New Legends

1) This has to be the worst of the worst: when you are hit, it takes 2-5 seconds to recover, during which time you cannot fight but will continue to take hits and damage from your enemies. It doesn't matter how hard you hit any buttons. Your character will spin for a few seconds and bleed away. And get this: when you hit an enemy, he doesn't suffer from this problem! So if you play this game, be prepared to die many unnecessary deaths.

2) While there's an impressive list of weapons in the game, many are very poorly implemented. Get a machine gun or shot gun, and you'll find that you can't really aim accurately. Sometimes... even when you aim and fire at the enemy, he doesn't suffer any damage! I don't know if this is a bug, or just another way for some sadistic programmer to make a gamer's life miserable.

3) Enemies are strong. As mentioned before, they don't get immobilized temporarily like your character does, and they are really tough... I'm talking about the non-bosses! And there's no difficulty option in this game.

4) Even though you can access the save screen at any time during the game, it doesn't really save the game at the point you think you are saving. Instead, when you load the game, it starts from the beginning of the mission! And what exactly constitutes a savable mission is also confusing.

In short, this is a terrible game. There's some fun factor in it, that's why I give it 2 stars instead of 1. But I truly think it'll take a few years off your lifespan because of its high degree of frustration.


If more time,thought,energy put into it it would be the best   August 23, 2002
Nick (CT)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This must be one of the finest martial arts games I have yet to play. As I said in my title if more time, thought, and energy was put into this game it defintley would of been one of the best! The story is very solid and so is the fighting, allies, characters, etc. The story is- In the future demon offspring and there armys have taken over all of China except for one kingdom. Sun Soo(the main character)is the son to the leader of that one kindgon. Once the kingdom is taken over and his father killed sun soo is sent to a prison. There Mongolian rebels invade the prison and free him. Thats when the serious gameplay starts to take place. Sun Soo must defeat Zow Gon(the boss of the whole game) but to do that he has to kill Zow Gons 5 demon offspring(and go through hundreds of bad guys to do that!!)and get their 5 forbbiden blades.........that right there is probaly one of the best plots I have ever heard of in any game! As I said to beat the 5 demons you have to go through many, many bad guys and trust me after awhile they get very hard! And they seem to change in every level. speaking of levels the levels in this game range very much. One of the levels takes place in his dream! But dont worry cause through all these levels youll have many allies helping you ranging from- prisioners, rebels, soldiers, snipers, half demons, dragons, peacemakers, armys, etc. And while you are playing youll be kicking @ss with many different weopons like swords(many different kinds), sticks(many different kinds), wrenches, guns(many different kinds), etc, etc, etc, etc!! Now you say after all these positive things why did it get such low reviews? well as I said all the way in the beggining the makers didnt spend as much time on this game as needed. with N64/dreamcast type graphics and other things like that is why. So if you can look through that and see the excellent storyline, characters, fighting, bosses, weopons,etc then youll be opened up to a whole new exciting game!