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Afro Samurai: Whole Lotta Gameplay

Join Samuel L. and the RZA for a look at this cartoon action game.

Jan. 26 2009

Posted by: Brad

60 Comments

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Edited By bigdaddyjack21

Looks all right loved the show

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Looks bad. I had to stop the video when the shitty music started.

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Edited By PLWolf

Awesome!! I can't wait to play this, I loves me some hack n slash action.

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Edited By Double0hFor

looks okay

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Edited By fr0br0

I might check it out simply because The RZA and Sammy L. is in it.

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Edited By jakob187

Never was interested in the show, not too interested in the game.

However, PureRok...that was not some shitty music.  You got disrespect, son.
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Edited By coffeesash

Most of that video was Afro as a teenager, maybe you learn more moves later.

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PureRok you better watch it nobody talks mess about bobby digital

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looks actually pretty awesome,i fuckin love the show!

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Edited By zitosilva

I actually was hyping this game, but this video left me severely disappointed.

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Edited By Foshi

Do the enemies even attack? Was this on easy mode or something? I'm interested because I enjoyed the series and movie, but this didn't look very fun gameplay wise. Hopefully, the enemies actually attack and react to what the player is doing because I didn't see any of that in this video.

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Edited By zoozilla

It's got a really cool look.

I'm not into the anime, though, so I think I'll skip this one.

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Edited By hatking

Maybe I'm crazy...I thought it looked pretty cool.

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Edited By myke_tuna

The first track was alright, but I liked the second one a bit better. For some reason I wish RZA would use that old-school 36 Chambers/Liquid Swords gritty Wu-Tang style for the soundtrack to this game, but whatever. As for the game, it looks pretty good. As long as it's better than Conan, then I'm in. Probably a rent though.

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Sounds and looks retarded.

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Edited By chewii101

How Bout a Hand of Body-Part Poka????

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Edited By Dryker

Dude! I'm sold.

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Edited By JoblessTerence

Meh, it looks like it could be fun for about 1 hour.

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Edited By strangeling

Visually, this looks sweet.

However, gameplay looks like button mashing.
And I'm no fan of SLJ, so I won't be getting this.
Soundtrack's nice too.
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I am satisfied.  By far the best combat video they've released.

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Edited By Gregomasta

dude, that dude threw a sword into that guys head, then stood on the sword.

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Edited By DeepSpace9MM

Looks alright, I guess, but the RZA might be the best part.

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Edited By Scooper

That's a hand. That's a head. That's Samuel L. Jackson talking into a microphone. That's a tasty burger.

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Looks really, really boring.

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I suddenly have the urge to play Body-Part Poka. Anyone else want to join in?

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Edited By TomServo

I wanna play bpp too, okay, wait, I can't hold my pair of hands now that I have no hands.

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a lot of strategic dismemberment in this mah

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Edited By TehFro

The way he says "Body-Part Poker" infuriates me every goddamn time I hear it, for some odd reason.

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I'm intrigued. I caught one or two episodes of the show. I know very little about it other than starring Samuel L. Jackson.

I wonder how many gimmicky uses of the word "motherfucka" they'll try to fit within the confines of an "M" rating?

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-_-

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...Not feeling he RZA's new musical style..

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Edited By GobiasIndustries

Looks boring. And the catch phrases are already annoying.

Too bad, the music is cool and Samuel L Jackson is a motherfucking badass

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Edited By Wright

still don't understand why they would take a 5 episode anime and make it into this big game focused on the north american audience. Guess its the whole SLJ getting to say a few lines in the mostly action based anime =_= though it DID have nice fight scenes...just wouldn't really want to play a game based on it for hours since there's not much to go on to begin with....and they need to make afro's face more squishy damnit.

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Edited By fishinwithguns

It doesn't look amazing, but could be fun.  It has some things going for it...for one, RZA.  Another thing is that at least it'll be a game that doesn't take itself too seriously, and therefore will probably actually emphasize GAMEPLAY over anything else.  I'm so tired of games that are trying to be movies.  As much as I love them, games are not art.  Using Halo as an example, multiplayer is fun, but you have to be a mega-nerd to give a fuck about the story.  No offense...but then again, fuck you if you get offended

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Edited By Jasper_Clause

Ahhh Kuma.

Your tragedy is the worst. Can't wait to see his bit in the movie when it comes out.

As for this game.... for the love of God please don't suck.
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I didn't realize there'd be lyrics too. Isn't that Masta Killa rapping?

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Edited By otzlowe

Good art style they've got going. Never even heard about this before now, but it looks like it's got some potential. Let's hope it shapes up to be good, eh?

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I Agree with Wright, this is a weird choice, ever since i saw that they were making an Afro game i was kind of intrigued, and i must say it looks better then i thought it would, Art Style,  Music, the combat looks like it might have enough little things thrown in there to keep it from being a typical hack-and-slash, but we will see! 

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Looks about as involving as the anime.

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Edited By DraculaDillenger

After the video, I am left to question the lack of atmospheric sound.  Grass crushed underfoot, planks creaking, clothes whipping etc.  I mostly heard grunts, sword effects and jump sounds.  Is this true of the entire play experience?  Looks swank, though.  Nice character animation, too.  I am a sucker for beat-em-ups.

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I played a sample of the game out at PAX last year. Definitely some degree of button mashing involved, but I had some laugh-out-loud, "that's gotta hurt" moments playing the game (such as the sword surfing finishing move in the vid). Enough so that I'd want to play the finished product. Perhaps it would be a good rental to see if it gets really old after a few hours. I know the 20th time playing body-part poker, it would get pretty annoying.

But, hell, if Dynasty Warriors can churn out sequel after sequel of the same button mashing crap, there's gotta be some contingent that enjoys it.
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Yeah I want to get this, looks pretty sweet.

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wow that game looks obnoxious! I think I would jump out of  my 3rd story window if it would shut samuel L up!

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Looks alright. Not a huge fan on hack-n-slashes.

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I cannot fuckin wait to play this.

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MEH.....this one looks kinda crappy.  Samuel Ls voice was actually pretty annoying and the combat looked OK.  The part where it pauses and goes slow in black and white all the time sucked.

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Looks like it could be interesting.
Never seen the anime, but it looks like it fits well with a video game format.

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Edited By vigorousjammer

looks pretty cool... a lot better than I was expecting...
still, though... it looks to be a rental...
I'm predicting a 3/5

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Wow that game will annoy the fuck outta me in 5 min. Sam L.'s voice doesn't even match the guy at all.

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There are over a 120 combos in the game.