The mob double crosses muscle bound African American Vietnam veteran Lincoln Clay and executes him with a show in the head. Fate dictates that he would not die in that violent act and a one man army bloody revenge on the powerful city Kingpin and his gangs ensues.
I love action movies almost as no other genre, well with the exception of horror.
if you ever wondered having been Rambo a product of the 60's how the Blaxploitation Cinema era would have treated the subject, well this game is the best possible answer to that.
There was Blackenstein and Blackula, the wonderful Shaft Movies with Richard Roundtree were an answer to the tough white rogue cop. The black Bullitt.
I'm gonna digress a lot in this review because i love this game so much since it touches a lot of passions of mine not only in video games but specially in movies.
So as i was saying, the 70's where awesome for genre action and crime movies like The Godfather, the aforementioned Bullitt or Dirty Harry but also their over the top B versions like everything Italy churned out as homages/exploitation of those movies: stuff like Live Like a Cop, Die Like A Man (1976) or Wipeout! (1973) Rome Armed to the Teeth (|1976) Holy Crap! If you haven't seen those movies you can't begin to imagine how much kickassery is contained in their duration time!
Those movies where the reaction of exploitative producers to the USA movie hits, but with all the subtlety left out. "Yeah yeah , great cinematography, character development and dialogue man but let's cut to the goons being blown apart by shotguns blasts already!"
And THAT is what this game is about!
Sure, there's a lot of characters, and plenty (skippable) dialogue scenes and they are very well written and the cgi characters even show uncannily subtle expressions! But what you gonna love if you are anything like me is just sneaking through gangsters or white supremacist territory all over "New Bordeaux" and shoot them down like the rage of God! All while playing it as a huge black MoFo dressed exactly like Stallone at the beginning of First Blood!
This is Boss N*gger (1975) meets Massacre Mafia Style (1975) in a video game- Hadn't had this much fun sin GTA San Andreas or Manhunt, i'm loving every minute of it and i can't recommend it vehemently enough!
I love action movies almost as no other genre, well with the exception of horror.
if you ever wondered having been Rambo a product of the 60's how the Blaxploitation Cinema era would have treated the subject, well this game is the best possible answer to that.
There was Blackenstein and Blackula, the wonderful Shaft Movies with Richard Roundtree were an answer to the tough white rogue cop. The black Bullitt.
I'm gonna digress a lot in this review because i love this game so much since it touches a lot of passions of mine not only in video games but specially in movies.
So as i was saying, the 70's where awesome for genre action and crime movies like The Godfather, the aforementioned Bullitt or Dirty Harry but also their over the top B versions like everything Italy churned out as homages/exploitation of those movies: stuff like Live Like a Cop, Die Like A Man (1976) or Wipeout! (1973) Rome Armed to the Teeth (|1976) Holy Crap! If you haven't seen those movies you can't begin to imagine how much kickassery is contained in their duration time!
Those movies where the reaction of exploitative producers to the USA movie hits, but with all the subtlety left out. "Yeah yeah , great cinematography, character development and dialogue man but let's cut to the goons being blown apart by shotguns blasts already!"
And THAT is what this game is about!
Sure, there's a lot of characters, and plenty (skippable) dialogue scenes and they are very well written and the cgi characters even show uncannily subtle expressions! But what you gonna love if you are anything like me is just sneaking through gangsters or white supremacist territory all over "New Bordeaux" and shoot them down like the rage of God! All while playing it as a huge black MoFo dressed exactly like Stallone at the beginning of First Blood!
This is Boss N*gger (1975) meets Massacre Mafia Style (1975) in a video game- Hadn't had this much fun sin GTA San Andreas or Manhunt, i'm loving every minute of it and i can't recommend it vehemently enough!