Buy this game. For the price you can't go wrong. Beats the crap out of the majority of full priced games!
RDKF is a simple concept but difficult to master. Excuse the terrible cliche, but it's never been truer. Playing with nothing but the mouse (or multiple mice, should you have a few friends round), you select individual body parts and move them just how you would in real life. Taking your first steps is like learning to walk again; take one foot and place it in front of the other and so on. Jumping simply involves dragging your character into the air. The higher your chi (increases by making small circles with the mouse) the higher you jump and the more powerful you become.
Fighting is dealt with in a similar way; just right-click and drag a limb towards and enemy to unleash the fury! Once you've got the hang of moving your character about, fighting and jumping and taking on multiple enemies is just like watching some crazy kungfu movie. Massively satisfying and so much fun. I challenge you to try playing through this game without a massive grin on your face.
Having no pre-made character animations makes every single move you make unique and will no doubt give every single player their own movement and fighting style. That said, this is without a doubt one of the most difficult games to get to grips with I have ever played. To be a true master of the game will no doubt take a lot of time and practice, but there's so much fun to be had in both story mode and multiplayer that this is hardly a bad thing.
Story mode comprises of missions based on a story (surprising, huh?) with video cutscenes merging the two. The cutscenes are worth the entry price alone. Unlike most games which THINK they're funny, this game genuinely is. Since the game is British, so is the humour to an extent, which is never a bad thing. And i'm not biased in the slightest. Ahem.
Multiplayer mode offers the usual deathmatch mode (much like playing IK+ on the Commodore 64, but with up to 8 people; human or AI) as well as various other modes of play such such as football. My main gripe with the game was problems connecting to servers. I'm not sure whether this was a problem with my connection or not, but the whole connecting to server thing isn't as easy as it could/should be. Hopefully this is just down to me trying to connect to servers within an hour of the games release.
Graphically the game looks great. Using essentially a 2D game engine with some degree of depth the game creates varied environments from temples to forests, even football pitches. The characters themselves are totally skinnable but the game ships with a wide range of skins which can easily be mixed and matched. The gaming community is bound to get really creative here. Sound is a pretty standard affair, with the kind of sounds and music you'd expect from this kind of game.
Overall, the game comes highly recommended. It's all about fun and doesn't take itself the least bit serious. Difficult to get to grips with, but a bit of perseverance really pays off. I can see this game to have a massive online following and I wouldn't be surprised to see it becoming almost as big as the likes of CounterStrike etc. Well, just as soon as connecting to a server is made a bit easier...