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Essentially it's a side-scrolling shooter with verticality.

But that suggests the jumping is more difficult than it is. There's no depth to the screen here, at least not in the levels I played, so it's more like a straight-up action platformer. For me, it was Renegade and Narc, though both are imperfect analogues for Huntdown. If your childhood was anything like mine, you played something that looked a bit like it on an arcade machine down the local leisure centre, eating soggy chips with fingers that still tasted of chloroform chlorine (so glad I didn't name the leisure centre - ed) from the pool. The video should give you a good idea of what kind of game this is. Huntdown is a side-scrolling beat and shoot 'em up for one or two players, and it does good gangs.īaseball bats have become hockey sticks, and The Warriors themselves have become guns for hire rather than a gang on the run, but in many ways this could be one of those sequels that decides the best thing to do is to move the action to the future. When I played Huntdown at GDC last week, a stack of decades-old games came to mind, but it was The Warriors that leaped to the front of the queue, in an explosion of denim, spraycans and chains.

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That's probably at least in part because The Warriors is the perfect film for a game adaptation, seeing as it's full of minibosses, action sequences and a basic level structure.

Rockstar's adaptation of The Warriors is one of my favourite licensed games.