Lets Remember...Way of the Warrior

Those guys at Naughty Dog (personally, my most despised developer) sure had a lot of drinking buddies. Because this fighting game, featuring MK-style digitized graphics, is chock-full of 'em.

In fact, I sometimes wonder if their non-comupter-savy drinking buddies programmed Way of the Warrior instead of the (so-called) Naughty Dog professionals.

The characers look stupid (one has a major beer gut, which is kinda cool), even the prerndered final boss.

The control is terrible- even after doing the 3D0 gamepad mod.

The music is OK- but a waste of White Zombie talent. The sound FX is stupid.

The fatalities make those in MK Advance look good.


I still play this pile of crap. Dunno why. Perhaps it is a teeny-tiny widdle-bit fun...or not.


Who remembers this early effort by Naughty Dog?

Lets Remember...Way of the Warrior


Let's.......not. ;)

I've heard about this game way back when. Mostly bad stuff. Good thing I avoided the 3DO.

Hard to believe that years later, these same guys would develop quite possibly the greatest kart-racer of them all, Crash Team Racing.

Kart is way better than CTR.

You have no taste.

CTR's actually quite good. Not the best kart racer ever, but much better than Mario Kart 64...especially in terms of course design and control.

I remember WOTW...but I wish I didn't. It was so cheaply produced, badly coded, and full of lame Crocodile Dundee-esque "Australian" cliches that it makes me cringe everytime I think about it. Kinda fun to play, but only if you're more interested in cheap laughs than gameplay.

The game was laughable in many, many ways. Still, for some reason, I played it over and over, and even had a MAS Super Pro made for my 3DO so I could pull of the fatalities (3DO controller worst ever? Believe it.) So, I had fun with it.

The game was made for like $5, all things considered, it wasn't TOO bad. Sure is better than that Kasumi Ninja game on the Jaguar.

This was just during the MK crazy so that explains a lot. They could have bothered to make a complete game though. I remember seeing some cool fatalities.

P.S.- I want a new Eternal Champions.

Way of the Warrior did indeed suck. The fact that it wasn't even the worst fighting game on the 3DO (S.H.A.D.O.W. was) doesn't say good things about the system.

I think Naughty Dog's Playstation games, while completely unoriginal, were still well made.

Way of the Warrior was terrible. I thought it looked okay for a digitized game, and it sounded alright, but it had faulty gameplay. Luckily, 3DO fans had Super Street FIghter 2 Turbo and Samurai Showdown to keep them busy...even if those weren't exactly perfect, either.

The 3DO had a serious problem with screen scrolling with 2d games which pretty much ruined games like SF and Shodown for me.

I don't think Samurai Showdown's main problems came from the graphics, as I thought they were actually pretty good. I think the biggest problem that game had was the control (and it wasn't entirely the controller's fault) and the muffled sounds.

But yeah, Street Fighter on 3DO had some pretty noticable problems with the background graphics. But strangly enough, it played pretty well even with the Panasonic pad.

I can see how someone could be turned off by both games, though.

I remember when this game was set up on the demo unit at my local EB, and people would come in and exclaim "WOW! It looks amazing!"

Casual gamers scare me.

WOTW was made with $70000 out of the developers pockets. Looking at the game, I think one of the team members was running around with $69000 of that money in his pocket, because it sure as hell didn't go into the game. I remember the September 96 gamefan interview with Naughty Dog, where they made it seem as though WOTW was a triple AAA game that redefined the fighting genre.

As much as I hate Naughty Dog, they are some of the most talented technical developers in the business; too bad they're wasting it as Sony's personal fart catchers.

a problem with screen scrolling?

All i remeber is Gamefan giving it a glowing review, proly dave I think. lol!

I guess "screen scrolling" isn't a very good term to describe it. With every 2d 3DO game I played, the screen moved very choppy when moving left or right. I don't know if it was a frame rate issue or what but it was a definite problem I had not seen in 2d games before.