Yesterday I was bored and decided to go the neighborhood Family Video to pick up a game, I began to look through the games, seeing cookie-cutter fighter games, until I found a quirky, yet frantic multiplayer fighting game, enter Kung Fu Chaos.At a first glance, you’ll see nothing new, or even spectacular about it, but never judge a book by its cover, delving deeper into this crazy game, I actually found the story mode real fun and enjoyable, it fares as a standardized beat’em-up game, but adding moving levels ah la Power Stone 2, to create an enjoyable session of beating nameless ninjas.

    Graphically beautiful, this game has bump-mapped water (i.e. high quality H2O) and characters, I’ll use one as an example, the Generic fighter, Ninja Fu-Hiya has a moving mouth, whoopdy-do, right? No, not really, the thing is, there’s cloth covering his mouth, and it moves when he speaks, even in game, which is an awesome bit of detail, if I do say so myself. However, all the bump-mapping in the world couldn’t make it stand out against the DOA Girls and their game, but still, does DOA have 4-player 1 on 1 on 1 on 1 deathmatch, thought not.

     The sounds are fresh and fun to listen to, one of my favorite SFX’s to listen to are the taunts, stuff like “Look at me, and my Ninja-ness.” And “Like my poo, you will be flung” never get old, at least to me. The music is basically non-existent, or at least I never paid attention to it in because the frantic single play mode. All in all, the sound is decent, and since it features the famous “Kung Fu Fighting” song from 70’s band the Foo Fighters, that makes it all the better, alongside with the ability to play saved CD’s on the Xbox’s hard drive in the replays you make. The gameplay is fun and easy.The L button taunts, and R blocks, you can combine the aforementioned buttons to create devastating attacks.

    The story is simple enough, a washed-up Kung Fu movie director calls up some actors (Ninja Fu-Hiya, Chop&Stix ect.ect) to act in his greatest movie ever called “Kung-Fu Chaos” this spans across around 25 stages of mayhem. To add innovation to the mix, the game has implemented a “STARS meter” which rates your performance, do bad, you have to redo the stage, do good and move on. The game is fairly lengthy, around 1-2 hours, long for a fighting game, and adds replay value with the multi-play. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend buying this game, but it is a more than worthy rental, pick it up for a party, that’s what I’d recommend.