"Fight" Update

We refer to Urban Reign affectionately as "Fight." This is of course because the game is a pure fighting experience, with very little else in it. I reviewed this game earlier, and would now like give you an update now that I've had more time with it.

I've now put in over 60 or 70 hours on multiplayer with Ben; we do both challenge mode and 2v2 fights where each of us has a computer partner. The 2v2 fights are absolutely vicious. He plays Alex and Jake, whom are both wrestlers with a lot of health. I play Shun Ying and Glen, so I have some agility and some power. Shun Ying takes a sledgehammer. >:) She can turn blue, for a period of time, which gives her automatic grapple-counters. Jake and Alex hate this, as their best moves are grabs. It even goes so far as to auto-counter counters that are grapples. Hehehe. But since Shun Ying's health is low, it doesn't take much for her to get knocked out.

We are still having a great time with this game. It just doesn't seem to get old or boring. It's very fast, exciting and brutal. After two weeks of Guitar Hero, it took a few games to warm up into it again.

When people at work see it, they say, "Didn't that get bad reviews?" They watch a bit, and decide they need to try it. Most people who have tried it like it.

After quite a bit of experience with the game, I stand by my initial assertion that the critics got it wrong. Unfortunately, it hasn't sold well in the US. I hope sales in Japan make up for this, so we can get a sequel. We refer to this unannounced hoped-for game as "More Fight." :)