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Jet Li: Fall of Honor

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful because it was way to short and easy. The best thing in the game is the graphics and you get to play the karate master, Jet Li. Fighting is really boring because its the same thing over and over again, punch,kick punch,kick punch,kick. It was a complete waste of time and if your going to make a karate game keep the guns out of it 'cause then you can just shoot people the whole game. The storyline was bad too. From reading this review i think everyone will agree with me that this game is a downgrade to Jet Li's stardom.

WOW THIS GAME CAN KISS MY A**

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wow. When I walked into the video store, I was thrilled to find that Jet Li Rise to Honor was available. I get home and look through the instruction booklet, and am already confused by the craptacular controls. The graphics in this game are not in any way good. They are most definently BELOW average. The fighting system is okay, and I like the blocking mechanics, but everything else suck a**. The guns............ALL YOU GET ARE HANGUNS! And, you can't run out of ammo! The aiming system is crap. Plus all the enemies look like here about to audition for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. You know all those clips you saw on commercials, that made you say" hey, this game looks kinda cool"...........those were all cutscenes! This game sucks. It was a total waste of my time, plus, this game is too hard anyway. Bottom line, half of the time I was playing I wanted to burn the game and throw my controller at my PS2. This game sucks. If you buy this, you're probably one of those kids who takes the short bus to school. THIS GAME SUCKS!

Rise to bogus

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks. Graphics, gameplay, sound, etc. The only good thing is that your thumb gets excersice.

ONLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. -Smokey
Peace out.

Poor gameplay, but does capture Jet Li's moves well.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Any enjoyment you might derive from this game is from playing as Jet Li in an old-school fight setting. When the novelty of that wears off, what you have left is an incredibly repetitive game with a godawful camera and an ill-advised control scheme.

Yes, bonus marks are in order for using Cantonese in Hong Kong with subtitles. (As a native Hong Kong person I can say the dialogue is less stilted than usual, though still flawed) Though I might add that international espionage games like Syphon Filter has been doing that for years. The settings are authentic enough, with the battles in the Hong Kong settings being especially evocative of kung fu films.

But is it worth the very problematic gameplay? Just barely. If you've seen/played the demo already, you'll know that the entire fight system consists of slapping the right analog stick. While the array of moves you can unleash is impressive, motion-captured well from Li's own silhouette, this system is very ill conceived from a fighting-game perspective. Worse still, the camera is so restless that you could be in the middle of a combo against an enemy, and then the perspective shifts so that you're suddenly hitting at air and the enemy's to the side. So many game designers have misled notions about being filmmakers, not realizing that the best perspective for gaming is a fixed perspective. This problem came to a head during the ludicrous "escape from capture" stage where the camera actually cuts you off, preventing you from seeing what's behind you, even though there are guards sweeping flashlights that way that you're supposed to avoid! This is simply a moronic use of the camera.

Aside from this, the fighting gets tired awfully quickly, especially since the designers committed the ol' "this level never ends" sin. This game alleviates this problem by having lots of checkpoints where you can continue the game, but during some of the "one against 14" stages, the endless brawling still gets tired. And whose idea was it to have enemies pull off 18-hit combos, where if you get hit the first time, you get to watch your character get pummelled for 10 seconds straight?

I actually find the gunfight segments of this game more fun than the endless, endless hand-to-hand stages. This is where the dual analog sticks truly shine, allowing you to smoothly run from spot to spot forwards and backwards while your hands can aim independently and a top button allows you to do Time Crisis-style ducking. There's even a crazy level where you fight off about 100 enemies with two nailguns!

This game would probably remain tempting to Jet Li fans because of the role-playing aspect of it. And I wouldn't blame them -- this was my reason for buying this game, and there are a few levels that I truly enjoyed. The overall game, however, is really not that great, and I would recommend only playing it in small doses. It will get tired mightily quickly if you sit with it for more than an hour.

Hard not worth it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game hearing it was but is awful. the controls r all with the analog and r and l buttons which is very stupid in hand 2 hand fighting, while gun fighting and sword fighting fun the controlls r still hard and the enemies is very and theres a diffculty level except u have to unlock on my opininon definately rent this game and dont buy it cause u get tired of it pretty soon

easy at first, hard later

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun the first time you play. At first, it's very easy. Then, the next thing you know, it's tricky. Some moves are hard to do and it doesn't have a tutorial or a practice mode to learn how to do moves or anything. I found that a little disappointing. One part was really hard and I could just not beat it and I got frustrated (A LOT). This game is for older kids and I am not going to play it for a LONG TIME seeing I can't get my money back or atleast enough to get something else.

As bad as his films!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Jet Li has one good film, "Fist of Legend". Sadly, this game ignored that film and instead gave us the jet li that noone seems to be able to direct properly. li is a brilliant martial artist and is wasted due to poor direction. "Rise to Honor" is poorly directed. the controls are bizarrely set up and the dreadful "stealth" levels as well as the even worse shooting levels kill this game. the martial arts parts are excellent but very repetitive. i think that jet li should not have creative input on his projects. he should have the guys who did "ratchet and clank" do his next game!

Boaring Without Much Control

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From the first appearance this game looks promising but fails to deliver as control of the character is weak. The game takes on the look of Matrix type effects and does in fact deliver that graphically. However Jet handles all of his moves on his own, all you do is tap the joystick to prompt his attack and movement. Not much fun from my perspective simply because there isn't anything really challenging here to learn. The strategy and game play are simple... hit and avoid being hit. That's it!?

my thoughts on RTH

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

controls are horrible. they need to rethink the controls for attacking. graphics are great and the story is good. also, it is very difficult, not to mention fustrating, when trying to attack multiple enemies when they are all attacking at once. once you fall, they keep attacking and you don't have a chance to get up until half your life is gone. personally, it would be a good game to rent...not buy. i regret spending my money on buying it.

Lacks Excitement

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

"Jet Li: Rise to Honor" is a third person brawling and shooting game. In the game, the player takes the role of Jet Li - or rather, a character virtually portrayed by him.

The story is a fairly simple, revolving around Chinese gangs and criminal elements. Jet Li - or the player - is Kit Yun, a bodyguard responsible for protecting Boss Chiang, who is attempting to leave his life of crime behind. Most of the story involves beating up other gang members who are trying to kill Chiang or, later, his daughter, and the story serves mostly as an excuse for this violence.

The gameplay is simple compared to many other brawler games: aside from guarding and area-specific actions, fighting occurs by pushing ("slapping", in the game's words) the right control stick in the direction that you want to attack. This allows for multidirectional attacking in the game's many multi-opponent fights. This simplifies combat almost to the point where it's not fun anymore; the only other action is "adrenaline attacks", which is basically slow motion or bullet time. Gun battles work roughly the same way, except the control stick is used to target and the R2 button is used to shoot. Apart from some neat interactive features, like kicking people into equipment or onto hot stoves, there isn't a lot of gameplay variety.

The graphics are decent, but not good. Faces are reasonably good, but also tend to be blocky. The textures range from mediocre to poor, with too much blur and not enough detail. The action, despite some neat slow-motion moments, is generally lackluster as well. The sound is for the most part forgettable and consists mainly of yelling in Chinese.

"Mediocre" describes this game fairly well. At most parts, it simply drags as you are forced to fight yet another wave of hooded thugs, and it lacks excitement and panache.

4/10.

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