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Shaq-Fu

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1 star:		(9)

 

 

It all happens as soon as you read the title, the acid in your stomache just churns up.

Shaq Fu was one of those gaming horrors of the 90's that should have never been, just like his awful, awful movie career.

I feel like my intelligence decreased after playing it, but back then I was but a mere child and I loved fighting games (as well as RPG's). As such I was easily sucked into playing any fighter that rolled out of a factory, thank god I had only rented this mediocre title.

The graphics were pretty good I'll admit, but then there was Shaq to remind me that I was playing an absolute piece of crap. The characters clobber each other with puns before a battle ensues, oh dear god!! After your brain is crushed from the weight of sheer bad humor the fight starts. At this point you take a deep breath and think "Well at least that's over...". That is if you haven't gotten to the point where your thinking "!$@@&%*@!!^$$#...." and believe me I'll understand if you have.

If you've lasted this long then....I PITY YOUR SOUL!! Anyways, the fight starts and it's incredibly easy...to the point that enjoyment is null and the fact that your playing Shaq Fu doesn't help cure that sudden acid reflux problem either. I beat it in about 20 minutes *yawn* (or was it *urk* I forgot...).

I beg of anyone that's even considering buying this or god forbid, even playing this PLEASE!!! Your not missing a thing, in fact you'll thank me and anyone else that has a similar opinion on the matter. Playing a great 2-D fighter like Samurai Showdown or Street Fighter II is far better than having prematurely gray hair and vomit all over your favorite shirt (and being mentally scarred).

If you own this game, there's an easy cure. Either melt it in a fire or throw it in the sea or anything that makes it dissapear from existance, please don't sell this game to anyone. It's an insult that this game was even made.

In "Shaq Fu", Shaq gets sucked into a portal and he ends up in another world where he must battle bizzare characters in order to make it back to his home world. This is one of the worst plots for a video game I've ever heard. The graphics are terrible. The play control is so bad that Shaq and the other characters can hardly jump! The other characters in the game are so stupid looking. Shaq is better off being a basketball player than a fighter. Save your money and yourself and don't buy this game.

He's a basketball player, yet Shaquille O'Neal made it so big with his basketball career that he thought that he could expose his name in the mid 90's. Shaq Diesel anyone? That was hilarious. Now look what Shaq came up with: a fighting game. Just by having the biggest name on the front of the cover tells enough what the quality of this game really comes out to.

The video game consists of bad punchline dialog before the fights, a plot that's just predictable and stupid, lame graphics, and controls that are so agonizing to handle that it's just completely pointless.

This game was voted one of the worst fighting games for a reason. No need to waste your time on this when there are far superior games released on the SNES with much better plots and controls.

If you've done any research into this title you've heard it is one of the worst video games in history. If you are the kind of person who would watch the reaction video's to "2 girls 1 cup" and tell yourself "Dang, self, I gots ta see what all this fuss is about!" Then this game is for you!

Story? Yeah, you can hear how aweful the story is second hand, but until you've LIVED IT FOR YOURSELF you just can't truly grasp the magnitude!

Controls? Horrible! The AVGN was right when he commented (series of explitives deleted)!

If you want to play this game because you think its a good game, you are mistaken. But if you are looking to experience a truly terrible game just to see how bad it really is, this one's for you!

Yes cause he's f**king you over rather ya like it or not. The controlls are not very good but you know this is a bad game when your storyline is I stumbled upon a Dojo an old man says fight for me this was made when Shaq was with the Magic so the old man says you are the magic 1 so you fight a cat huminoid a boogger Sheets a dude from Aku Locka Polkistan a chick who uses voodoo guess what her name is Voodoo Beast and the boss Sett Ra a boss so stupid he would even be passable for a Killer Instinct character. M Bison and Shao Khan were better Bosses cheap but beatable and your attacks are difficult to pull off but everybody attacks you and there specials are more powerful this would have been a decent arcade game but but play it for 2 player mode and the bad 1 liners at the end of everty fight. Good game if you need a good laugh.

Shaq Fu was voted one of the top 5 worst SNES games two video game magazines beaten only by a barbie game. I played this game for a while and it is the worst! The play control is horrible, the characters are stupid, and the graphics are grainy. And the corny part is the story! I was laughing so hard when we heard the story: Shaq finds a Chinese antique shop and goes to another dimension to save a little boy, beats the crud out of a voodoo lady, a catwoman, and a living mummy and makes it back in time for the basketball game! How cheesy can you get! Buy it for laughs only!

Legendary basketball player Shaquille O'Neil is in Tokyo as he goes into a Chinese store where an old man whisks you away into another dimension where you must combat enemies like a cat-lady, a mummy and other baddies.

One of the worst games of all time! this game is a complete disaster that i remembered thinking the game has an odd yet wacky concept as it has to be fun and rented it from one of my local video stores. The music is ok and the graphics are cartoony but this game has lousy controls that feel like they have been busted, you keep getting killed without a fair chance.

No wonder this has been a waste of rental money for those that rented it, in fact there is a site that is dedicated to destroying this horrible abomination of a game. It's as bad as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, X-Men for NES and E.T. for Atari.

This is one of those SNES games that makes me wonder how hardcore gamers were back in the 90's. It's freakin impossible. The idea is hilarious, but Shaq has terrible moves, and everyone else has amazing moves, and super intelligent AI.Don't pay too much for this game, but it's good for a few laughs.

I bought this game for one cent, and I definitely received one cent's worth of entertainment from this game. Don't get me wrong, it's terrible. However, it is terrible in the way Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is terrible - so pathetically you can't help but laugh. If Mystery Science Theatre 3000 ever reviewed video games, they would start and stop with this little gem's opening cutscene. Here, we learn that Shaq was in Tokyo for a benefit game when some weird man in an antique shop/karate dojo (I admit, I have no clue what this is) tells him he has to save the boy Nezu from a mummy-thing named Sett-Ra and sends him to another world. Yeaaaah. You then proceed to fight some random generic fighter people and lose horrifically, because really, they have swords and magic and who knows what else, and you're a basketball player. I think this game was originally a generic fantasy fighting game, and Shaq was added at the last minute, but I'm not sure if that makes this less insane.

But hey, story doesn't make a game! If it did, why would Mario be king of video gaming? It's the gameplay that matters, right? Right. Sadly, the ridiculous story is probably the most entertaining thing about this game, as the other fighters are far, far better than you will ever care to be at this game and their special attacks are ridiculously better than your puny fireball thing. It might be better in Multiplayer mode, but that would require you inflicting this game on another person. That said, the graphics are really nice, and animations are smooth, so it's not like it's a total waste of plastic. As one of the most infamous video games ever, it's worth purchasing, particularly since it's more playable than gems like ET and Superman 64. Just don't spend too much on it.

This was the worst fighting game on the SNES system. Even worse than the home version of SNK's ART OF FIGHTING and FIGHTER'S HISTORY. The game is not only stupid, it's easy and the characters are really lame.

Granted yes, this game was released when Shaquille was really, really big in the mainstream, but after this game, notice how things started to go bad for him. After all, he did KA-ZAAM. But anyway, the controls are bad, the graphics are bad, fights are really predictable (ex: you know what the computer is going to do) and all in all not a fun game.

Seriously, SNES had all of the better fighting games so I'm sure you could find one that you like because there are several to choose from. For instance, STREET FIGHTER II series (New Challengers, Hyper, etc), MORTAL KOMBAT II and ULTIMATE MORTAL KOMBAT, FATAL FURY 2 SPECIAL and even BALLZ. Skip SHAQ FU, it's a waste of your time.