Well... this was interesting.
After playing Bubsy 3D in my young childhood days, I never thought they'd be a game that was worse! Well, I found it. Shaq Fu.
This was released at the time when Shaquille O'neal was at the height of his popularity. He slammed like no other, he rapped and even brought a whole net down!
But this (and his rap career) must of dampened his reputation.
But now onto the game, and I kinda like company logo, with stereotypical martial arts noises. Then it's the title screen, we see Shaq-diesel in a martial arts stance that must of give him a hard time in the crotch area. The title screen must be the best part of the game. It has an awesome colour scheme and Shaq is like so totally pumped-up.
Now we start the game. We have an option of Duel, Tournament and Story. Being a guy likes a bit of storylines, I'll go for the story mode. Well, the story mode is quite the opposite to the quality of Metal Gear solid, or any GOOD game. Anyways... the world-famous NBA superstar Shaquille O'neal goes into a chinese resturant, or something. Talks to a random old guy, and enters a new world. Ok... that makes no sense. Why does Shaq go into an old guys house, and wouldn't the old guy be star-struck to see a celebrity? Seriously. You might as well have Michael Jordan play basketball against aliens... oh, that's been done. So anyways... you arrive in this strange new world, this seems to be quite fasinating at first, you quickly (I mean quickly) walk across this island, and find new areas to fight different people. Now that's rude, maybe I'm missing the point here, but why does Shaq go around starting on everybody, they might be doing there laundry or something... moving on.
You select an area and this is where the fun begins... *sigh*. You enter a get ready style like all fighting games, with a face-off between combatants, Shaq has a fist up, like an old man. I'm fighting the sword guy, so he is obviously an indian. Shaq says "You'll hurt yourself with that sword" and I can't remember what the sword man says. But Shaq, it would of been better if you said, "I'll stick that sword up your a**e so hard it'll say hello back a me." (OK, that was wrong I'm sorry).
Ok, now the fighting screen has come on and... to my suprise, the controls suck, it may be the world he's on but how does Shaq do a somersault, he's 7 foot tall, and not a skinny one at that. So here I am getting whooped by the sword man, he uses powerful moves, and I can only kick, which does nothing. I lose to the sword man, and I give up. I run around the island again, and I fight some gremlin dude. The "face-off" screen comes up... and the gremlin looks like a harmless old hag with lepresy. So the gremlin beats me. I goe to the island and I face "Cat-girl".
Cat-girl is a horrible woman, she is impossible. She slids about and makes you wonder if Shaq will do anything to stop her. She uses awesome attacks and Shaq kicks and does somersaults. I die again.
Now I've quit story mode. Let's do duel. So, I choose Gremlin hag and guess who I fight... Shaq of course. So the screen comes up and guess what... Shaq is kicking my green a**e! Damn! I actually find it better to control the green dude then shaq, so I eventually beat Shaq! Wow, that was tough.
So, to conclude. Shaq Fu displays the most brutal controls in any fighting game, possibly in the whole of gaming. The characters suck, the storyline is drab and I personally... what to destroy Shaq-Fu. (P.S. the faces on top of the fighting screen are funny, the best thing.)