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Make it stop!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is so bad it makes Shaquille's rap career look like it was that of Tupac's by comparison. I remember when Big Frank's dad bought this for him for his birthday, it was one of his "big" presents, needless to say, Big Frank was excited at first glance (hey, back in segas hay-day this game had a LOT of hype) well, we pop that cartridge in and played for 1 hour and to put it lightly, it was Big Franks birthday, and he'll cry if he wants too (he actually cried for 6 hours because the game was so bad and his birthday was ruined) his dad had been drinking whiskey throughout the night and when Big Frank went crying to his dad about how bad the game was, he was beaten badly with one of those spaulding air pumps that you use for your sporting ball needs, well, I couldn't stand to watch the drunken beating, so I fleed the scene shortly after, and needless to say that was the last time I saw Big Frank's dad, moral of the story, don't play this game.

Strangely overlooked for a Genesis game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Some time ago Shaq-Fu was voted to be one of the ten worst games of all time in Electronic Gaming Monthly, but, although I find EGM to be a highly accurate and respectable publication, I chose to disagree with them on this issue. In all honesty, I don't see any heinous problems with this game - besides featuring Shaq as a "martial arts superhero" (that would be enough to turn away most of the would-be players). But, surprisingly, the game features a good-sized cast of somewhat original characters ( one being a Freddy Kruger type creature), well-detailed backgrounds, captuvating ( for some) music, and a not-too overbalanced gameplay. However, the game is almost pathetically shallow - there are no combo systems, each character only has a handful of moves, and you can win the game by simply using a jumping high kick the entirety of the time.

This game is the low end of mediocrity that will appeal to collectors rather than players, but it doest have a small fun factor for party-size tournaments.

shaq-fu is mediocre fighting game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I used to have a sega genesis and one of the first games i got was shaq-fu. Nothing really special here. you cant do any combos or fatalities or anything, but the fighters have some good moves. not exactly a dependable fighting game, you might get tired of it soon, but if you want just a simple fighting game, you might consider this. mediocre game.

I would give it a zero but there isn't one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There are evil forces in America that will try to sell you anything, and these evil forces understand the public's fascination with sports heroes and celebrities, and so take a sports hero and a video game and shouldn't that be a winning combination? Listen: this game is simply retarded. A basketball player does not a martial artist make. At first glance you might think this game is pretty cool; after all, the graphics are very well done and the animation is very fluid. But when you realize that you have a total of three moves--punch, kick, jump--and that you can defeat any evil kung fu master just by endlessly jump kicking across the screen and bouncing like a pogo stick, you realize this is not going to be a very deep fighting game. But, yeah, the graphics are pretty good so this game doesn't suck as bad as it possibly could. And then you remember that it's about a basketball hero who just happens to be a world-class martial artist, and that that martial artist is none other than Shaquille O'Neil. And you realize that you have too much free time on your hands, and that maybe you're playing this cart because you're really desperate to be entertained, and then you realize you were having more fun with Bimini Run, which you go back to. OK, to be fair, this game isn't nearly as bad as Bimini Run but it's still pretty ridiculous. Recommended only for those who enjoy a nice steaming pile of crap.

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