games, GTA and especially Max Payne! I was excited for the release of this game but when I found out it had no guns I was sceptical! It was my friend that got this game first. What I saw was unlike any fighting game I had ever seen!This is a free to roam fighting game where you can beat the hell out of any one you choose in the most elaborate ways, not just gang members. Firstly each warrior has there own unique set of moves and finishing move, and secondly you can also use almost any object as a weapon.For example, pick up a bin throw it at someone, out rolls a bottle, smash them over the head with it, then stab them with the broken end and finally throw it at the body or just at some random passer by. Some other objects included are crow bars, bricks, knives, meat cleavers, bats, polls, boxes, hotdogs, brooms, planks rapped in barbed wire, a big sausage, and a slab of steak, Nice! There are many breakables on each level; you can put anyone though shop windows or just slamming their face into the glass is equally satisfying. If you want to steal a car radio why use a crowbar to break the glass when a Hobo's head will do just the same job! Brutal!The Missions are fantastic and so much fun, you will go back and play your favourites many times and in lots of different ways. The detail and depth to this game is great, I haven't seen anything quite like it. All the different gangs are so cool and each have unique ways of doing things. The audio is the best I have ever seen on a game. There are hundreds of characters and each have so many different sound bites. I still hear them come out with things I've never heard before and I've had this game for a year, which also shows its longevity. So many games I play for a while and then never go back to, but I always go back to the warriors and its instant satisfaction. This game doesn't discriminate. It doesn't matter whether they are Men or Women, Young or Old, Big or Small, Black or White! If they get in my way, then they're Going down, and going down hard (and in stile)! That is the satisfaction of the warriors. It's so much fun!Two player modeIt has fantastic two player options, not only does it have separate games for two players but you can play the whole game as two-player mode as well. If you stay close together you play full screen, which I like, but if you wish to roam it goes split screen for more freedom.The rumble modeExtra games are great fun in two player mode as well. One of my favourites is the battle royal game. Where you have to ring out your opponents, but instead of throwing them out of a ring you are throwing them out of buildings! It is great to create your own gang from a massive choice of all the characters in the game. It can be funny because they all have different screams when you throw them off. It's good to see who can create the best gang and then have it out!Warriors is a classic and truly one of my very favourites. I hope they make a second warriors game! Oh and for the great price on Amazon this should definitely be a no brainer! I feel like buying this game again just for Prosperatar!Rockstars newest game Bully (Canis Canem Edit) seems to be of a similar style. The graphics and game play are the same and also has a great focus on audio. It is a fantastic new game but probably not as satisfying as Warriors. You cant hit the girls the same way as you can the guys which is a bit sexist. This is a good game but it will not replace Warriors!

31.8.2006

Of all the films that would make a good game, surely The Warriors is one of them? After all, controlling a gang trying to get from one side of New York to the other, fighting every step of the way, is a goldmine. And considering Rockstar made it, you're expecting it to be rather good.Naturally, it's a riot - literally and figuratively.The game takes the Manhunt engine, but instead of stalk and execute, the onus is on running and brawling your way throughout New York against rival gangs and the police, using your fists or any weapon that comes to hand, which there are plenty.Yet the game did miss a trick one a couple of points. First, most of the game is set three months before the events of the film,building up the characters and rivalries (as well as adding more to the characters, especially with the flashback missions that have back-story for most of them). Secondly, the game is split up into missions - not such a problem with the events prior to the film, or around your Coney Island hub, but when the events of the film come up, most of those are far too short - especially the missions against the Baseball Furies, or the fact the Lizzies and the Punks are both lumped into one mission.However, the game does have plenty of aces above its sleeve to compensate - the prior mission are a lot of fun and slowly bring you into the game, and there's the Rumble Mode as well that you can constantly unlock new gangs to use and new modes - personal favourite of mine is the insanely enjoyable Battle Royale mode, although King of the Hill is also exceptionally good fun.Of course, there are times the game seems intent on stirring controversy (you make money by stealing car radios and mugging people, and the health pickups are snorted like certain illegal substances), but the fighting is as dirty as in the film, right down to holding enemies so an ally can hit them and ramming their heads into the wall, as well as throwing elbows, knees, and kicking them when they're down. And that's not mentioning bottles, bricks, planks...There's also the fact they got almost the entire original cast in to do The Warriors' voices, with plenty of dialogue to fill out their character. However, some characters don't have their voices, which ruins the effect - while Rembrandt, Masai and the DJ are understandable, how they can't have David Patrick Kelly as Luther or Roger Hill as Cyrus, key characters in the film, is a mystery and does dampen the effect.The game isn't the longest, either - it's at best a week's worth, and some gangs having boss characters on certain levels is a step too far into being a video game (and we'll ignore the occasional lapse in film-to-game continuity), yet it is certainly enough fun and worthy of a few replays to unlock all the gangs and characters for Rumble Mode at the very least.

25.10.2005

You do not have to be a fan of the movie to enjoy this great game!!I had two real reasons for getting this game: -1.I loved the film,2. The makers, Rockstar always release promising games whether it be a GTA game, or fresh ideas, such as Red Dead Revolver.I got the game, and realised....This is amazing!Before i got the game i thought that it may be too linear, and have little or no replay value, as well as nothing outside the missions, this is where i was wrong.In between missions, you can hang around coney island and do bonus missions and explore the island, this was a plus, also in the warriors hideout you can play pre-game story missions of how members joined the gang, such as Cleons story,

2.8.2006

I won't beat around the bush with this game because I LOVE IT! Having seen the film a number of years back I knew exactly what the game was when I saw the front cover. I bought this quite hastilly it should be said. To start off I think the best part of the game is it runs exactly how the film did and therefore has captured it's magic. The first part is extra missions and things like getting rid of Cleon's old gang the Destroyers after forming the Warriors. There's also fun levels like joining in with rioting and looting during a blackout and thrashing riot police. Actually, that said, the 18 certificate should be heeded well as impressionable young kids may get swayed into believing street gangs are cool and exciting.

10.2.2006

With a remake of the film coming, and the original gaining an amazing cult status the game was inevitable. It could of gone so wrong, a company like EA could of taken it over and made a quick buck from it, but Rockstar got the rights and God was that a good decision, with Rockstar being some of the most creator of some of the best recent games you could expect it to be good, but its better, so much thought has been put into designing the sets and characters, although the graphics aren’t the best (they are good though), the game play is absolutely stunning.It really feels like the Rockstar care about the film and that makes all the difference, there are so many options and its free roam in a lot of places,

12.11.2005

Ah yes another brutal beat em up from our hero game developers rock star.This game as you well know is based on events before the film and then leading up to the film it's self and is very cleverly done , there are a fair few modes of play as well which are very entertaining.as for the actual game it's self the game play and controls seem hard to get into at first but trust me , it eases out .the main point is basically street fighting in the most brutal way possible whether it's bare knuckles , knuckle dusters (later unlocked) or with any piece of weaponry ranging from a broken bit of wood to a combat knife where you can pull off executions which do actually seem harsh but then again we all

3.4.2006

I have seldom played a game which has left me with such an impression.The storyline is excellent, characters,dialogue and graphics outstanding. "Friendly" and "enemy" AI is also first rate and streets ahead of many other games. It's not unlike the "Brothers in Arms" series of war games in this respect.This is a very immersive game, dark, brooding,violent and realistic which captures perfectly the immorality of gangland life in late seventies New York.A cut scene near the end sees one of the characters, "Swan" sitting on a tube train opposite some late night revellers going home after a night out dancing and drinking.The contrast could not be greater. The look in his eyes is remarkable:challenging,

7.3.2006

What better way to doff one's hat to unarguably the best gang films every made that with this game.Graphically it screams at you with every move, the faces of the characters are instantly recognisable with their film counterparts. Cut-scenes between the action are a mixture of excerpts from the film and new action shots, which all give this game the feel that you are really involved on the action.Starting off a couple of months before the famous meeting that the film starts with the game eases you in with a really good tutorial that follows a new gang member going through his initiation.The difficulty levels ramp up at about the right level, and depending on how well you complete a level,

2.11.2005

I just completed this game last night and I have to say it is excellent. Playing in a co-operative mode (similar to Freedom Fighters) is great fun. The story is identical to the film with a few added extras, the graphics are usual Rockstar fare, and the music is excellent.You have to steal car radios, break into shops, mug people to earn cash for drugs/paint in the game. The fighting is really intense with a vast amount of opponents wasting your gang at any one time. It plays like a beat-em-up mixed with the non-driving aspects of GTA. In fact, it's similar to the excellent old mega-drive game Streets of Rage in a lot of ways.I really liked the fact that they kept the same character voices from the film.

5.1.2006

To answer my question, yes! The game includes everything that the film does and more.Often, the main problems with these kind of games is that there is nothing to do outside the missions, therefore it's gameplay becomes limited. However, this is where this game differs from other action/adventure/beat-em-ups. Whilst you aren't doing missions you can hang around Coney Island mugging old men (who complain about their hips), steal car radios, loot stores or do bonus missions for others, including stopping other gangs invading your turf.Besides the main missions, you can enter the flashback missions and learn how the different members joined The Warriors, and after completeing the main story,

5.2.2013

I played through most of this with my flatmate on co-op mode. However, I grew a bit tired of the basic mechanics and the camera drove me mad, so I ended up just watching my flatmate play through the rest. I did really enjoy the game and its fun to beat the crap out of everyone but the gameplay becomes a bit repetitive, making certain gameplay elements seem like tasks after a while. It definitely makes up for this with an awesome story that leads up to the original film's plot, a lot of attention to detail and a killer soundtrack (this is a Rockstar game). It plays sort of like a gunless, pedestrian Grand Theft Auto, with a more beat-em-up style combat. Voice acting is superb.

3.11.2005

This game is absolutely brilliant.The first day i got this game home i was so wrapped up in it that i didnt realise that i had played it for 11 straight hours. you can play as 9 different characters each with there own style of fighting. you have to raise money in this game by any means neccessary including mugging innocent bystanders, stealing car radios and looting shops. there are 23 levels each one getting progressively harder and longer as the game goes on and with varying storylines there is definately a grand theft auto feel to this game but without the driving and a billion times better.

30.3.2007

I was rather intregued by the title to start with as there are no real clues as such to let you know as to what you are getting into. The game is set in the late 1970's with the type of rampaging style that was going on at the time in the United States. The gameplay itself starts off with you as they're new recruit to the gang (Third Person for those of you who hate the First Person type playing of a game). You then have to get into they're slightly odd way of speaking but its all part of the fun. In this game you have the opertunity to play the start up of the warriors gang and how some of the other members joined in.After the first few stages of the game you really do get into the way of things and it can become quite adictive.

6.10.2006

If you love Rockstar games as much as i do,you will absolutly adore this game!. In the fine tradition of grand theft auto, manhunt, and red dead revolver, the warriors is totally addictive!. The graphics are suprisingly clear, and the story missions are all really satisfying to play. Although some of the charachters are sometimes hard to like, you end up routing for them in the end!. The rumble mode is a really interesting idea, as it gives you something to do after 100 percent completion, and unlike gta san andreas i think the game is just the right length without the gamer getting slightly bored. The musics is pure 1970s gold, though i would have liked to see interchangeable radio stations.

5.12.2005

This game is fantastic. The gameplay is impossible to get bored of, the fighting is much better than I expected and the story is class!I expected quite alot from this game and it delivered. The fact that you can mug people and steal radio cars is class. The fact that the story doesn't just start when the gang leader gets shot but before during and then after is class. To be honest with you there is just the one dissapointment which is the weapons, they are quite imaginative ranging from a table leg to a sledgehammer however they break after you hit someone with it like 2 times. Sometimes you die quite quickly but that just makes you more determined to find a different way of doing the mission

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