The Warriors (PS2)

Off the back of three increasingly gigantic hits from their Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar's next port of call was something of a surprise - a video-game adaptation of cult 1979 gangland film The Warriors. Fortunately, it turns out to be ideal fodder for open-world style gaming and barring some uncharacteristically rough presentation, ticks all the right boxes. As in the film, the game opens with the assassination of the messianic preacher Cyrus at a mass-meeting of around a thousand representatives from New York's various gangs, for which Coney Island's Warriors are later wrongly accused of perpetrating. Around three quarters of the game are played out ...  Read the complete review

I must say this has to be perhaps the best game i have played on. I have had no hesitation on replaying this game over and over again. There are a fair selection of levels, some made up from before where the film starts, showing how the warriors formed. There is also a wide variety of bonus 'Flashback missions'' , rumble mode allowing crazy mini games such as wheelchair racing and the ability to train your warriors in between missions. You can free roam around 'Coney', the home of the warriors, muggins, stealing and fighting as you go. You can also use a variety of jawbreaking moves, and you can use weapons such as knives. The buttons used can become repetivitve, but it ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago a friend of mine reccommended I watch a film showing on BBC1 late one saturday night. Although it was an old film dating back to 1979, it was one I had neither heard of nor seen before. That film was THE WARRIORS and was one of the best films I had ever seen. With it's tale of a New York gang falsely accused of destroying peace talks between all the other many gangs that roam the city and forced to travel the streets back to their own turf pursued by very angry and irate gang members hungry for their blood, the film was non-stop action from start to finish and I was amazed I had never seen it until now.... Imagine then my excitement when I ...  Read the complete review

The Warriors is a beat em up developed by Rockstar games for the Playstation 2. The story follows a gang called the Warriors, the game follows the plot of the move where all the gangs in New York meet up to discuss how to take over the city. Cyrus who is giving a speech gets shot and the Warriors are blamed for it and must escape! The game is told in flashbacks which fills you in on some of the details of the characters and is generally very interesting. The game is a beat em up style affair you control one of the Warriors, it doesn't matter who you are playing as each Warrior plays the same. You can bust out a good variety of combos using the ...  Read the complete review

Game Info Genre = Gang Action Developer = Rockstar Publisher = Rockstar Players = 1-2 players Age = 18+ --------------------------------------------------------------- STORY: The Warriors game based on the film in New York 1979, where one of the main gang leader calls all others gangs to get them all to become one big gang group. Then one of the gangs shoots him and says that the warriors did it. From this point every gang is New york is after you. But don't let this scary you off as the game starts a few months before the film and by this point you'll be ready to take them out. About 80% is set before the film which ...  Read the complete review