@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 It was the opposite for me unfortunately. Played the demo and DESPISED the combat. Using the right stick just felt so unnatural for combat. Turned me off from buying the game. Bought it later on and it played much better than I thought. Still not great, but fun.
@@DiamondDust132 I just played this and I agree the control scheme is broken. The game is extremely linear plus you have God like AI I don't normally quit games but I couldn't finish it. I wasn't having fun with it. Much better action games out there.
Movie licenses turned into obscure PS2 games would make a great future series dude, there's tons of the things. Unfortunately there's no Doc Hollywood PS2 game :(
@Jumbo Jango I guess, but without the amazing flow arkham has, and the challenge of keeping your combos both going and varied, it seems like it would get boring really quickly.
But then there is DMC1 3 years prior which was pretty advance at the time and then DMC3 a year later blew EVERYTHING during of that era in term of combat (Yes, even GoW 1 and 2.)
@@Sophie_the_Sapphic Well, you got the mother of baddass combat called DMC3 to thanks for that (Surprisingly released a year later of Rise of Honor which became the template for all of the future action game including GoW, Bayonetta, Arkham and more.)
@@zhaoyun255 I love dmc 3 it's definitely a very influential game, I mean hell it basically created its own subgenre. But to say "it's the template for all future action games" is absolutely ludicrous, and I'd love to see your justification for it. But at the very least you have to agree that it wasn't an influence on God Of War since they came out the year.
Arkham’s combat took so much from this game. Fighting enemy to enemy seamlessly, slow motion final kicks & punches. One of the most underrated games of the PS2 era.
@@thomasu_design8376 hes basically talking, arkham combat are ripoff from jetli games that's all, why he doesn't talking about yakuza games does that too, ninja turtle marvel and etc had that too since ps2 era, its just he acknowledge so many games that uses this combat since day 1
I remember my mother getting this for me along with the PS2 when I was younger, being young I had no idea what to do and used to die constantly on one specific mission. A couple of years down the line I was able to find my old copy of the game and bought a PS2 and fired it up and played it again, still challenging but in a good way. One of my favorite games, it has a special place in my heart.
@CRIMNALSNEAK I agree with everything you’ve said, and I feel the same for other games like Chow Yun-Fat’s Stranglehold and Jackie Chan’s Stuntmaster. Metacritic should feel ashamed of their rating system, a lot of people sadly look at ratings before giving the game a chance and automatically think it’s a bad - while it’s a gem and so much more. I felt like I really was in a movie, it was awesome and will always be!
In the kitchen with killer cooks you can press their face on the flat top grill burning their face, hearing their screams of agony as they frantically tap the counter top in pain while their health whittles down to nothing
@matt I'm my opinion of course it is a bad to decent at best console with appalling bad exclusives and gave things that plague the modern gaming market were giving the push from Microsoft a company who buys and ruins other companies Out of the like 4 or 5 controllers across all consoles from the broken duke to the broken elite the xbox360 1is really exceptional incredible
When I was a kid my dad said Jet Li went to his job and so I asked if Jet Li can sign my game and my dad too it to him to sign it and my dad took a pic with him. Last week I asked him if it was really Jet Li or just a Chinese guy who signed my game. He said it was a guy from China who went to his job and the dude played along with the joke😂
I remember playing this back in 2004. I still remember dropping an accidental f-bomb in front of my mom and getting my Playstation taken away for 2 weeks, and all I could think about was playing this game again.
@@yellow_flash813 you guys are soo lucky if his momma was mine she would taken my playstation for life. god took it for years now...if i get to play again i gonna have to swear to not swear
I think the problem with Rise to Honor is it's terrible cover art. ive seen this game in stores many times and i always thought it's some crappy movie tie-in game.
With how popular Ip Man is, you'd think someone would have bought up the video game rights. Personally, I would have loved a Arkham-style Legend of the Fist game (it's basically a superhero movie anyway)
Pick it up now if you have a working ps2. I still purchase games on ps2 cause didnt experience them as a kid. I just dont have as much free time as i did back then lol
Yesterday it was Raycevick's video on underappreciated games and now its your turn covering one of my favorite games on the PS2. Today it feels like Christmas so thanks Minimme and I'm just subbed to your channel.
loved this game as a kid and as a huge fan of martial arts movies, Jet Li, and beat em ups it hit that perfect combo of them all and am i the only person that appreciates a fun short game, not everything has to be 1000 hours long especially current games coming out now
You know what man, this was one of my favorite games to play as a kid. I loved the fighting mechanics and i have nothing but great memories of this game. I haven't played it since i was a little kid but this makes me wanna fire up the emulator and do a play through again. I'm glad someone made a video on this because you're damn right, this game is extremely under rated. No one ever talks about this game, i'd lose my shit if they decided to remaster this.
"what is with video games and sewers?" Well, they are closed spaces and are way easier to render than rooftop or street sections... And its much easier to load the next area when its hidden by a sewer curve.
Literally just remembered about this game a couple of days ago. Literally one of the first games I ever played. Still have it to this day as well as my PS2. Probably will whip the bad boi out and feel the nostalgia!
I remember pre ordering this and getting it 2 days before release date, I was chuffed as anything, man im old... i had every jet li film on dvd before the game came out so looked forward to it and remember enjoying it, your video in my recommended bought back memories, id replay it if i knew where to get roms these days!
@Ijustcametogetsomethingtoeat Remember when that Viewtiful Joe 2 demo disc wiped tons of PS2 memory cards? I remember. Lost everything on my memory card, and didn't know because I didn't play for a few days after trying it. Lost my Dot.hack save, my completed GTA:SA file, and several completed Dynasty Warriors game files. I didn't use demo discs after that.
I played that. It has a special place in my heart... going all out depleting all of your red bar on 3 guys. Only to take more that 5 min on the twin boss.
@@rastas_4221 Was that the game that had a flaw/ bug in the Xbox version that made a certain boss unbeatable and therefore the game was basically useless unwinnable. Cuz I totally get it.
I spent so many hours playing this game as a kid. Going back thru with different outfits and such. Definitely underappreciated. I haven't played a game since that comes close to it's style of combat so it has a very unique feel.
I never heard of this game but watched the video upon appearing in my suggested videos simply because I wanted a game that represent martial arts actors like Jackie Chan Stuntmaster.
You got a bingo exactly my sentiment Ps1 - Stunt Master ps2 - Rise of Honor ps3 - Sleeping Dogs (imo the hero should have been donnie yen) note : And the NES Kung fu Master the ancient prequel
This is still one of my favorite games. It really is a well-crafted game and the combat system is original and flows so well. Being a huge Jet Li, fan I love seeing the Easter eggs and references to his films and I love that Corey Yuen and several of my favorite stuntmen were involved in the mocap work.
@@thecliffracer Technically there was, it was an awful F2P game where they promised multiplayer and then launched it with a psuedo multiplayer where you attack someone's base and do the same, ala, Let it Die style, but no actual multiplayer. Sleeping Dogs was a fucking masterpiece and the DLC was amazing. SD was the only video game to make me get teary eyed and fill me with rage against a fake character. It was like SR2 Carlos but even more heart breaking. Why we never got an actual sequel I'll never know.
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 I doubt that's still happening. Donnie Yen talked about it the last time in early 2018, since then there hasn't been any new news on it.
I loved this game as a kid especially the part by the tunnel & the enemies was pulling up on motorcycles & using Jet Li you could side kick em off the bike was so satisfying to me 😂
Something thats interesting to me about Rise to Honor is it’s cinematic elements weren’t received well by my friends growing up. I remember kids in my class saying “that game has too many cutscenes”. Which bummed me out cause I loved the cutscenes. I also had multiple friends who religiously skipped every cutscene for any game. So I don’t know maybe Rise to Honor was slightly ahead of it’s time in that respect. The game is charming though sometimes. The fight in the street with the bus is a part I remember fondly. The washed out ps2 colors vibe worked for that game, and it’s environments are cool to look at I think.
I bought Metal Gear Solid 2 from a friend for 10$ because of that reason. He wanted a straight go shoot enemies kind of game. He was disappointed when you had to think and watch tons of cutscenes. I don't even think he got past the tanker at the start
Brice Murrie lol yes exactly. A lot of my friends were like that growing up. Some people just want all action, which is totally fine. Different strokes i guess. At least you got one of the best mgs games out of it though
that's a common issue. that was a time when a lot of people used to play games for only timepass and don't really pay attention to the story. I remember a lot of my friends (including me) used to just skip cutscenes to continue the gameplay, because it was boring for us Lol (not to mention we weren't really flushed out in english language, so we always found the dialogues either boring or funny) but we have passed that time, now we live in a era where cinematic games reigns the industry. people have changed over the years, and now they appreciate these kind of games
Using the right stick to attack enemies reminds me of Grabbed by the Ghoulies. That just got me thinking... could that game be on the table for you? That’s a game I believe is very underrated game.
Rise to honor is one of best ps2 games i ever played , the only problem is the fighting mechanic which is really hard , but its a fun games overall and my childhood memories. Please review dead to rights , its underrated games too
Saboteur was amazing, however TP: Fall of Liberty was absolute trash. Even for its time and setting - except an interesting idea (not even properly executed) the game as a whole i just plain bad.
Just looking at this game right now reminds me of mostly one thing. The kitchen in which you could shove enemies faces on fiery hell. That was the shit. The interaction with the environment in this game was good af.
Man, I saw your Cars video and now after viewing multiple videos I shall subscribe. You found somethin no one else was doing and you ran with it! Hope you're doing well man :)
I used to rent this all the time….. every now and then it pops into my head and I remember how epic I remember it being. Never beat it, just loved the tone and atmosphere of those grimey first few missions… played them over and over
No matter how frustrating or confusing this game is, I love it more than any game I have ever played on the ps2, and the fact it had the most satisfying combat in it made me be into it even more.
I freaking loved this game, I was really into anything with martial arts back when I was in high school so this and True Crime were my time killers back then
This game was the first I ever played as a kid! I was 4 when it came out and I fucking loved it. I’m replaying it again and I’m on the level towards the end that you said I would have to spam that wall jump. I beat the game as a kid and when you said that I had no idea how I passed that part as a 4 year old. LOL let alone some of the others right before that mission. This is one of the best analyses I’ve ever seen and it’s 3y ago. I’m excited to hear what other awesome games you’ve talked about 🙏 keep up the good work man thanks a bunch
I remember playing this when I was growing up but as I never knew anyone who had played it or even knew it existed i never talked about it. And i remember enjoying my time with it. Glad you talked about it.
I remember this,I didn't play the whole thing,but me and my brother played it,I remember really loving it,I remember lording over my brother that I beat the drunken bar boss fight. It was such a great game for ps2. Edit:we never finished it as we borrowed it from a friend and the first shootout I always found difficult,I was 8 or 9 at the time
Man This Game Was Way Ahead of it's Time, I Remember When it First Came Out I Immediately Bought it Because I Thought I Was buying A Game That is Close Enough To The Jackie Chan Game in PS1 (I Loved it) But man I Was Surprised By How Good the Graphics Are And Till This Day I Wish Any Gaming Company Would Adopt The Mechanics of This Game (FightingWise) And Improving it Just A little, The Usage of The Sticks To Fight Was (At least To Me) Unheard of And I Thought I Would hate it But I Was Loving Every Second of Playing This Game, Yes it's Indeed Criminally Underrated .
I absolutely ADORED this game as a kid. The intense stick flicking combat and gunfights were insane and the set pieces were top notch. And the boss fights were badass. Criminally underrated game during the PS2 golden days IMO.
This game was so clean to me, the whole time I played this game as a kid I couldn’t get over how good the graphics looked, it felt like I was playing in a movie, some where really tough but I truly enjoyed this game.
Try Jackie Chan's underrated masterpiece Ps1 game "Jackie Chan Stuntmaster" . That game is fun because of it's difficulty. It's not polished as Rise to Honor but it has it's own charms, it's filled with Jackie Chan's humor. If you are really good you could beat it at 3 hours not including the secret level. The gameplay is simple it's a beat em up platformer. The platforming difficulties is where it gets difficult and annoying because every level has a different environment than the other and you have to parkour differently so you have to improve yourself throughout the game. Oh and the ost is pretty good too. If beat em up games had a Dark Souls like game, Jackie Chan Stuntmaster is the one. It has no tutorial whatsoever, just survive and save your grandpa, it has some ridiculous annoying bosses and you will die a lot.
I remember my dad playing this game every time when he came back home after work when I was like 6. This and Max Payne 2 as well. The only games besides pro evolution 4 and tekken 4 that he would play. And it was exciting, I thought it was an awesome game to watch at, just like a movie.
@@themerchant4776 At the time in 2004 I think we have bought the first ps2. So we didn't have many games back then. Once I started to have more and more games I was starting playing more and my dad was less interested in longer games, and only focused on the coop games (football or fighting games like Tekken or Mortal Kombat). But it was cool to see him play Rise of Honor and Max Payne, they had cool stories and fun to watch. I tried to make him play Red Dead Redemption 2 last year since he is a spaghetti western fan, but with age he kinda lost the will to get into videogames except for Pes, which I still play with him when I have the opportunity. Never played any Resident Evil. I rarely had horror games. But I played some great ones, like Dead Space and Until Dawn.
Wanna know something funny, back when I first came across the trailer for it as a teenager, at first I thought it was a trailer for a Jet Li movie I never heard of before. I still remember the times I struggled with this game but despite this I managed to beat it and it’s a really fun game. BTW, Rise to Honor deserves a remaster and needs to be available on PlayStation Store
Hands Down One Of My Favorite PS2 Games Ever Alongside True Crimes (NYC), Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 3 ,GTA lll , The Warriors , The Punisher and Kingdom Hearts Reverse Order Tho
I was a kid when Jet Li was at the peak of his career. With movies like Kiss of the Dragon and such (great movie). So obviously when he featured in a game, it was a no brainer to pick it up and did not regret it. You FELT like Jet Li. Criminally underrated. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was my favorite game when I was a kid. I played this hundreds of times. It really was underrated. It reminds me of pieces from his black mask movie. His speed is out of this world.
The controls for this game were so innovative, it was so amazing, just describing it doesn’t do the game any justice at all. It felt so synergistic the ps2 controller with the rumble and these innovative controls to use the right joystick for combat was truly revolutionary. I remember this game being on a ps2 demo disc I had when I was a kid, I replayed that demo so many times.
This is one of those games I never beat, I made it to the final boss but he kept beating me no matter what I did, I think you have to make sure one of your friends doesn't fall from the roof where you're fighting.
Remember when game devs had only ONE shot to make a game as perfect as they can? LOL nowadays they rely on the internet and live updates to the point where it feels like they are half assing it instead of being more careful. Same goes with graphics and stuff. Nowadays better graphic cards doesn't mean better graphics imo. It feels more like that it gives game devs more room for mistakes and less optimizing since they think "Ohhhh no worries, we have better graphic cards"
True, but that's also because old AAA games took like 2 years to make on PS2, now they have to spend atleast 4 years on a game for it to not be shit(on a technical level), because the bar gets raised for gameplay and graphics, mo-capping and voice acting. They may have to update their old game engines, switch to a better one or make a new one from scratch. They have to half ass it and rely on patches and updates if they want to release more than 1 game a console generation. They have to do more with games to justify buying a whole new system to see why it's better than what the last one could do, which means spending more time pushing the hardware with better looking games. Look at RDR2. 8 years of development. TLOU2 probably took almost the entire life cycle of the PS4, GTA 5 took like 5 years to come out after GTA 4. Hopefully with PS5 and XSX, those times might shrink a moderately, since they seem powerful enough to brute force great results out of the box , saving dev time on optimizing to mitigate bottlenecks, squashing bugs and programming around hardware limitations.
Wouldn't surprise me if they simply start going back to old stuff and simply tweaking it to perfection. Don't be shocked to see old systems with actual hardware make a comeback either with boasts in performance and modern bells and whistles. Its bound to happen.
Or its precursor, "Enter the Matrix". It was a flawed and occasionally annoying title which Path of Neo improved in pretty much every way, but it still had a lot of cool ideas.
I loved that game, it was really unfinished but ahead of its time in some areas (Havoc engine breakable environments, reflections on shiny surfaces,etc...)
This game is good. Gave me quite the rage when I was 8 years old, but whenever I got through an obstacle, felt more glorious than any Souls boss I've defeated.
I can't remember how many times i've completed this game.. back then really never care about framerates and graphic and simply just adore jet lit and his martial arts. I played the jackie chan's game as well
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That it is
I remember trying a demo for this on a demo disc from a magazine. Remember when that was a thing?
I don't think I bought it...
The Tony Hawk running gag is amazing keep it up
I bought this game 2 times lol
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Lol i bought doubles of dbz games back then
sameeeee
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Ah you must be another veteran player
Already know how to beat that drunk man?
I can still feel the controller's vibration when doing a combo move
facts
Same
Finally someone talks about this game! I absolutely loved it when I was a kid and I still do
Same man
This game was nice no lie !
Yeah Jet Li was the man back then and I enjoyed this game flaws and all
Me too
Broh the funny this is i had borrões it from a friend and that das the 2sg and last time i das this game ... i Love it
Bro hitting with the right stick was legendary, me and my older brother played this so many times over and over.
I remember getting the demo from a magazine and I played that shit until the disk stopped working
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 It was the opposite for me unfortunately. Played the demo and DESPISED the combat. Using the right stick just felt so unnatural for combat. Turned me off from buying the game. Bought it later on and it played much better than I thought. Still not great, but fun.
@@DiamondDust132 I just played this and I agree the control scheme is broken. The game is extremely linear plus you have God like AI I don't normally quit games but I couldn't finish it. I wasn't having fun with it. Much better action games out there.
You're surprisingly underappreciated
I'd say underrated
Well, the lad did got mentioned on EmpLemon's video on thumbnails. But then again, that guy probably knows even more underrated folks.
Keanu?? You are breathtaking!
@@sebastiangonzales46 My comment originally said underrated but I wanted it to match up with the video title.
I read this in Keanu Reeves cyberpunk voice
Movie licenses turned into obscure PS2 games would make a great future series dude, there's tons of the things.
Unfortunately there's no Doc Hollywood PS2 game :(
Doc Hollywood is one thing but Secret of My Success is a point and click waiting to happen
Dude I always find you in the most unexpected places around RUclips
@@Nobody-hc2bo I've seen him in more unexpected comment sections trust me
How about that cancelled Dirty Harry game?
Hello you!
The fighting mechanics were way ahead of it's time,
How so?
@Jumbo Jango I guess, but without the amazing flow arkham has, and the challenge of keeping your combos both going and varied, it seems like it would get boring really quickly.
But then there is DMC1 3 years prior which was pretty advance at the time and then DMC3 a year later blew EVERYTHING during of that era in term of combat (Yes, even GoW 1 and 2.)
@@Sophie_the_Sapphic Well, you got the mother of baddass combat called DMC3 to thanks for that (Surprisingly released a year later of Rise of Honor which became the template for all of the future action game including GoW, Bayonetta, Arkham and more.)
@@zhaoyun255 I love dmc 3 it's definitely a very influential game, I mean hell it basically created its own subgenre. But to say "it's the template for all future action games" is absolutely ludicrous, and I'd love to see your justification for it. But at the very least you have to agree that it wasn't an influence on God Of War since they came out the year.
Arkham’s combat took so much from this game. Fighting enemy to enemy seamlessly, slow motion final kicks & punches. One of the most underrated games of the PS2 era.
It literally didn’t
@@taew7547 “It literally didn’t” 🤓🤓🤓
slow motion move has been there since ps2 era not from this game, you know nothing, just matchology 🤦♂️
@@thomasu_design8376 hes basically talking, arkham combat are ripoff from jetli games that's all, why he doesn't talking about yakuza games does that too, ninja turtle marvel and etc had that too since ps2 era, its just he acknowledge so many games that uses this combat since day 1
I remember my mother getting this for me along with the PS2 when I was younger, being young I had no idea what to do and used to die constantly on one specific mission. A couple of years down the line I was able to find my old copy of the game and bought a PS2 and fired it up and played it again, still challenging but in a good way. One of my favorite games, it has a special place in my heart.
Me and my cousin used to take turns playing this when we was kids hes passed away sense then I miss him a lot
@CRIMNALSNEAK I agree with everything you’ve said, and I feel the same for other games like Chow Yun-Fat’s Stranglehold and Jackie Chan’s Stuntmaster. Metacritic should feel ashamed of their rating system, a lot of people sadly look at ratings before giving the game a chance and automatically think it’s a bad - while it’s a gem and so much more. I felt like I really was in a movie, it was awesome and will always be!
@@liftedlegend710 I’m sorry for you loss, sending my condolences. Must’ve had fun times playing this
I bet it was the fight in the pool where the guy keeps on drowning you
@@spiceweasel YES
I was never a fan of analog stick combat in games but this game has a special place in my heart. Played this alot as a kid.
0:52 okay holy shit you just drowned that guy as a regular combat move, this is the best game you've ever covered.
In the kitchen with killer cooks you can press their face on the flat top grill burning their face, hearing their screams of agony as they frantically tap the counter top in pain while their health whittles down to nothing
Yoshi you could whack people with a peking duck 😂
This was no ordinary combat move, if I recall correctly, that dude was a boss character and drowning him was a big part of the fight
@@Pertruabo the deadliest weapon of all, lmao
Honestly the guy who changes his Patreon name to different sentences about Minimme is worth sitting through the Patreon scroll at the end lmao
Also gotta appreciate the dude that's been using Test Drive Unlimited 2 as his name for like a full year now, lmao
I didn't realize this was a thing. I need to go through all his old videos again
Even better, True Crime.
Dude I still play this game from time to time.
Absolute hidden gem.
The twins laugh still haunts me
Seth Edwards the docks battle was one of the best level in video game
@matt so your a Xbox fanboy
@matt I'm my opinion of course it is a bad to decent at best console with appalling bad exclusives and gave things that plague the modern gaming market were giving the push from Microsoft a company who buys and ruins other companies
Out of the like 4 or 5 controllers across all consoles from the broken duke to the broken elite the xbox360 1is really exceptional incredible
@matt even when PlayStation destroys average PC's and xbox with ps5 your missing out on another world I played both and have good memories with both
When I was a kid my dad said Jet Li went to his job and so I asked if Jet Li can sign my game and my dad too it to him to sign it and my dad took a pic with him. Last week I asked him if it was really Jet Li or just a Chinese guy who signed my game. He said it was a guy from China who went to his job and the dude played along with the joke😂
Lol that's cool
I’m dead affff
And that dude was Jackie Chan
@Shay Cormac I’m asian myself and I don’t think it’s racist.
@Shay Cormac nah I’m just not a sensitive little bitch that gets hurt by someone else’s words.
I remember playing this back in 2004. I still remember dropping an accidental f-bomb in front of my mom and getting my Playstation taken away for 2 weeks, and all I could think about was playing this game again.
Christ, 2 weeks? Did you literally grow up inside a church?
2 weeks for saying fuck 🤣 nah that's crazy , that's 3 days max
@@yellow_flash813 you guys are soo lucky if his momma was mine she would taken my playstation for life. god took it for years now...if i get to play again i gonna have to swear to not swear
I think the problem with Rise to Honor is it's terrible cover art. ive seen this game in stores many times and i always thought it's some crappy movie tie-in game.
Dirik619 It looks like a movie poster, but I like it. It would have helped if they had used a scene from the game instead.
Lol if they just turned them into cgi it would’ve made a world of difference
Back then? Idk my guy. The cover sold it for me because it's Jet Li
First of all nigga never disrespect like that or it's problems b
I think it was also just people not being willing to learn different controls.
"what a wimp."
*PROCEEDS TO YEET TRASHCAN*
Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster
Jet Li's Rise to Honor
Bruce Lee's Quest of the Dragon
Chow Yun Fat's Stranglehold
Now we need a Donnie Yen game.
With how popular Ip Man is, you'd think someone would have bought up the video game rights. Personally, I would have loved a Arkham-style Legend of the Fist game (it's basically a superhero movie anyway)
I totally forgot about Stranglehold....such an underrated game by Midway.
micheal j white game
Quest of the Dragon was horrible though, we need a better Bruce Lee game.
Donnie Yen's I WANT TO FIGHT 10
I don't know why's this game isn't popular, its actually has a good story, gameplay and unique combat style
Because it's render unnecessary when you got Yakuza with all that plus more
Played the demo for this countless times when I was younger, the boss guy's repeated laugh sound effect is stuck in my head forever.
For anyone interested in the right-stick combat system, Death By Degrees (PS2) uses similar controls.
that's another underappreciated game imo
The ps2 blade Game Also Had this
And grabbed by the ghoulies
MGS2 does it with the sword
Monster Hunter does right stick combat too
so this game wasn't a false memory. i loved playing the demo(I was too poor to afford actual games)of this as a kid .
Ps2 games were only like 20 dollars back then
Lmaoooo I played the demo all the time to
Omg, I also thought it was a false memory. The demo was sick
I have this in my house rn
Pick it up now if you have a working ps2. I still purchase games on ps2 cause didnt experience them as a kid. I just dont have as much free time as i did back then lol
Yesterday it was Raycevick's video on underappreciated games and now its your turn covering one of my favorite games on the PS2. Today it feels like Christmas so thanks Minimme and I'm just subbed to your channel.
loved this game as a kid and as a huge fan of martial arts movies, Jet Li, and beat em ups it hit that perfect combo of them all and am i the only person that appreciates a fun short game, not everything has to be 1000 hours long especially current games coming out now
You're not wrong stretching out a short but impactful game over multiple weeks is much more satisfying than drilling into a super long game
You know what man, this was one of my favorite games to play as a kid. I loved the fighting mechanics and i have nothing but great memories of this game. I haven't played it since i was a little kid but this makes me wanna fire up the emulator and do a play through again. I'm glad someone made a video on this because you're damn right, this game is extremely under rated. No one ever talks about this game, i'd lose my shit if they decided to remaster this.
"what is with video games and sewers?"
Well, they are closed spaces and are way easier to render than rooftop or street sections... And its much easier to load the next area when its hidden by a sewer curve.
Literally just remembered about this game a couple of days ago. Literally one of the first games I ever played. Still have it to this day as well as my PS2. Probably will whip the bad boi out and feel the nostalgia!
I remember pre ordering this and getting it 2 days before release date, I was chuffed as anything, man im old... i had every jet li film on dvd before the game came out so looked forward to it and remember enjoying it, your video in my recommended bought back memories, id replay it if i knew where to get roms these days!
My mom got me this game for my birthday when I was 9 years old. Now I’m 23 and I believe it’s still one of the best games ever
This game was my childhood. It was so good and ahead of it's time. They just don't make em like this anymore.
I remember when all I had to judge a game was the pictures on the back of the case...good ole days
@bemy guest I never had those luxuries when I was young. Never lived in America all my life.
@Dnomyar Akunawik I lived on a island when I was small, those things were few and far between.
@Ijustcametogetsomethingtoeat Remember when that Viewtiful Joe 2 demo disc wiped tons of PS2 memory cards? I remember. Lost everything on my memory card, and didn't know because I didn't play for a few days after trying it. Lost my Dot.hack save, my completed GTA:SA file, and several completed Dynasty Warriors game files.
I didn't use demo discs after that.
I played that.
It has a special place in my heart... going all out depleting all of your red bar on 3 guys.
Only to take more that 5 min on the twin boss.
Lmao hated the twins. Hated the drunk guy even more tho.
Bro, I legit LOVED this game as a kid. This brings me memories
This the og Sleeping Dogs.
The True Crime games are.
@@hemanownsyou True crime was more focused on gunplay, though yes, Sleeping Dogs was originally developed as True Crime Hong Kong.
And sadly like sleeping dogs it will never get a follow-up most likely.
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Was that the game that had a flaw/ bug in the Xbox version that made a certain boss unbeatable and therefore the game was basically useless unwinnable. Cuz I totally get it.
Yesssssssssssss
I spent so many hours playing this game as a kid. Going back thru with different outfits and such. Definitely underappreciated. I haven't played a game since that comes close to it's style of combat so it has a very unique feel.
I see this games as the spiritual successor of Jackie Chan Stuntmaster, and the spiritual predecessor of Sleeping Dogs
Yes your right ! I always saw this as a spiritual successor of Jackie chans stuntmaster
Catch if you caaaaan. Catch me if you caaaannn. Lol
I never heard of this game but watched the video upon appearing in my suggested videos simply because I wanted a game that represent martial arts actors like Jackie Chan Stuntmaster.
Literally !!!! I always thought of this as the sequel to Jackie chan Stuntmaster since we never got another one
You got a bingo exactly my sentiment
Ps1 - Stunt Master
ps2 - Rise of Honor
ps3 - Sleeping Dogs (imo the hero should have been donnie yen)
note : And the NES Kung fu Master the ancient prequel
This is still one of my favorite games. It really is a well-crafted game and the combat system is original and flows so well. Being a huge Jet Li, fan I love seeing the Easter eggs and references to his films and I love that Corey Yuen and several of my favorite stuntmen were involved in the mocap work.
Reminds me of another somewhat underrated game, Sleeping Dogs
Really wish it got a sequel
Nicholas M they’re making a Sleeping Dogs film starring Donnie Yen
@@thecliffracer Technically there was, it was an awful F2P game where they promised multiplayer and then launched it with a psuedo multiplayer where you attack someone's base and do the same, ala, Let it Die style, but no actual multiplayer. Sleeping Dogs was a fucking masterpiece and the DLC was amazing. SD was the only video game to make me get teary eyed and fill me with rage against a fake character. It was like SR2 Carlos but even more heart breaking.
Why we never got an actual sequel I'll never know.
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 I doubt that's still happening. Donnie Yen talked about it the last time in early 2018, since then there hasn't been any new news on it.
@Tommy Kavanaugh That's what I loved about it. It still felt like a True Crime game.
I loved this game as a kid especially the part by the tunnel & the enemies was pulling up on motorcycles & using Jet Li you could side kick em off the bike was so satisfying to me 😂
I remember playing a demo of this thinking it'd be a joke but this game seriously was one of the best martial arts game in the PS2 era
Something thats interesting to me about Rise to Honor is it’s cinematic elements weren’t received well by my friends growing up. I remember kids in my class saying “that game has too many cutscenes”. Which bummed me out cause I loved the cutscenes. I also had multiple friends who religiously skipped every cutscene for any game.
So I don’t know maybe Rise to Honor was slightly ahead of it’s time in that respect.
The game is charming though sometimes. The fight in the street with the bus is a part I remember fondly. The washed out ps2 colors vibe worked for that game, and it’s environments are cool to look at I think.
I bought Metal Gear Solid 2 from a friend for 10$ because of that reason. He wanted a straight go shoot enemies kind of game. He was disappointed when you had to think and watch tons of cutscenes. I don't even think he got past the tanker at the start
that:s conformation bias.
dimsumboy22 I think anecdotal evidence is applies more for what I said. So ya know take it with a grain of salt and what not
Brice Murrie lol yes exactly. A lot of my friends were like that growing up. Some people just want all action, which is totally fine. Different strokes i guess. At least you got one of the best mgs games out of it though
that's a common issue. that was a time when a lot of people used to play games for only timepass and don't really pay attention to the story. I remember a lot of my friends (including me) used to just skip cutscenes to continue the gameplay, because it was boring for us Lol (not to mention we weren't really flushed out in english language, so we always found the dialogues either boring or funny) but we have passed that time, now we live in a era where cinematic games reigns the industry. people have changed over the years, and now they appreciate these kind of games
Using the right stick to attack enemies reminds me of Grabbed by the Ghoulies. That just got me thinking... could that game be on the table for you? That’s a game I believe is very underrated game.
I remember only ever playing the demo for Ghoulies on a PS Magazine compilation disc.
Dr. Spog Zallagi ghoulies was Xbox exclusive
I remember that game too 😂😂 Good ol days
This game is completely underated. I played the Demo and was hooked
This game hands down was one my favorite ps2 games definitely a slepted on game this was made 3 years after Jet li The One
The boss fights might be frustrating, but so rewarding when either you style on them or brute force it.
No actually boss fights are generally easy
I had the demo disc with this game. I must've played it like 50 times. I've never played the full game.
Same
Yoo sameee
Rise to honor is one of best ps2 games i ever played , the only problem is the fighting mechanic which is really hard , but its a fun games overall and my childhood memories.
Please review dead to rights , its underrated games too
Dead to Rights is to rough for me. I have Xbox version. I prefer True Crime Streets of LA to that. Much better.
Dead to rights was amazing. loved that game
You should cover the saboteur or Turing point fall of liberty. They both seem up your alley
Saboteur was amazing,
however TP: Fall of Liberty was absolute trash. Even for its time and setting - except an interesting idea (not even properly executed) the game as a whole i just plain bad.
Just looking at this game right now reminds me of mostly one thing. The kitchen in which you could shove enemies faces on fiery hell. That was the shit. The interaction with the environment in this game was good af.
5:47 haha very subtle Sony! But yeah, this game looks pretty interesting, next time I’m at my local game store I’ll see if they have it!
I wish I was Jet Li. I, too, would ask to be in a video game. But only if Vin Diesel skateboards and Tony Hawk is the muscle in the game
Analog controlled fighting was so insanely well developed in this game it's unreal
0:56 holy freak look at that graphics!
It look blurry and shit on an actual ps2 tho
Gameplay > graphics
Man, I saw your Cars video and now after viewing multiple videos I shall subscribe. You found somethin no one else was doing and you ran with it! Hope you're doing well man :)
I love Jet Li movies as a kid. So when this game came out, I was so hyped about it. And it didn't disappoint. Nostalgic
The amount of nostalgia this brings me(: loved this game back on the ps2😭❤️
This game was one of my favourite game..man i miss those ps2 golden times.💔
Didn’t expect Trap Lord Ross to be watching lol
I used to rent this all the time….. every now and then it pops into my head and I remember how epic I remember it being. Never beat it, just loved the tone and atmosphere of those grimey first few missions… played them over and over
No matter how frustrating or confusing this game is, I love it more than any game I have ever played on the ps2, and the fact it had the most satisfying combat in it made me be into it even more.
I freaking loved this game, I was really into anything with martial arts back when I was in high school so this and True Crime were my time killers back then
Loved this game and rented it a few times, but got stuck at an incredibly difficult boss fight.
6:50
*Grabs trashcan*
*Throw immediately*
*Cut into Ads*
This game was the first I ever played as a kid! I was 4 when it came out and I fucking loved it. I’m replaying it again and I’m on the level towards the end that you said I would have to spam that wall jump. I beat the game as a kid and when you said that I had no idea how I passed that part as a 4 year old. LOL let alone some of the others right before that mission. This is one of the best analyses I’ve ever seen and it’s 3y ago. I’m excited to hear what other awesome games you’ve talked about 🙏 keep up the good work man thanks a bunch
I remember playing this when I was growing up but as I never knew anyone who had played it or even knew it existed i never talked about it. And i remember enjoying my time with it. Glad you talked about it.
I remember this,I didn't play the whole thing,but me and my brother played it,I remember really loving it,I remember lording over my brother that I beat the drunken bar boss fight. It was such a great game for ps2.
Edit:we never finished it as we borrowed it from a friend and the first shootout I always found difficult,I was 8 or 9 at the time
Most frustrating yet satisfying boss fight ever
Man This Game Was Way Ahead of it's Time, I Remember When it First Came Out I Immediately Bought it Because I Thought I Was buying A Game That is Close Enough To The Jackie Chan Game in PS1 (I Loved it) But man I Was Surprised By How Good the Graphics Are And Till This Day I Wish Any Gaming Company Would Adopt The Mechanics of This Game (FightingWise) And Improving it Just A little, The Usage of The Sticks To Fight Was (At least To Me) Unheard of And I Thought I Would hate it But I Was Loving Every Second of Playing This Game, Yes it's Indeed Criminally Underrated .
I absolutely ADORED this game as a kid. The intense stick flicking combat and gunfights were insane and the set pieces were top notch. And the boss fights were badass. Criminally underrated game during the PS2 golden days IMO.
Ngl I thought it was funny as hell that as soon as that garbage can hit his head at 6:51 it then immediatly went straight to an ad.
Yeah, had me laughing too. The enemy seem a regular person then BAM!!
This game was so clean to me, the whole time I played this game as a kid I couldn’t get over how good the graphics looked, it felt like I was playing in a movie, some where really tough but I truly enjoyed this game.
This stuff inspires the videos I create. I love reviewing the forgotten and underappreciated!
Check Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain for Nintendo DS.
Try Jackie Chan's underrated masterpiece Ps1 game "Jackie Chan Stuntmaster" .
That game is fun because of it's difficulty. It's not polished as Rise to Honor but it has it's own charms, it's filled with Jackie Chan's humor. If you are really good you could beat it at 3 hours not including the secret level.
The gameplay is simple it's a beat em up platformer. The platforming difficulties is where it gets difficult and annoying because every level has a different environment than the other and you have to parkour differently so you have to improve yourself throughout the game. Oh and the ost is pretty good too.
If beat em up games had a Dark Souls like game, Jackie Chan Stuntmaster is the one. It has no tutorial whatsoever, just survive and save your grandpa, it has some ridiculous annoying bosses and you will die a lot.
Na this big fax. Stunt master is super under appreciated game.
THIS!!! The game is lit af
I think Stuntmaster is literally in all greatest PS1 game list... not really under apprecitaed tho...
Yup bloody loved it ...
I was looking at the price for the game. It's expensive as hell. I'll get it one day
I remember my dad playing this game every time when he came back home after work when I was like 6. This and Max Payne 2 as well. The only games besides pro evolution 4 and tekken 4 that he would play. And it was exciting, I thought it was an awesome game to watch at, just like a movie.
What about resident evil 4 , stranger?
@@themerchant4776 At the time in 2004 I think we have bought the first ps2. So we didn't have many games back then. Once I started to have more and more games I was starting playing more and my dad was less interested in longer games, and only focused on the coop games (football or fighting games like Tekken or Mortal Kombat). But it was cool to see him play Rise of Honor and Max Payne, they had cool stories and fun to watch.
I tried to make him play Red Dead Redemption 2 last year since he is a spaghetti western fan, but with age he kinda lost the will to get into videogames except for Pes, which I still play with him when I have the opportunity.
Never played any Resident Evil. I rarely had horror games. But I played some great ones, like Dead Space and Until Dawn.
@@MastroGillord34 hahaha...
U should try resident evil...trust me...You're losing a life...stranger...
Wanna know something funny, back when I first came across the trailer for it as a teenager, at first I thought it was a trailer for a Jet Li movie I never heard of before. I still remember the times I struggled with this game but despite this I managed to beat it and it’s a really fun game. BTW, Rise to Honor deserves a remaster and needs to be available on PlayStation Store
Hands Down One Of My Favorite PS2 Games Ever Alongside True Crimes (NYC), Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 3 ,GTA lll , The Warriors , The Punisher and Kingdom Hearts
Reverse Order Tho
This has got to be one of the most random shit I have ever came across in my RUclips recommendation lmao
Looks like True Crime: Streets of LA
Rise to Honor crawled so Stranglehold can walk so Sleeping Dogs can run.
But imo both those games are better than sleeping dogs. Sleeping dogs seem like a slightly upgraded true crime.
@@LitGaming999 that's because it was originally supposed to be a True Crime game
I was a kid when Jet Li was at the peak of his career. With movies like Kiss of the Dragon and such (great movie). So obviously when he featured in a game, it was a no brainer to pick it up and did not regret it. You FELT like Jet Li. Criminally underrated. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was my favorite game when I was a kid. I played this hundreds of times. It really was underrated. It reminds me of pieces from his black mask movie. His speed is out of this world.
oh hell yeah this was my game back in the day
I remember beating goons with a whole chicken in the kitchen in this game
Did you burn their face on the grill?
The controls for this game were so innovative, it was so amazing, just describing it doesn’t do the game any justice at all. It felt so synergistic the ps2 controller with the rumble and these innovative controls to use the right joystick for combat was truly revolutionary. I remember this game being on a ps2 demo disc I had when I was a kid, I replayed that demo so many times.
You brought back nightmares of that pool guy.. the amount of time it took me to figure out to drown him as a kid..
Still hate that man to this day lol he almost made me snap the disc!
Didn't even know this existed
Complete the game 4 times it's a good game if u like fighting games like my self
"What's with videogames and sewers?" *Civvie's sewer count ding*
I see, you're a man of great culture aswell .
My man
I had this game as a kid. Dude I cried when his cousin gets killed lol.
This is one of those games I never beat, I made it to the final boss but he kept beating me no matter what I did, I think you have to make sure one of your friends doesn't fall from the roof where you're fighting.
You did Jet dirty at 1:05 picking a picture where the poor bastard is all outta' lip balm
Saying "I wont spoil the twist" is in fact basically "spoiling the twist."
Not 100%, but yeah, it spoils that there is a twist.
So I Guess We Just Going To Ignore That Tony Hawk and Pierce Bronson in the title over ? 😂🤣
Remember when game devs had only ONE shot to make a game as perfect as they can?
LOL nowadays they rely on the internet and live updates to the point where it feels like they are half assing it instead of being more careful.
Same goes with graphics and stuff. Nowadays better graphic cards doesn't mean better graphics imo. It feels more like that it gives game devs more room for mistakes and less optimizing since they think "Ohhhh no worries, we have better graphic cards"
True, but that's also because old AAA games took like 2 years to make on PS2, now they have to spend atleast 4 years on a game for it to not be shit(on a technical level), because the bar gets raised for gameplay and graphics, mo-capping and voice acting. They may have to update their old game engines, switch to a better one or make a new one from scratch.
They have to half ass it and rely on patches and updates if they want to release more than 1 game a console generation. They have to do more with games to justify buying a whole new system to see why it's better than what the last one could do, which means spending more time pushing the hardware with better looking games.
Look at RDR2. 8 years of development. TLOU2 probably took almost the entire life cycle of the PS4, GTA 5 took like 5 years to come out after GTA 4.
Hopefully with PS5 and XSX, those times might shrink a moderately, since they seem powerful enough to brute force great results out of the box , saving dev time on optimizing to mitigate bottlenecks, squashing bugs and programming around hardware limitations.
I miss this era
Wouldn't surprise me if they simply start going back to old stuff and simply tweaking it to perfection. Don't be shocked to see old systems with actual hardware make a comeback either with boasts in performance and modern bells and whistles. Its bound to happen.
You naming all those names in appreciation gave me anxiety but you are still appreciated
I loved the actual shit out of this game. Playing as a cooked Turkey kicking your enemies was definitely something else as a kid.
Can you talk about “Matrix Path of Neo” 🙏🏽
That game was fucking insane
That game was cool, but the previous one left me expecting more. "Enter The Matrix"
Or its precursor, "Enter the Matrix". It was a flawed and occasionally annoying title which Path of Neo improved in pretty much every way, but it still had a lot of cool ideas.
I loved that game, it was really unfinished but ahead of its time in some areas (Havoc engine breakable environments, reflections on shiny surfaces,etc...)
FIRST
How the hell
@@poy110 Many ways.
This game is good. Gave me quite the rage when I was 8 years old, but whenever I got through an obstacle, felt more glorious than any Souls boss I've defeated.
I was 8 too bro😂 i feel you ! The twin boss made me rage & the one where your in the bar & gotta drown the guy
I can't remember how many times i've completed this game.. back then really never care about framerates and graphic and simply just adore jet lit and his martial arts. I played the jackie chan's game as well
Rise to Honor is one of my favorite video games! I played some of it!