Shaq Fu

This is what happens when basketball players begin to think a little too much about themselves. I know it's not pretty, but I need to show this.

    

                        Hadoken!                                                                 Lame victory sayings one and two

                (Wave Motion Fist)

Ironhawk's Review

Graphics: 7      They get the job done.

Sound: 5          It has sound and music, just like all video games.

Playability: 2    This is like the "fighting mode" in a side-scrolling beat-em-up.  You have a jab, quick kick, slow attack-thing and some other attack mapped to the face buttons.  You can also taunt with the R button.  Plus, everyone has at least one "special" move accomplished by variations on the "Ryu" motion.  It's a button masher, alright, but the problem is, it's a slow-moving button masher.  You can't cancel any moves so you have to wait about a half second after every punch before tapping another button will do anything.  And it uses one of those jumping systems where you can either go up, diagonal back, or diagonal forward.  The game is just poorly designed, period.  It's like the developers were assigned to write a computer program with Shaq in it in under two weeks so they could ship it off to the treatment plant in time for processing.

Concept: 0       This has to be one of the worst ideas for a video game.  EVER!  It's in the same class as "Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City" or "RPG Maker: For your Home Console System"

Retro Value: 7  It's one of those games that's so bad, you've got to keep it.  But never ever put it into your Super Nes.

Overall: 1         This game gains a point because there's a character named "Rajah" in it, then promptly loses that point because it has a character named "Shaq".

Nightowl's Review

Graphics: 4    The portraits of the characters before fights are detailed and look good. But when I saw the character models when the fight started... yuck. The animation was choppy, but the triple parallaxes are nice.

Sound: 3    Rap beats... no.

Playability: 3    No real special attacks can be found here. 

Concept: 0    A fighting game made off a basketball player? Get real!

Retro Value: 1    I play this game to appreciate games like Samurai Showdown and Street Fighter.

Overall:  0    Shaq attack! Shaq should attack this game, rip it up into little shreds and spit on it before taking a crap on it.