Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style (1999 Video Game) User Reviews

A game I lived for.

[blancokillah · 8/10 · 21 July 2006]

I know that there are people outside considering this game to be dumb, boring and hard to play but I had a lot of really good time with it. It was about 3 or 4 years ago when me and my friends used to play this all day long on the good old' PS. Of course we knew other fighting games like Tekken or MK or whatever but this game really pleased us compared to the others which we also liked but didn't spend that much time on. The story is like .. You're one member of the Wu-tang Clan. You can chose the artist you like best or just decide from the weapon the different characters carry ( I remember that Method Man had a giant hammer and I think 'Rza had two swords. Odb was the master of drunken boxing with the special ability to drink from his bottle causing something to happen I don't remember). When you have chosen you begin your proud journey against the evil in a temple with 36 chambers in which each there's a task ( one or more opponents) waiting for you. Unfortunately I didn't finish the game but that's not really important since it is definitely not the story mode that made the game to what it is. Like every other fighting gameit is the multi player mode which defines such a game. normally, when I play with my friends the console is running along with the stereo. With Shaolin style that was different. the music underlying the fights was just great. I think there's also a soundtrack out with all the deep songs performed by..guess who. I don't believe, that it were new songs but at least it were some rather unknown or less known songs. No C.R.E.A.M or Method Man or so. And to that music you was now able to beat the hell out your friends and to nod slowly with the beat. And by the way. Since it is not hard to learn this is one of the games you don't have to be sober for. if you want to organize a calm evening with some of your friends: Buy some beer, roll some blunts and get the PS out of the basement where it has spend the last years collecting dust. Then buy the game (or download it, rent it, lend it whatever) I really hope that one day someone will come up with the idea to bring this game out for PS 2 or maybe 3/Xbox/360. I'd be the first to buy it.

This is a no go for a game featuring hip-hop artists.

[DeadFromForum · 1 September 2005]

Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style is what I considered the worst and an extremely pitiful developed games ever. First of all, this game was originally a game formerly known as Thrill Kill. That game could never get released for PlayStation since it was so intensely violent. The developers then would develop this game using the now deceased Thrill Kill engine and adding the hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clans into the game. The illustrations were so terrible that I would prefer something better than that. The game play is so horrible that it is just impossible to defeat a difficult opponent. The voice acting is definitely pitiful since there wasn't much of a story to this game and that the Wu-Tang Clans rarely had any voice roles in the cut-scenes and game play. If you really want to play a game featuring hip-hop artists, try 25 to Life from Eidos, Crime Life: Gang Wars or the hip-hop karaoke like game called Get on the Mic from Eidos. There are definitely lots of games out there that features hip-hop artists for their voice performance or songs. This game is definitely not for someone who is a true hardcore hip-hop music fan.