Reviews

Coming closely after the innovative Way Of The Exploding Fist, Melbourne House followed up with this scrolling beat 'em up.

Although in some respects an advance on the earlier game, with excellent animation, backgrounds and a variety of enemies, it's still somewhat less successful. The problems are that there are comparatively few moves available to you, and that where a single well-timed punch or kick would settle a bout in the earlier game, you're required to wear down your opponents with repeated hacking and slashing here.

All in all a bit of a mixed bag; it would probably have been a bit more successful without its more illustrious predecessor to compare to but with Fist already on the market it was rather superfluous.

1985 Melbourne House (UK)
by Stephen Cargill and Russell Comte

Fighting Warrior will be forever in the shadow of Fist. I can understand why, but in a way it seems somewhat unfair.
Despite being both beat-em-ups, they are different in style and play.
The action is taken in ancient Egypt and your opponents are all mythical creatures. Your task is to rescue your
beloved princess Thaya from the claws of an evil Pharoah.
The background scrools forward and backwards, while you take your way to the evil Pharoah's lair, unlike Fist where the fighting is done screen by screen. Other abilities include jumping and ducking from arrows and blasting hourglasses that give or take energy, amongst other things. Graphics and animation are all very well done, and I specialy enjoy the final sequence. The background could be better but its okay. The only letdown are the fewer tricks you can perform, basically three blows. Still a fantastic game with an excelent athmosphere, well worth the effort of playing all the way through.

At first I didn't really like this, then I started to get into it, it's not bad but it feels so limited, I can pretty much spam one move to beat my opponent which is a bit boring. The graphics are very nice but the gameplay is a bit on the downside.

Appealing but rather dull and hard beat'em up with an original setting.

Dire beat 'em up, with no redeeming feature.

Good for those that like the classic fights 1 versus 1 with sticks and swords...
I like it, but it was not my favourite of this kind ( Barbarian....). Not so bad, not so good.

Interesting graphics and movement, the final of the game deserves.

Pretty average fighting game really. Doesn't stand out but at least it can be a bit enjoyable, I just found the fighting to be a bit of a pain and jumping over arrows to be a hassle, and trying to avoid the arrows makes you vulnerable to enemy strikes anyway. Also the opponent is quite stupid in that he'll just duck or jump and make it much easier for you to hit him. I found this good for two rounds and then you'll be bored of it. I guess I'll never be cut out to be a Fighting Warrior then.

I remember it. Good points were a great variety of movements and its Correspondent graphics.




We can conclude, the displacement of the background could be much better (parallax) and this ends up being monotone in terms of color and variety
However, there is a hidden gem: one of the Best end-game animations ever. If only for that, it's worth to try to end the game

Fighting game with the original feature of taking place in ancient egypt. A warrior must rescue a kidnapped princess by fighting against all sorts of mythological demons and demigods.

Published by Melbourne House in 1985, it's inevitable its comparison with another fighting game by the same company in the same year: The Way of the Exploding Fist.

While Exploding Fist is the usual beat-em-up with a screen-by-screen progression, Fighting Warrior has a scrolling sequence with objects to pick up and arrows to avoid between fights. Besides, it has hardly half the movements, punches and kicks. The fights aren't so flowed and realistic and it lacks the epic sounds and tune of the Melbourne House classic.

Finally, good graphics and a great inlay by Steinar Lund.

true that this is not a historical or wonderful game but the creatures are well displayed (although with problems in the printing -not like that in the start screen, by the way-). But above all do not miss the final animation (when you success, that is)

Terrible scrolling, terrible speed, terrible game. No graphics can save this. It is just poor.