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A Simple But Uninnovative Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Kakuto Chojin is a Microsoft game that tries to fill the many empty spots that X-Box has for fighting games. Is it successful in its attempt? Well, let me tell you the pros and cons of this game.

Let's start with the pros. The brightest star in this game is its really simple control scheme. You can pick up the game and start winning fights right away even if you are not used to playing fighting games. The graphic is decent - it's nowhere near Virtua Fighter 4 in its quality, but it is pretty good in its own right. The color pallette used here is darker to fit the storyline. You have two meters combined, one is your energy and the other one is another meter which when full allows you to execute super moves.

Now its time to talk about the cons. This game is definitely no Soul Calibur, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, or Dead or Alive in regards to graphics. The characters' moves are basically clones of Tekken and Virtua Fighter, especially the Capoera using character (like Christy Montiero and Eddy Gordo of Tekken) whose moves are almost exactly like those Tekken characters. Also, if you play a lot of fighting games, this game may be too easy for you, as many moves can be pulled off quite simply.

Right now the weakness of X-Box is in two categories: Fighting games and RPGs. This game is definitely not going to help the X-Box much in the fighting arena.

Definitely a rental if you're still interested in trying it out, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Uh....yeah...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you have played fighting games before then this game is going to waste even your rental dollars.

1. Unimpressed with the visuals of the game myself. You can't see them for the most part, because there is too much distance and too many items packed into the visuals.

2. The fighting scheme was pretty simple, attack high, attack low, and repeat -- vary the pattern in an ad-hoc way to keep the AI off balance and victory!!

3. Multiplayer Whoop-a** session -- A nice thought. Like a pass in a basketball game that looks innovative and shows creativity, but gets stolen so does the intent of the multiplayer mode. If you've played first person shooters like Halo (where you can melee some up close in personal) then you will have a time looking at the tiny characters go at it in a battle royal. It actually reminded me of someone adding a multiplayer deathmatch mode to Hunter: The Reckoning as the game is currently played.

Overall just unimpressed and thoroughly bored with the game.

Game development: (1) Need an ENGAGING story (2)Everything else - gameplay, visuals, etc. need to be in the context of the story -- period. Game developers are selling fantasies or illusions where the player wants to be the character for the time that he or she is playing the game.

A step back

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a total disappointment. Gameplay is relatively simple, moves are limited, and the characters don't seem to move right. In addition, the character's skin has a shiny "Barbie Doll" surface look to it (just doesn't look right). This game gets boring fast. I don't recommend it unless you can pick it up really cheap.

The Only Fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My wife and I must be the only fans of this game. I first played it as a demo in XBOX Magazine and I liked it pretty well. I had just got my XBOX and I'm not an expert when it comes to fighting games. Now my wife on the other hand loves these kind of games. Whenever we pass by an arcade, she wants to play the fighting games. And she does well because she picks up the gameplay pretty quickly. It's always amusing to see her beat the eighteen or nineteen-year-old who plays the game for hours and she just figured out how to play.
Anyway, I had her play the demo and she loved it. So we searched and found the game at a videogame store for a nice price(this was right after the recall notice). And we have been happily pleased ever since. We both play the game at least three times a week. The only way I can explain the critics of this is that these are people who have a LOT more experience with all kinds of fighting games. And maybe they didn't give this game as much of a chance as it needed.
Here are the the pros and cons:
PROS:
Great Graphics- They characters look amazing and they move like real people. The fighters don't look cartoony but computer animated. They must haved used real people as models because they move eeriely lifelike. The backgrounds are beautifully rendered and colorful.
Great Sound- I have a Surround Sound system that takes of advantage of the Dolby Digital 5.1 the game offers. Excellent!
Every character has their own theme and the voices and sound effets are well done.
Fun Gameplay- The moves are not too hard to learn and there are more than explained in the manual that comes with the game. There are two sets of moves in the game; Kakuto and Chojin. You can't access the Chojin moves without first completing the game with any character with the Kakuto moves.
Characters- There are plenty of characters all with different styles to master. And one secret character that is available when beating the game with any one of the characters.

CONS
The Manual- After buying the game I bought the strategy guide offered by Prima. The guide does a great job of explaining the game, the characters and ALL of the moves. Each character has at least FOURTY moves. The manual that comes with the game does a terrible job of explaing the game. At best, it is incomplete.
No Onscreen Move List- After playing DOA 3,MK:DA and Tao Feng, I've noticed you can access a move list in the game. It's too bad KC doesn't do this. It would be more convienent.

Finally I just wanted to say this game is a lot of fun.We have played Dead Or Alive 3, Mortal Combat:Deadly Alliance and Tao Feng: Fist Of The Lotus and they are fun but in our opinion Kakuto Chojin just has more STYLE. It's pretty unique and the characters don't seem to be like any I've seen in any other game. This may be the game's downfall as far as public opinion goes. I may buy DOA 3 and Tao Feng in the future but Kakuto Chojin is my third favorite XBOX game behind Max Payne and Halo. Microsoft did a wonderful job. I hope they don't give up on the fighting game market. I can tell they are trying to be outside the pack by making KAkuto chojin and Tao Feng.

Worst fighting game ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have the ultimate misfortune of having wasted money on this lousy game. If it were possible to give a rating of zero stars here I would. It is, in my opinion, the WORST fighting game EVER.

The characters look like of bunch of clowns, literally -- bad knock off crosses between pro-wrestlers and circus clowns. The skinning looks like plastic. The gameplay is ridiculously easy, not to mention boring and repetitive. The so-called fountains of sparks and such are one corner in one arena. The arenas are all simple squares with no interesting features whatsoever. The blood effects are simply too pathetic to go into. In short this is an elementary tech demo not a finished game and I am shocked that it was ever released in the state it's in.

THEY SHOULD PUT A SKULL AND CROSSBONES POISON SYMBOL ON THE PACKAGE BECAUSE YOU WILL DIE OF BOREDOM PLAYING IT!!!

DONT BELIEVE THE HATERS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, let me clear things up. I'm a fighter fan. I've played them all, and yes I consider myself an authority. When I'm not jamming out on Street Fighter, I'm playing some Neo Geo fighter that you've never heard of. Now let me say this: Kakuto is a fantastic, focused, and addictive 3D fighter. Alot of people like to say that this game is as deep as the kiddy pool, and that its all mash.. Thats total bull. If you want a masher, go play Tekken. This game has alot of neat features that reviewers always fail to mention. People should really play the ends and outs of a game before they start bashing and start throwing out 1 star ratings As you've probobly already read, the graphics are no joke. The characters are dark, creepy, and thick and are totally original. The same goes for the stages. If I had to complain about one thing, it would be that its not all that great 1 player. You have no fancy story modes, no unlockables, blah, blah, who cares! Your supposed to play fighting game with friends anyway! I could go on and on about how cool this game really is, but I wont.. Forget all the haters and their reviews, this is the hottest new fighter to come out in a long time. Snatch it up while you still can.

Laughable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have to be honest, I'm no expert on fighting games..but this game fails in basically every aspect. Horrible controls, forgettable characters,bad story mode, and probably the worst sound effects ever in a next-gen game. The ONLY reason to pick this game up is because its rare because it was only sold for about a month in stores, and might be a collectible someday, but if your looking for a fighting game on the Xbox run far from this and get Dead or Alive.

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