So I’ve decided that every now and then we should tell you about games worth playing that you may have missed the first time around (Much like Pike’s classic Videogame posts over at Clockwork Hare). This is the first one of these.

The Warriors

This right here. It came out of nowhere, it was based on a cult movie from 25 years previously, and it was on top of that a brawler game, in the tradition of Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Not exactly the hottest genre in the middle of the Noughties.

And it. Is. AWESOME! It’s brutally violent, hilarious, chaotic, and absolutely ridiculously fun to play. It’s great by yourself but even better with a friend, so if you can get a friend and a copy of this game, I urge you to sit down and bro-op through it, because it truly is an awesome time. It’s a little hard to pin down what it is that makes it so great. I sympathize with Troy Goodfellow’s position that simply saying something is ‘fun’ is a copout, and yet – it is. It’s ‘fun’ in a manner which I have a lot of trouble defining. It’s not a complicated game, nor a deep one, but it is deeply amusing and engrossing.

So go play it!