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Kung Fu Rider Reviews

Game Revolution

10/2010

Kung Fu Rider

Even before the days of the original Katamari Damacy and the underground hit Incredible Crisis, America has had an almost cult-like fascination with those odd, quirky Japanese-made games that seem to bend our concepts of what a game should be and turn genres on their head. Kung-Fu Rider tries to carry on this fine tradition onto a new generation of consoles with a Playstation Move twist, but ultimately, sadly fails in recapturing that old-school arcade goodness it so blatantly strives for. Conceptually, you'd think this would be a home run. You play as a young man or alternatively, and much more likely, a pretty young Japanese girl who, as the very loose and hardly-there-at-all plot explains, have been caught in the middle of some mobster hijinks involving their new job. And now their only means of escape is to travel downhill while riding on various wheeled objects, such as a office chair, vacuum cleaner, or baby walker. As you travel down the road, you avoid objects and road hazards and use some rudimentary chair-style kung-fu to defeat yakuza that get in your way. Sounds like a blast doesn't it? And it is... for the first 10 minutes. After that, it's just mostly the same thing over and over again.

GameInformer

09/2010

3.5/10

Kung Fu Rider

Whenever a gaming company launches new technology, some titles will fail to take advantage of the new hardware. To put Kung Fu Rider in this category would be exceedingly generous. This is a game about riding office chairs, and through some reverse miracle, the developers actually managed to make the game stupider than it sounds. When I first started the game up, I actually thought Kung Fu Rider might offer greater character depth than the racial stereotypes that compilation games like Sports Champions and Racquet Sports have offered to Move owners. Man, was I wrong. The entirety of Kung Fu Rider's "story" unfolds on the menu screen. A private detective named Toby and his vapid assistant Karin are being chased by the Yakuza for unknown reasons (Karin even laughs at Toby when he asks why the mob is after them, as if desiring any sort of back story is absurd). To ditch the criminals, the pair decides to split up and ride office chairs down the streets of Megalopolis to a van that will drive them to safety. That's it. The end. The gameplay consists of short races down six city streets, during which you avoid (or crash into) objects, cars, and civilians.

GameSpot

09/2010

4.0/10

Kung Fu Rider Review

The mafia has been known to do seedy things to exert control over people, but even it would be ashamed of the line it crosses in Kung Fu Rider. Sharply dressed assailants leap from behind parked cars, jump down from scaffolding, and emerge from shadowy tunnels to physically attack the protagonists: an ordinary man and woman riding atop everyday office chairs. Your goal is to make it down the streets of this dangerous city while riding whatever wheeled contraption is handy, and the ridiculous premise does lead to a number of funny situations. But once you get used to the sight of a man being kicked in the face and turning into a limp rag doll, any bit of fun is quickly drained from this exhausting racing game. The Move controller is required to play, but the convoluted controls don't always respond. The preponderance of wipeouts is even more troubling, either from cheap enemies or unpredictable physics. Kung Fu Rider is a lackluster addition to Sony's Move launch lineup, neither showing the potential of the new peripheral nor providing an enjoyable experience on its own terms. The setup is explained during the title screen but never fleshed out beyond the flimsy premise.

VideoGamer

09/2010

3.0/10

Kung Fu Rider Review

I like funny as much as the next guy â?? more, even â?? so Sony is probably aiming Kung Fu Rider at hilarious, joy loving jokesters such as myself. I imagine Sony Japan's design brief was to make a game that was wacky and fun. It certainly is wacky.The idea is to guide your character â?? the white-collar office worker Tobin, or his scantily-clad assistant Karin â?? down various urban Japanese hills on the back of an inappropriate, wheel-bearing vehicle: an office chair, stool (seat, not faeces), child's toy and vacuum cleaner are a few of the examples on offer. How delightfully bizarre! On the way you'll encounter obstacles, such as cars, dudes walking across the roads with ladders, and the mafia. You've really annoyed the latter for some reason, but it doesn't matter: just thank the heavens they're chasing you down the hilly wonderlands of industrial Japan and not across the flatlands of East Anglia.To ride your makeshift escape vehicle you use the Move controller, and that's when the game starts to fall apart. Basic speed is gained by gently wiggling up and down, but move too aggressively and you'll end up braking or jumping into the air â?? these commands are idiotically mapped to the extremities of the waggle.

1UP

09/2010

Kung Fu Rider Review

For a game where you ride office chairs and other wheeled objects down city streets,Kung Fu Rider is something that most people expect to have explained to them. However, it doesn't need an explanation, and the game knows this: the title screen shows you all you need to know: private detective Toby and his bubbly (in more ways than one) secretary Karin hide behind their doorway as a group of mafia goons wait outside for them. The two argue with each other for a few minutes, worrying about their fate, but once you start the game, they're already on the run when they find an aforementioned wheeled object in the street that they use for a makeshift getaway. No muss, no fuss. Well, there is some fuss, as you have to complete some tutorial missions before you finally hit the mean streets of Hong Kong to escape the bad guys, but beyond that, the game is fairly to-the-point. Basically, you accelerate by flicking the Move controller downward to sort of "pump" the vehicle forward, which makes sense. But to really make a smooth path to the goal, you'll have to perform jumps, dashes, dodges, and kicks to clear out obstacles, including the gangsters coming for you.

IGN

09/2010

3.5/10

Kung Fu Rider Review

Before I begin my review of Kung Fu Rider, I should explain that I'm actually very excited about the PlayStation Move technology and I'm eager to see developers take advantage of the hardware. I think there's potential in Sony's latest motion-enabled device, and while I don't think it's going to dominate the PlayStation landscape, I do think there will be a handful of awesome Move games that I wouldn't want to play in any other way. I say these things because my experience with the PlayStation Move launch title Kung Fu Rider have been abysmal, and it's not because I dislike the PlayStation Move. It's because Kung Fu Rider is incredibly frustrating, repetitive and it's one of the most unresponsive downhill racers I've played. Honestly, most of this game is a total disaster. This happens more often than not. The premise of Kung Fu Rider is absurd and actually kind of funny: you play as Toby and his assistant Karin in an attempt to escape the mafia (or perhaps more accurately, the Triad) by racing down the streets of urban China in an office chair. The only story I could glean from this game is that the mafia is after Toby and Karin for a job they've done, as Toby is some sort of detective.

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Kung Fu Rider (sony Playstation 3, 2010) New/sealed	$9.75	See it
Kung Fu Rider	$12.8	See it
Kung Fu Rider Playstation 3 Ps3 Move Game	$15.95	See it
Sony 98270 Kung Fu Rider - Move	$19.99	See it
Kung Fu Rider (PlayStation Move)	$19.99	See it
Kung Fu Rider - PS Move Only - PlayStation 3	$21.96	See it
Kung Fu Rider - Move	$43.69	See it

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