![]() ![]() Kung Fury: Street Rage is a decent game adaptation of an incredible film. I’m not sure why but there’s something weirdly satisfying about beating up a giant robot crab. Ridiculousness is part of what made the movie great and it’s nice to see the game is approached with the same sense of levity. Kung Fury and company travel to many strange places to take on the Nazis and their kung fu robots which kind of felt like a nod to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time when the player might wonder why Shredder sent his foot soldiers back in time to the prehistoric era. Kung Fury: Street Rage isn’t the greatest beat ’em up ever conceived, but there’s fun to be had, especially for fans of the film. This expansion seems more like what people were expecting from a Kung Fury game adaptation, and while both play styles have their merits, this is the one that was personally more fun. A Day at the Beach plays more like a traditional beat ’em up. This expansion introduces David Hasselhoff as a playable character, and he’s going to make the Nazis learn the hard way you don’t hassle the Hoff9000. This can be fun for a while trying to rack up the highest score while knocking out as many Nazis as possible, but doesn’t offer a ton of gameplay variety.Īn expansion called A Day at the Beach was released later that offers a new gameplay style. There’s a score multiplier for consecutive hits that gets reset after the player misses, so it does cater to the ’80s arcade mentality of chasing after the high score. Playing as either Kung Fury, Triceracop, Barbariana or Hackerman pits the players against wave after wave of Nazis and their experimental kung fu robots. There isn’t a whole lot to the gameplay, but it’s fun in small dose and challenging. Each attack launches Kung Fury or whichever character the player is controlling across the screen and performs an attack, which the attack animation seems to be completely randomized. One button attacks right, another attacks left. The player cannot walk around in a traditional manner, instead the only means of conveyance of attacking. In actuality Kung Fury: Street Rage feels more like a rhythm game than traditional beat ’em up. A simple look at screenshots would even suggest that is the direction the developers went. But as has been stated in the past, most video games based on movies are terrible, and while Kung Fury: Street Rage isn’t the worst film to video game translation that has ever happened, it probably isn’t the adaptation fans were hoping for.īased on the film with the Street Rage as a subtitle, the expected choice would be a beat ’em up in the aforementioned style. This would be perfect for an ’80s style beat ’em up arcade game like Double Dragon or Streets of Rage. ![]() Robots, Vikings, Nazis, Dinosaurs and Kung Fu are ingredients that are begging for Kung Fury to be adapted into a video game. But this is fine since this gives context to throw in Vikings and dinosaurs into the showdown against the Nazi regime. Unfortunately, using 1980’s computer hacking techniques do awry and Kung Fury ends up going too far back in time. Expressing an opinion on the internet these days is bound to start a fight, but we can all agree that Hitler sucks and traveling back in time to end the Third Reich is a good idea. Kung Führer, ends up causing trouble in Florida so Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to kill Hitler. During a deadly confrontation with a ninja in a back alley, Kung Fury’s partner is sliced in half, but a convenient series of unfortunate events unlock his true Kung Fu powers, signifying he is the chosen one. Kung Fury is the name of the protagonist, a detective with the Miami-Dade Police Department. People who watch Kung Fury tend to have two different reactions: this is the stupidest thing they’ve ever seen or it’s the greatest film ever made where each part is better than the last. It was released on YouTube and other streaming platforms where it can still be viewed for free. It has a relatively modest budget as far as movies go which was funded through Kickstarter support and is an homage and parody of martial arts movies and ’80s cop films. Kung Fury is a 2015 film that runs approximately 30 minutes in length. ![]() We even have a beige computer with a floppy disk drive. ![]() All the classic systems are down there collecting dust, so in an effort to improve the cleanliness of our work space, we dust off these old consoles every so often and put an old game through its paces, just to make sure everything stays in working order. The basement at the Hardcore Gamer office has a section known as the Crust Room, with an old grey couch and a big old CRT TV. Member the games you used to play? We member. ![]()
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