The Warriors (PSP)
- Publisher:
- Take-Two
- Developer:
- Rockstar Toronto
- Release Date:
- 13.02.2007
- Number of players:
- n/a
- Type:
- Action
- Reality Factor:
- Realistic
- Perspective:
- Third-Person
- Extra:
- Streets
- Blood Level:
- Medium Blood
- Age:
- Modern Times
We play The Warriors...
The Warrior's has become one of the toughest gangs in New York City, their strength comes from the fact that each and every member brings with them their own Unique Talents.
The Warriors are:
Cleon, the leader and foundation of the gang.
Swan, second in command and lives off action.
Cowboy, who is the voice of reason, and will go along with everyone else.
Snow, follows any order.
Ajax, the muscle of the group.
Vermin, can put up a very good fight and won't disappoint.
Cochise, always up for a good time.
Fox, the perfect scout.
Rembrandt, the writer of the group, also the youngest.
When bought together this gang, are able to overcome all situations in NYC gang warfare.
The game starts up at a meeting held by one of the biggest gangs in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, and its powerful leader, Cyrus. This meeting involves Cyrus posing a question to the hundreds of representatives from all the gangs in NYC, "Can you count, suckas?" Pointing out that altogether the gangs highly out-number the police in a 3 to 1 margin. After laying out his plans of a unified movement on the police as a single 60,000 member gang, Cyrus is shot and killed by a lone gunman. And the massive crowd scatters as the police come.
And then it goes a few months before these events, to when The Warriors was working on their street rep in their home turf on Coney Island. You start out as Rembrandt, a new recruit, who is effectively on a trial, but its basically just a little training mission for us to get to know the controls. During this first mission, you learn how to do pretty much everything, the different types of attacks you can do as well as mixing together attacks to form combo's. You also get to learn how to mug people and steal car radios.
From then on you'll get to meet the other gang members and learn about them as you progress through the game. You'll have the opportunity to play as other the other members, and not just Rembrandt, on various missions throughout the game. You get to learn of how each of The Warriors became to join the gang, and how Cleon and Vermin started it. You will also get to learn about the gang’s rivals on the streets, especially The Destroyers, Coney Islands other gang.
Other than rival gangs to worry about, you also have the police, who will go after you if they catch you in the act of anything illegal, so pretty much anything you do other than walking or running down the street. If the police manage to get a hold of you, and cuff you, then you get to just lie around and wait for a fellow Warrior to help you out (they only do that because they think you would do it for them, which is true you can, but its more fun to see them squirming about asking for help).
For the most part The Warriors is a Beat-em-Up, which means you'll mostly be brawling, mostly for the fun of it, or just because that’s what you have to do in the mission, either way you'll be doing a lot of it. But that said, there are various other things that you are able to do in the game, which include tagging up areas with your spray paint, mugging people for their money, whether it be for Spray Paint, Flash, or knives, or you can
steal car radios, which also get you a bit of cash, and you can also have your hand a breaking and entering. Although you do get some missions where that isn't what you'll be doing at all, you do get to go on some stealth missions deep in enemy territory, but then you may also be running away from the rival gang, or chasing down an idiot who has wronged you.
Theres also Rage mode, which is achieved by filling up your Rage meter by pulling off all sorts of combo's, and then simultaneously pressing L and R. Rage mode leaves you temporarily invincible with an increase in attack power and a change of attacks too. You may find this to be very handy during the game.
Whatever situation you find yourself in, you can bet that you can give the appropriate orders to your fellow AI gang members...by using commands called the 'Warchief Commands', and the AI will follow it accordingly, if not held up in a brawl with rivals or cops.
The game controls can be a tad hard at first, seeing as the analogue stick is quite sensitive and you may have to use it slightly to sneak which may seem difficult at first as I said. But after you've learnt the various controls you are able to use, it seems like a very good set-up, and works quite well indeed.
There is a couple other game modes you can also play, which is inside Rumble Mode. These include a 1-on-1 fight, where you get to pick what gang you’ll represent and the rival you’ll be brawling with. And a small gang war, which sees 3 members from two gangs pit up against each other, and again you get to choose the two gangs. Both of these can be 2 player, the small gang war, can be both Co-operative play, or you can pit yourself against your friend.
The gameplay is good, which is mostly what a game needs, good gameplay. Its good whereas it is easy enough to control your character and not forget what each button does. And the AI is quite intelligent on its own, being able to follow your every command, and come and help you if your in trouble, or cuffed or something, but also the rival AI is clever enough to go straight for you, unless their blocked by your followers, when your Spraying up over one of their own Tags especially.
Really the only downside of the game really is that the camera lets it down slightly. But everyone should know by now that you can't move the camera around on any game for the PSP so easily as on the PS2 anyway, seeing as it doesn't have the use of 2 analogue sticks, but saying that it only tends to get a bit annoying when you don't really have the time to move the camera on your own, and its facing slightly the wrong way or something so you can't really see much of what’s happening in front of you. Another downside is the lack of being able to save the game on your own terms, it use the autosave feature, which periodically saves your game for you, mostly at the start of a mission.
Even the graphics aren't that bad, and that’s always a bonus, its not pixelated or anything, it seems just right for the game.
So basically this game in itself is more than just a Beat-em-Up, with the Beat-em-Up style action, but with the other actions you can also perform. If you like the sound of the game, then you would no-doubt enjoy the game, infact I don't think anyone could not enjoy it, to be quite honest. The story is quite remarkable and appreciative. It makes you feel for the characters, as though they're your own friends.
Top Game Moment: In the game for me, was the first level (training level), just because of how you get to learn the fighting controls against a bunch of bums who expect to get alcohol afterwards!
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| The gangs going to war! | That’s gonna hurt in the morning |
The Warriors are:
Cleon, the leader and foundation of the gang.
Swan, second in command and lives off action.
Cowboy, who is the voice of reason, and will go along with everyone else.
Snow, follows any order.
Ajax, the muscle of the group.
Vermin, can put up a very good fight and won't disappoint.
Cochise, always up for a good time.
Fox, the perfect scout.
Rembrandt, the writer of the group, also the youngest.
When bought together this gang, are able to overcome all situations in NYC gang warfare.
The game starts up at a meeting held by one of the biggest gangs in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, and its powerful leader, Cyrus. This meeting involves Cyrus posing a question to the hundreds of representatives from all the gangs in NYC, "Can you count, suckas?" Pointing out that altogether the gangs highly out-number the police in a 3 to 1 margin. After laying out his plans of a unified movement on the police as a single 60,000 member gang, Cyrus is shot and killed by a lone gunman. And the massive crowd scatters as the police come.
And then it goes a few months before these events, to when The Warriors was working on their street rep in their home turf on Coney Island. You start out as Rembrandt, a new recruit, who is effectively on a trial, but its basically just a little training mission for us to get to know the controls. During this first mission, you learn how to do pretty much everything, the different types of attacks you can do as well as mixing together attacks to form combo's. You also get to learn how to mug people and steal car radios.
From then on you'll get to meet the other gang members and learn about them as you progress through the game. You'll have the opportunity to play as other the other members, and not just Rembrandt, on various missions throughout the game. You get to learn of how each of The Warriors became to join the gang, and how Cleon and Vermin started it. You will also get to learn about the gang’s rivals on the streets, especially The Destroyers, Coney Islands other gang.
Other than rival gangs to worry about, you also have the police, who will go after you if they catch you in the act of anything illegal, so pretty much anything you do other than walking or running down the street. If the police manage to get a hold of you, and cuff you, then you get to just lie around and wait for a fellow Warrior to help you out (they only do that because they think you would do it for them, which is true you can, but its more fun to see them squirming about asking for help).
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| Whoop-ass in a can | Maybe we went too far |
For the most part The Warriors is a Beat-em-Up, which means you'll mostly be brawling, mostly for the fun of it, or just because that’s what you have to do in the mission, either way you'll be doing a lot of it. But that said, there are various other things that you are able to do in the game, which include tagging up areas with your spray paint, mugging people for their money, whether it be for Spray Paint, Flash, or knives, or you can
steal car radios, which also get you a bit of cash, and you can also have your hand a breaking and entering. Although you do get some missions where that isn't what you'll be doing at all, you do get to go on some stealth missions deep in enemy territory, but then you may also be running away from the rival gang, or chasing down an idiot who has wronged you.
Theres also Rage mode, which is achieved by filling up your Rage meter by pulling off all sorts of combo's, and then simultaneously pressing L and R. Rage mode leaves you temporarily invincible with an increase in attack power and a change of attacks too. You may find this to be very handy during the game.
Whatever situation you find yourself in, you can bet that you can give the appropriate orders to your fellow AI gang members...by using commands called the 'Warchief Commands', and the AI will follow it accordingly, if not held up in a brawl with rivals or cops.
The game controls can be a tad hard at first, seeing as the analogue stick is quite sensitive and you may have to use it slightly to sneak which may seem difficult at first as I said. But after you've learnt the various controls you are able to use, it seems like a very good set-up, and works quite well indeed.
There is a couple other game modes you can also play, which is inside Rumble Mode. These include a 1-on-1 fight, where you get to pick what gang you’ll represent and the rival you’ll be brawling with. And a small gang war, which sees 3 members from two gangs pit up against each other, and again you get to choose the two gangs. Both of these can be 2 player, the small gang war, can be both Co-operative play, or you can pit yourself against your friend.
The gameplay is good, which is mostly what a game needs, good gameplay. Its good whereas it is easy enough to control your character and not forget what each button does. And the AI is quite intelligent on its own, being able to follow your every command, and come and help you if your in trouble, or cuffed or something, but also the rival AI is clever enough to go straight for you, unless their blocked by your followers, when your Spraying up over one of their own Tags especially.
Really the only downside of the game really is that the camera lets it down slightly. But everyone should know by now that you can't move the camera around on any game for the PSP so easily as on the PS2 anyway, seeing as it doesn't have the use of 2 analogue sticks, but saying that it only tends to get a bit annoying when you don't really have the time to move the camera on your own, and its facing slightly the wrong way or something so you can't really see much of what’s happening in front of you. Another downside is the lack of being able to save the game on your own terms, it use the autosave feature, which periodically saves your game for you, mostly at the start of a mission.
Even the graphics aren't that bad, and that’s always a bonus, its not pixelated or anything, it seems just right for the game.
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| A nice friendly game of baseball you say? | Look at them running for their lives |
So basically this game in itself is more than just a Beat-em-Up, with the Beat-em-Up style action, but with the other actions you can also perform. If you like the sound of the game, then you would no-doubt enjoy the game, infact I don't think anyone could not enjoy it, to be quite honest. The story is quite remarkable and appreciative. It makes you feel for the characters, as though they're your own friends.
Top Game Moment: In the game for me, was the first level (training level), just because of how you get to learn the fighting controls against a bunch of bums who expect to get alcohol afterwards!
