Afro Samurai: The Game Slashing Its Way Into Existence
This past weekend, a friend of mine and I ran around town just doing things. One of the things we did was a mandatory stop by Best Buy. After finding nothing in the video games section, I looked through the DVDs and came across Afro Samurai. We looked at it and discovered it featured the talents of Samuel L. Jackson and Ron Perlman, plus it seemed to feature incredible animation. We watched it and we were not disappointed in the least. In short, it was a great, kick-ass anime with an amazing hip-hop soundtrack by The RZA. However, I was disappointed that Samuel L. (as the Samurai) only had about a minute or two worth of dialogue throughout the entire anime, but perhaps that was a good thing as to exhibit that character's 'strength.' Here's a brief description of Afro Samurai:
The five-part anime series, now available on DVD in a "director's cut" package, features the voice of Samuel L. Jackson as both the Samurai and his spirited partner, on a vengeful quest to seek out the man who murdered his father. Life isn't easy for the Samurai. Along with a mighty sword, he also wields the "Number 2" headband, making him the second toughest man in the land. This brings plenty of competitors eager to take the headband, leading to spectacular battles of all kinds.
Anyways, GameDaily posted a story a little while ago announcing that an Afro Samurai based game was in the works by Namco-Bandai. If this indeed comes to pass, you can expect outlandish enemies (a cyborg-like, Darth Vaderish, samurai with a teddy bear's head for a mask/helmet, anyone?) with some amazing weaponry and some highly acrobatic sword action. If it's going to be anything like the anime, we could be in for a treat. Of course, any game based on that sort of property has the potential of being catastrophically shitty. Me? I'm holding out hope that this game will blow me away. We can expect to see the game in 2008 and could hear/see more details at this year's E3.
Afro Samurai: The Game announced! [GameDaily XL]
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Posted to Movies-DVDs, Video Games on 19 June 2007
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