Ikari Warriors (1988) 
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Kasket Dark fyre (Unknown) 25th Mar 2013 12:38"Kill them. Kill them all."
Based in a fantasy war against a seemingly unknown army, you control an Ikari Warrior whose duty is to rid the world of an ever-present danger and stop the evil madman from completing his quest of world dominance. All right, so the story is old and dated, as well as the general plot in which we’ve seen it appear in numerous titles across several different action games. However, Ikari Warriors is a game that is mindlessly addictive as well as fun, especially once you get past the difficulty and visual problems that seem to constantly appear in different areas of the game!
What separates this version of the game from the others is the fact that the screen is shrunk a little bit and all of your scores, grenades and otherwise is placed on either side of the shrunken screen. I’m really not sure why this took place, but it doesn’t really detract from the overall game play. What you’ll find though is that the difficulties that you might have found in other versions of this title have been ramped up to the point of not being able to play the last few stages. I’ve played through this game several times and got to the end of the game, only to find the invincible final boss again!
-The Game Play -
You take control of a killing machine in the form of a soldier that collects a wide range of weapons to use against a seemingly endless wave of enemies. The enemies appear from all directions, with the most notable difficulty coming from the various boss characters that you may go up against from time to time. You’ll be able to hitch a ride in a tank, which boosts your overall offensive power, but is easily destroyed, especially in later stages when the enemies becomes so thick, you can’t see anymore!
Through all of this, you’ll find that the stages take forever to complete, and after sitting down for an hour and playing through, you only come to stage two, which is twice as long and twice as hard as the first one. This will come as a rather redundant and repetitive way of presenting the game, especially when you’re looking to fight something other than endless waves of enemy soldiers! The game moves forward, with no chance to go back, so if you’re looking for a power up, make sure that you haven’t passed it up on the screen already.
Enemies will come at you from every angle, in the form of tanks, special soldiers and otherwise, and if you let them get too close, you’ll find yourself in a crumpled heap on the battlefield. The difficulty of the game is only compounded by the fact that the enemies never seem to stop coming, and in later stages, it can become down right impossible to pass certain points if you don’t have the right weapon at hand! If you have a friend around, have them hook up with the second player, which may or may not give you a better fighting chance.
There really isn’t much else to the game other than mindlessly killing everything in sight, even though some of the weapon power ups are pretty cool, so you’ll be looking at an extremely long game that doesn’t seem to have an end. Once you get to that point though, you’ll be so numb from killing things for hours previous; you really won’t be in too much shock at who you face off against!
Controlling your Ikari Warrior is a little different, in which you have a multi directional path that you can take, with eight different directions you can go in on the screen. Learning how to make your Warrior move is most of the battle, because the game is spent trying to avoid getting hit by the endless stream of bullets that are flying at you! Once you’ve attained a tank, the controls aren’t any different than if you were controlling just the character, so again, no worries there. The game is set up to accommodate any gamer of any skill level, so both experts and beginners can apply here to Ikari Warriors!
-The Visuals -
Visually, the game has plenty of detail with the stages that you run through, but the character differences are limited to palette swapped enemies and blocky characters. The stages range from a forest to what looks like a warehouse or base, but you really can’t tell what is what in the early stages because of the fuzzy quality of the detailing in the game! However, what you are able to see is rather well drawn with explosions coming through in some places and the tank animations of it overheating and exploding rather flaring.
The problem that really comes in is that the game breaks up a lot when you have too much action on the screen. It can be downright disheartening when you’ve avoided a ton of enemy fire, only to be killed by the one shot you didn’t see because the image blinked out of existence! Something else that comes up is the glitch in the later stage in which you fall into a hole that is blanked out and it comes back to life, killing you in the process and freezing the game.
-The Audio-
The audio in Ikari Warriors is adventure and action music all the way, but it repeats over and over again without pause. If you add in that the sound effects sound cool at first, but then drone into the game music that is replayed over and over again, you’ll find that bleeding ears is probably the next thing that will happen to you! Based simply on the fact that the game is so damned long, it takes plenty of patience to really get into the game and try and enjoy the music. If the game stages weren’t so long, there wouldn’t be any notice of the music and the audio, but you can only trample through the stage for so long before the music and the blaring sound effects start to work on your nerves and aggravate you!
-The Verdict-
Ikari Warriors for the Amiga is a great game to play if you have nothing else going on and you want so good old fashioned war violence. Although the game difficulty has been ramped up to the point of wanting to scream at the top of your lungs, you’ll find that the game is still a ton of fun as it has been in years past if you’ve played it. With the details in the visuals and the audio that keeps the pace of the game going, there is little here that would keep you away from playing it a few times on your Amiga system.
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 10/01/02, Updated 10/01/02
Based in a fantasy war against a seemingly unknown army, you control an Ikari Warrior whose duty is to rid the world of an ever-present danger and stop the evil madman from completing his quest of world dominance. All right, so the story is old and dated, as well as the general plot in which we’ve seen it appear in numerous titles across several different action games. However, Ikari Warriors is a game that is mindlessly addictive as well as fun, especially once you get past the difficulty and visual problems that seem to constantly appear in different areas of the game!
What separates this version of the game from the others is the fact that the screen is shrunk a little bit and all of your scores, grenades and otherwise is placed on either side of the shrunken screen. I’m really not sure why this took place, but it doesn’t really detract from the overall game play. What you’ll find though is that the difficulties that you might have found in other versions of this title have been ramped up to the point of not being able to play the last few stages. I’ve played through this game several times and got to the end of the game, only to find the invincible final boss again!
-The Game Play -
You take control of a killing machine in the form of a soldier that collects a wide range of weapons to use against a seemingly endless wave of enemies. The enemies appear from all directions, with the most notable difficulty coming from the various boss characters that you may go up against from time to time. You’ll be able to hitch a ride in a tank, which boosts your overall offensive power, but is easily destroyed, especially in later stages when the enemies becomes so thick, you can’t see anymore!
Through all of this, you’ll find that the stages take forever to complete, and after sitting down for an hour and playing through, you only come to stage two, which is twice as long and twice as hard as the first one. This will come as a rather redundant and repetitive way of presenting the game, especially when you’re looking to fight something other than endless waves of enemy soldiers! The game moves forward, with no chance to go back, so if you’re looking for a power up, make sure that you haven’t passed it up on the screen already.
Enemies will come at you from every angle, in the form of tanks, special soldiers and otherwise, and if you let them get too close, you’ll find yourself in a crumpled heap on the battlefield. The difficulty of the game is only compounded by the fact that the enemies never seem to stop coming, and in later stages, it can become down right impossible to pass certain points if you don’t have the right weapon at hand! If you have a friend around, have them hook up with the second player, which may or may not give you a better fighting chance.
There really isn’t much else to the game other than mindlessly killing everything in sight, even though some of the weapon power ups are pretty cool, so you’ll be looking at an extremely long game that doesn’t seem to have an end. Once you get to that point though, you’ll be so numb from killing things for hours previous; you really won’t be in too much shock at who you face off against!
Controlling your Ikari Warrior is a little different, in which you have a multi directional path that you can take, with eight different directions you can go in on the screen. Learning how to make your Warrior move is most of the battle, because the game is spent trying to avoid getting hit by the endless stream of bullets that are flying at you! Once you’ve attained a tank, the controls aren’t any different than if you were controlling just the character, so again, no worries there. The game is set up to accommodate any gamer of any skill level, so both experts and beginners can apply here to Ikari Warriors!
-The Visuals -
Visually, the game has plenty of detail with the stages that you run through, but the character differences are limited to palette swapped enemies and blocky characters. The stages range from a forest to what looks like a warehouse or base, but you really can’t tell what is what in the early stages because of the fuzzy quality of the detailing in the game! However, what you are able to see is rather well drawn with explosions coming through in some places and the tank animations of it overheating and exploding rather flaring.
The problem that really comes in is that the game breaks up a lot when you have too much action on the screen. It can be downright disheartening when you’ve avoided a ton of enemy fire, only to be killed by the one shot you didn’t see because the image blinked out of existence! Something else that comes up is the glitch in the later stage in which you fall into a hole that is blanked out and it comes back to life, killing you in the process and freezing the game.
-The Audio-
The audio in Ikari Warriors is adventure and action music all the way, but it repeats over and over again without pause. If you add in that the sound effects sound cool at first, but then drone into the game music that is replayed over and over again, you’ll find that bleeding ears is probably the next thing that will happen to you! Based simply on the fact that the game is so damned long, it takes plenty of patience to really get into the game and try and enjoy the music. If the game stages weren’t so long, there wouldn’t be any notice of the music and the audio, but you can only trample through the stage for so long before the music and the blaring sound effects start to work on your nerves and aggravate you!
-The Verdict-
Ikari Warriors for the Amiga is a great game to play if you have nothing else going on and you want so good old fashioned war violence. Although the game difficulty has been ramped up to the point of wanting to scream at the top of your lungs, you’ll find that the game is still a ton of fun as it has been in years past if you’ve played it. With the details in the visuals and the audio that keeps the pace of the game going, there is little here that would keep you away from playing it a few times on your Amiga system.
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 10/01/02, Updated 10/01/02
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This title was first added on 19th June 2010
This title was most recently updated on 30th January 2015