Jet Li's Rise to Honor

[Jet Johnson]

Just wondering if anyone has played the newly released Rise to Honor for Playstation 2. You get to play Jet Li in a Hong Kong movie inspired storyline.
The good thing: Jet Li's fighting style is accurately replicated (he did the motion capture himself), and you get to run around beating up bad guys using his style (Wushu/Pa Qua).
The bad thing: the fights are redundant and repetitive, and some levels are so difficult that I almost broke my controller out of frustration.
My recommendation: buy it only if you're a Jet Li fanatic; but it's definitely worth a rental.

[norther practitioner]

I heard it was pretty good, but a bit repetitive.. I was going to get it this weekend.

[Kristoffer]

I heard it sucked. i recomend shenmue

[Odin of Wei]

Well I heard he's supposed to put it all kinds of martial arts...but we all know...it's going to be mostly Wushu. :rolleyes:

[MasterKiller]

Actually, it's got a lot of Bagua in it. I watched some kids playing it at Wal-Mart. The fighting looked cool, but it wasn't very fluid.

[Stacey]

shen mue is cool...except that its simon....I like fighting the multiple opponenets...I like any game that I can use actual kung fu strategy to win.

[Kristoffer]

definatly

[mossman]

A friend and I rented it just about a week ago.

I thought it was ok. I enjoyed the fighting aspect of it but disliked the shooting guns in the game. My friend enjoyed the gun fights.

The fighting is rather redundant, but throughout the game new moves are seen. Yes, Jet Li's style was wushu. This game has him doing wushu and bagua it looks like.

Graphics- Excellent.

Story Line- eh. Exactly like a kungfu movie...

Game Length- Yay! I was very surprises at the length of the game. Yes some parts are hard, but it's beatable

Controls- Kinda Awkward at first, but once you get them down its ok. Having the action(punch kick) buttun being the right joystick of the ps2 control did have me a little worried. Well, If more games controls were set up that way, I think I'd be replacing controllers more often than I usually do (never have).

Conclusion:

It's a rental. I would not recommend buying it unless you are a Jet Li fanatic. Would I rent it again? Probably not. Would I want to play it again in the future? Probably not.

[Odin of Wei]

ha ha ha...

Maybe they'll try again?

[CaptinPickAxe]

Has anyone played manhunt? Its the most gory game I've ever played. You can smash heads with baseball bats, put a fire axe between someones eyes, smash faces with hammers, Blow a hole in someones face w/ a shotgun, and so much more. Not to mention they drop the F-Bomb left and right.

[Kristoffer]

I've heard of it but I havn't played it
dont think it's out here yet

[CaptinPickAxe]

get it...

You MUST get it...

the director says so..."now kill those ****ers, before I lose my patience."

[Banjos_dad]

I like it. I bought one used for $30.
Something that's different & cool about JLRTH is that it's not "flat" like one guy on the left, the other guy coming from the right all two dimensional. You could be surrounded by 8 guys & smack any one of them from that one spot!
Plus, Jet Li's cool.

[Kristoffer]

Havn't seen Manhunt anywhere, soon as I see it I'll give it a try though.

[Shaolinlueb]

you can rock out in the fist of legend costume or the wong fie hung costume :cool:

[Kristoffer]

**** that if u havn't played Shenmue u can't call yourself a martial artist

[Shaolinlueb]

I bought rise to honor. i liek it. weird to control sometimes too difficult. im stuck ont he gun battle in the alley, after you beat the drunken dude. he was hard to defeat. a worthy opponent of my crappy gaming skills.

[Odin of Wei]

Originally posted by CaptinPickAxe
Has anyone played manhunt? Its the most gory game I've ever played. You can smash heads with baseball bats, put a fire axe between someones eyes, smash faces with hammers, Blow a hole in someones face w/ a shotgun, and so much more. Not to mention they drop the F-Bomb left and right.
When I just turned 17 I was like...**** I can buy that now if I wanted to. :D :D


Originally posted by Shaolinlueb
you can rock out in the fist of legend costume or the wong fie hung costume :cool:
Seriously?

That's kickass.

But I bet you have to earn it.

But still...

Kickass. :cool:


Originally posted by Kristoffer


**** that if u havn't played Shenmue u can't call yourself a martial artist


Dude, just playing a game doesn't make you a martial artist.

If you think strongly on that your going to get your ass kicked, and fast. ;)