PSP beat em up Tagged Stories

The Warriors, which was offered on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox based on the 1979 cult classic film of Walter Hill proved well worth the effort. Not just a bland remake of the film, the game added in a lot of spice and back story to the situations and characters.

The same ‘Warriors’ has made its way to the PlayStation Portable. This beat em’ up game looks good on the handheld. Storyline and features have been retained from the original and thankfully; there is no extra content addition in a bid to cram in as much as possible.

The game is all about the trials and situations faced by one of the gangs going around in New York, the Warriors. The Warriors PSP version starts just as in the movie where the gang is on their way to meet the enigmatic leader of Gramercy Riffs Cyrus. A grand plan for a unified gang movement is laid down by Cyrus. Just as it looks like he is going to convince everyone, he is shot by a gunman and the crowd scatters with the police on their heels. After this point, the game shifts basically away from the movie.

The well written storyline and script with blunt and curse filled dialogs are quite effective adding to the atmosphere. Most of the game is the beat ‘em up type and as a player you will be indulging in a lot of brawling. Fights are similar with a lot of ground attacks and jumping. Fighting engine is simple but environments are unpredictable adding to the fun and excitement. You will find a host of fighters appearing on the screen all of a sudden making the game very fast paced and hectic.

Instead of just sending groups of bad guys at you to keep fighting, Warriors makes it more interesting by giving players plenty of interesting tasks to break the action. Another interesting feature in this game is the checkpoint save system which is good and eliminates the need to replay long sequences. Level designs are attractive and exciting and sequences are well set offering hours of fun and thrill on your favourite PSP.

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Side scrollers had their moments of triumph in the gaming industry, and they had their share of great games, but people thought it was time to move on, with all the 2.5D and 3D games available for handheld consoles. Well, the Japanese game publisher Altus proved everyone wrong by bringing back side- scrolling to the PSP with Hammerin’ Hero. This game is super addictive and will keep you hooked to the console for quite some time.

You play as Genzo Tamura, a young carpenter, who sets out to stop the evil carpenter practices of the Kuromoku-gumi. You have various levels to complete, each complete with its own boss. Stages don’t go on for very long, but they sure are fun, and are filled with fun collectibles. It also contains that same wacky Japanese animation found in other Atlus games like Bomberman Land PSP. The Gameplay is Hammerin Hero is extremely easy to grasp and get used to. There are five basic moves, Jump, crouch, light attack, special attack and heavy attack.

Your job is to kill every enemy in the path till you reach the boss of the level. You’ll start off with a giant hammer to knock down enemies, but as the game progresses, you’ll get new jobs, and with new jobs come new weapons and new special attacks. For instance, if you take up a DJ job, you can bonk enemies with a boombox.

You visit Kanna, a childhood friend, before each level, to get a bento lunch. Each bento lunch gives you the ability to change to a different job within a single stage. You can ask for random bentos to get multipliers, power-ups and boosters among other things.

Stages are also filled with civilians who have their own share of worries. You can choose an appropriate job to do away with civilian worries to make them happy and they will send thank-you notes in return.

The game also features multiplayer, where players play side by side over a wireless network to finish stages.

There are many ways to get extra points, but that’s left for you to discover. The April 7th North America release date will be much awaited for, as this promising title should bring back memories of old, but great side scrollers such as double dragon.

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Atlus Inc. has announced that it has gotten the publishing rights for its new game title called Hammerin’ Hero in North America. It’s basically an arcade-style, old school side-scrolling beat ‘em up game that is going to hit the PSP soon. The game brings you Gen, the popular game character that loves justice and is a carpenter by profession. Your role in the game is to help him fight against Hyosuke Kuromoku and his evil construction company as they are planning to throw out Gen’s neighbors from their homes.

The main attraction of this game is that it breaks boredom. Gen will take up several jobs during the adventure. You will see him acting as a Baseball player (but without playing baseball in depth like in the Bigs game) in one round and in another round he will become a DJ . The keeps the player excited during the game play because they have to master a new type of skills every time. The game is lengthy enough to keep you engaged. The whole adventure is spread across 12 different stages with each stage throwing a unique and tougher challenge in front of Gen. But if you use his hammer in the right way then the Hyosuke Kuromoku and his evil construction company is bound to get destroyed.

The Hamemrin’ Hammer will offer you a comic type adventure and has been rated as E10+, i.e. it can be played by every child whose age is 10 years or above. The game voices are available in English as well as in Japanese. As you take on different jobs including Baseball player, driver, chef, DJ etc. you will get new costumes and some enhanced attacking powers. Another attraction of the game is it supports Ad-Hoc multiplayer game play. Two players can play together to compete for the best score on each level. As you precede trough different levels you will also get chance to make allies in battle, collect lots of items and unlock two more playable characters.

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