Deadliest Warrior: The Game

The world is still waiting for a title that can successfully merge history with the art of taking your opponent to pieces bit by bit. Deadliest Warrior just isn't it and when you consider that you could probably pick up a genuinely good scrapper in the bargain bins for the same price, it really isn't worth you blowing your dough on this.

Gather a few friends around the TV and Deadliest Warrior can provide about an hour of brainless laughs, but I don't see much appeal beyond that.

It's fun for all of 20 minutes, and then you'll either be ready to delete it forever or will have moved on to a better fighting game. Either way, don't bother. You'll have more fun watching the brilliant-but-awful TV show and then playing something - anything - else.

Guilty pleasure - with emphasis on guilty. [Oct 2010, p.111]

If you are a hardcore fighting game fan then Deadliest Warrior probably isn't for you. It feels very clunky at times and will be short lived as the unlockables can be obtained in just a few hours.

An outstanding game for the asking price.

Few characters, boring design and terrible animations make Deadliest Warrior a fighting game that's best left ignored.

Networking quirks aside, Deadliest Warrior offers loads of enjoyment for its $10 entry fee. It strips away the mountains of abstruse techniques which characterize most modern fighting games, and revives the accessible short-form action of realistic brawlers like Bushido Blade. It's incredibly fun, and addictive.

Thanks to a quite absurd damage system, you can find yourself downed in three or four hits, usually meted out with all the precision of a Friday night drunk in Basildon.

If you're looking for something simple and bloody (and I mean bloody) that doesn't take itself too seriously, Deadliest Warrior could be for you.

It's a clever idea, but the mechanics of this high-damage fighting game don't lead to a lot of interesting depth, making it all fall flat.

Deadliest Warriors is a nice beat 'em up. If you're looking for a traditional fighting game with combos, specials and super moves, simply look for something else. Deadliest Warriors looks like the old Bushido Blade from Square Enix, with fighters with few moves to use, and the possibility to win a fight with a single good strike. This game is cheap, but it offers a deep and complex fighting system, where players must use reflexes and patience to punish every single mistake from the opponent.

This brutal and unusual fighting game is both sharpened and dulled by its attempts to realistically portray fights to the death.

Overall Deadliest Warrior is a game that casual fighting game fans will enjoy simply because of the instant gratification.

Deadliest Warrior fails on two fronts: as a representation of the show it's based on and as a fighting game altogether.

The combat, plain and simple, feels hurried. That isn't excusable. Add in the fact that there are just so many great fighting games available on the Live Arcade right now, and there's no reason to even consider buying this game.

Deadliest Warriors lacks in depth but makes up for it by having some great graphics. The game fails to impress in many areas and for ten euros you should be able to find a better fighting game on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The gory limb removals and impalements-via-javelin are cheap fun that will treat anyone with the patience to tangle with some sluggish controls and simple combo moves.

Warrior isn't nearly as deep as other Arcade fighting games, but when buddies and beers are near, it's a decent choice. [Oct 2010, p.81]