 "I'm Bad!!!"
When duty calls, you have to ask yourself: "Are you a bad enough dude?" Not "bad" like Michael Jackson bad. Not "bad" like a burning paper bag on a doorstep bad. No, it has to be the good kind of bad!
So the next time the Secretary of Defense hires you instead of the military to rescue the president safely, remember that to qualify, they need to see how bad you can be!
Sound: The music is consisted of just a jumble of beeps. What should have been a 2.0 was raised to a 3.5 with a simple sound. When you clear a level, your bad dude says "I'm Bad" in a scratchy way. Well, it's more like he's saying it from inside a bottle. Control: It all comes down to holding the "B" button to charge up a punch or tapping it for rapid fire punches and kicks. And the "A" needs work. Tapping it for a hop and holding up and pressing "A" to leap to a higher platform? They could have made it easier if they made you jump as high as you want as long as you hold it. Fun: The game is bad, but not bad enough to get that high a rating. Alternating two player mode isn't very fun. But for a one player experience in badness, it's the game for you! Just ask yourself: "Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"  |
As you can read, the president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Why? Because those ninjas think they're bad. However, they don't realize that the Secretary of Defense, with a olive green jacket and Johnny Bravo shades, has the answer. The U.S. Army ain't bad enough. The Marines ain't bad enough. Not even the Navy Seals are bad enough. So he hires two street punks, dressed in jeans and sleeveless black shirts, and tests their badness. Are they bad enough to rescue the president? Well, are they? They need badditude to win this war against the ninjas with no motive.
Out into the streets you go, because nothing is badder than the mean streets of New York City. Except maybe the New Jersey shores. On any account, ninjas are everywhere. I guess everybody in New York is a president-snatching ninja. Anyhow, most of them are weak, and by charging up your Bad Buster Punch, you can send the ninjas back to the Bad Age! Of course, there are hundreds of ninjas with badditude, and you are only one dude with badditude. How can you content with the badness of the righteously badness of the ninjas?
You'd think that in a two player game, both players would be pitted against the badness of the president-snatching ninjas, right? Well, that's where the game starts to falter. As bad as the main guys are, they ain't bad enough to fight alone. But they do. They do it because the badder they are, the better the pay. With badditude comes a responsibility. You lose credibility when you group badness. Truly bad dudes need to fight alone, for they alone can harness the power of their badness. But they should have made the game a simutaneous two player game. Otherwise, it's a good game. Or should I say a "bad" game. Let's just say it's a game with badditude!