This is a far cry from "The Return of Bruno."
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That dog will throw you off a building. No joke.
PLAYERS: 1
PUBLISHER: Sony Imagesoft
DEVELOPER: Ocean
GENRE: Crap
RELEASE DATE: February 1992
"Hudson Hawk" eh? According to many movie buffs, this is
either one of Bruce Willis' best or worst films. Considering the
man's made a truck load of movies, that's saying a lot either way.
Not having seen the film, I, of course, withhold any judgment. Having
played Hudson Hawk for my NES, however, I feel inclined to
judge swiftly, painfully, and without mercy. Hudson Hawk shall
be banished from my gaming library, never to be played again, unless
the need should arise to jeer at it with friends and loved ones.
I hope you all like broken hands attempting to pick up some dog crap
because that's exactly what this game's graphics and mechanics
represent. Bruce Willis is a fairly attractive guy, but Ocean didn't
even try to recreate his likeness. Instead, we get a thin midget with
a huge chin, overwhelming sunglasses, and a penchant for throwing
baseballs. Seriously, baseballs are your weapon, unless you want to
punch someone squaw in the harbles. Hudson Hawk's jumping ability is
almost non-existent. He can barely get three inches off the ground,
and methinks it was designed like this to give the game some
difficulty. If you were able to jump like any other competent video
game character, you could easily jump over enemies, barriers, gaping
holes – anything, really. Because you can't, the latter becomes
unbearable. Hudson Hawk (or as I ended up calling him Hudson "Rock
Hudson" Hawk) is one of the most unwieldy and ugly characters
I've played as in a long time, and as a result, the game itself is
close to unplayable.
There are worse movie-to-game translations, to be sure, but that
doesn't mean Hudson Hawk needs to be given a passing glance.
The NES is already weighed down by far too many abominable movie
games. Lord knows the games don't need to be encouraged by people
actually playing them.
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ReplyDeleteI remember this game. I rented it on a weekend (my dad really liked the movie) - but I absolutely hated this game, as I recall.
I thought the movie was great but it struck me halfway through reading that, it certainly wasn't for kids. Lots and lots of quirky off-the-wall humor punctuated with weird and gruesome violence. And so they made a kids video game outta it!
ReplyDelete@Willis - haha, good points. I haven't seen the movie in ages... gawd, I don't even recall how old I was when it came out. I just know my dad had a tendency to buy like, every Bruce Willis action movie that came out back then. You could argue that quite a few NES games got made out of movies that probably weren't kid material (like some of the horror ones for example).
ReplyDeleteWhich is still not as bad as some of Atari's more infamous and unapproved adult-themed games (with such incredibly low-resolution graphics that their very existence is so laughable today)