Rise to Honor

Displays great imagination and attention to detail that is at once challenging, innovative, and fun. It accomplishes the task of re-creating the venerable beat-em-up genre with honor. [Mar 2004, p.62]

Rise To Honor has a pretty solid plot, good combat scheme, and impressive design. Unfortunately, one of its greatest flaws is its length.

A good example how top quality motion capture can be used within a game. Unfortunately the "revolutionary" control system hurts an otherwise solid game.

The fisticuffs get tired pretty fast (as will your right thumb) trying to beat up the bad guys, particularly the later stages that feature god-like AI opponents and extremely trying boss battles.

The fighting engine is certainly innovative, but lacks basic variety, the graphics border on garish and the soundtrack, in terms of voice acting, is only as good as the writing... which is to say, it’s not too good.

It’s short length (only 5 to 8 hours) and it’s repetitive and sometimes lacking gamplay really hurt it. There’s definitely some good fun to have, but it would be better done through a rental.

A more traditional control scheme and some serious gameplay polish could have done wondersfor this game. Instead, terrible control, lame AI and a few other rough edges hand Rise to Honor the Black Mask of shame.

gran juego para su tiempo fueron de los mejores que jugue en mi niñes muy recomendado

Bom jogo, com combate bem acima dos demais jogos de luta para a época.

Tells the story of childhood friends; Kit, Michelle and Chi, as they are caught amidst a mob hierarchy conspiracy. I got to say, I appreciate what this game tried, but it lacks many things, such as good characters, villains, a good story, gameplay depth and remarkable soundtrack. Despite its great, and energetic opening, and it's quite unique fighting mechanics, all of it grows tiring as you reach around 5 hours of gameplay or so. There are no upgrades, character customization or evolution at all. I do believe it has the appropriate duration for what it offers though, but lacks replayability and it doesn't really offer anything else except for a hard mode. That alone shouldn't be able to give you a lot of incentive if someday the thought of replaying it crosses your mind. Rise to Honor is a simple, yet fun and challenging beat 'em up / shoot 'em up that will most probably satisfy your hunger for action, however, you shouldn't expect anything deep or emotionally involving; or even sense, out of some of the action sequences. It's probably the cheesiest game you'll ever play. It is a FINE game nonetheless, that could've been a lot more.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

the game itself isn't bad what kills him is the crappy commands that can't be changed and you have to hit enemies using the analog stick