Once you’ve beaten all the other warriors, yourself in a mirror match, a massive dragon called High Abbot, and then a skeleton that goes by the name of ‘Kull’ (yeah, I have no idea either), you are then sealed into the Book of Warriors and that’s basically it.
Ultimately, it was so impressive in just how crushingly terrible it all was that you just couldn’t look away.Īs one of nine different warriors, with additional secret characters available for selection if you should so choose to prolong the misery, Way of the Warrior’s plot was the sort of trite, face-clawing nonsense you might well expect from an early 90s, straight-to-video venture starring Lorenzo Lamas. Quite unlike The House That Johnny Cage Built however, Way of the Warrior was utterly hamstrung by charisma-less characters, objectively horrendous visuals and some of the very worst fighting gameplay this side of Kasumi Ninjaon the Atari Jaguar (honestly, look it up). Nah, long before Jak would nab his first Precursor Orb, or our man Nathan Drake would murder a small country in his pursuit of misplaced shinies, Naughty Dog would bring us Way of the Warrior for Panasonic’s ill-fated 3DO home console.Ī one-on-one brawler with digitized combatants complimented in turn by some crazy bad CG backgrounds that look like they were forcefully pulled from the rectum of 1989, Way of the Warrior seemed to be a bandwagon jumping attempt to capitalize on the ultraviolent shenanigans Midway had unleashed on the world years earlier with Mortal Kombat. For Naughty Dog, it wasn’t always leaping marsupials, discount Indiana Jones wisecracking heroes and post-apocalyptic, surrogate parenting.
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