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Kabuki Warriors
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
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Based on 13 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Crave Entertainment
Developer: Lightweight
Genre(s): Fighting, Action
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: November 15, 2001
Summary
As a fight promoter for a troop of Kabuki warriors trying to travel from Edo to Kyoto, your actor/samurai must possess both strength and style. Along the way you will have to fight other Kabuki troops, garner the crowds favor to receive tips, and trade warriors with your defeated counterparts. You will need a very accomplished group of samurai when you arrive in Kyoto to defeat the city's star troop. [Crave]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
GamePro
Between the overly simplistic fighting system and weak enemy A.I., the game is way too easy to beat—you can successfully complete the Tournament mode by doing nothing but mashing the A button.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
A strangely bland fighting game. [Jan 2002]
Xbox Exclusive
Even though this isn't a fast paced game and you may find it to be a little more dragging than your usual fighting game, the different objectives that you complete in your fights are something that is fairly new and innovative.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
There's no shortage of better ways to spend your hard-earned gaming money, even when you're rummaging through the bargain bins.
Read Full Review >Electric Playground
If the lame fighting mechanics, bad music, boring environments (each city is represented by a bare wooden stage with a different backdrop curtain) and lack of gameplay modes weren't enough, the single biggest problem with Kabuki Warriors' single player game is that it is RIDICULOUSLY easy.
Read Full Review >TeamXbox
Any game that has you fighting against a guy with an umbrella while wearing more makeup than Tammy Faye Baker should never have been made.
Read Full Review >All Game Guide
Players remotely interested in the genre should boo these Kabuki Warriors off the stage and wait for a more promising title to appear.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
Mind-boggling travesty. [Jan 2002, p.231]
XenGamers
There are much better things to spend one’s money on. Like root canals.
Read Full Review >IGN
One of the most painful fighting games I've ever experienced...Fifty bucks is a whole lot of money to spend on a good laugh and a table coaster... or a plastic shooting pigeon... or a frisbee... you get the idea.
Read Full Review >Next Generation Magazine
Look, just buy DOA3 and forget this unhappy mess. [Jan 2002, p.42]
GameShark
I almost had a brain hernia trying to rationalize why there wasn't an Atari 2600 controller in my hand. Sure, we have the JUMP BUTTON and a frigging BLOCK BUTTON, but why is there only ONE ATTACK BUTTON?!
Read Full Review >Xbox Nation Magazine
A miserable experience. [Jan 2002, p.96]
GameSpot
One of the worst games to be released this year or any year, on the Xbox or any other platform. The fact that Microsoft's supposedly rigid approval process allowed this game to see the light of day is simply disgusting.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
A joke. The fighters you face early on are so easy to beat, I literally won a match just bashing the controller against my ass. [Dec 2001, p.109]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 4.6 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gabor A. gave it a 1:
I sat on the controller, looked up, and i won the game. Flawless Victory! Kabuki Warriors comes with a special controller adapter so that you can plug in you regular nintendo controller. Even then most of buttons are unecassary.
Shawn T. gave it a 9:
What the hell does everyone have against this game?? its amazing.
Tarik T. gave it a 10:
This is probably the best game that I have ever played, even better than Barney's first adventure which had in my opinion the best story ever, I have the best taste in stories and know a good one when I see it, this game has one of the best stories and gameplay, this game was also dificult too, why I had to press A almost three times throughout the battle, whoo I just don't have the stamina for that one. Go Kabuki Warriors.
Paul S. gave it a 10:
This game combines superior graphics with cutting-edge gameplay that is both challenging yet rewarding! Kabuki Warriors is a hit for the Christmas '01 season! I'll reccomend it over Dead of Alive 3 any day!
Eric B. gave it a 0:
Sucks.
Robert R. gave it a 0:
DOA 3...enough said.
