Warriors Article Today's NY Post

[Marlboroprojects]

Nice article on the video game & The Warriors in general in today's NY Post:

[size=12px]'THE WARRIORS' COME OUT TO PLAY [/size]
By MAXINE SHEN
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October 18, 2005 -- WARRIORS ... Come out and play-i-ay ... One of the ultimate New York cult movies - "The Warriors" - is laying it down and cutting things up 26 years after its release. Recently, a director's cut was released on DVD, and today, a video game based on the gang adventure hits shelves.
Can you dig it? Can ... you ... dig it?!

Jean-Marie Whitley, who works at the sci-fi/comic store Forbidden Planet, certainly can.

"It's kind of an urban history to New Yorkers," she explains.

"If you have family that was raised in New York itself, it's part of your history. It's part of understanding what happened in the past, what your family was doing at your age - not necessarily being in a gang, but being around something like that, that atmosphere."

Set in the late '70s, "The Warriors" takes place over the course of one night, in a city overrun by colorful gangs, including the face-painted Baseball Furies and the overall and roller-skate-wearing Punks.

Falsely accused of killing the leader of the most powerful gang in New York during a city-wide truce, the Warriors must make their way from The Bronx to their home turf in Coney Island, all while being hunted by rival gangs.



"It's the first real gang movie, predating 'Scarface'" (1983), says 25-year-old fan Greg Wang of Manhattan, who likes the "grittiness and New York rage" of "The Warriors."

"We watched it once a week in college and dressed up as the Baseball Furies for Halloween. I don't want to ride the subway and hit people with bats, but it's absolutely a romanticized New York."

Fortunately, the mature-rated video game version of the movie lets you indulge any deeply repressed bat-swinging desires you may be harboring with a game controller instead of a bat.

A return to "brawlers" of the past, the game features lots of fist fighting, roundhouse kicks and clubbing people with wooden bats (no guns though). It also begins three months prior to the events of the film - which happens two-thirds of the way through the game - to set up the Warriors' backstory and give gamers a feel for what it was like to be in a gang in the late 1970s.

"I've been waiting for it to be a video game," says Wang, who was 12 when he first saw "The Warriors."

"The movie was like a video game [to begin with]: You're fighting your way through New York City to get to the main bad guy, so it has that kind of appeal for young kids watching it."

With Halloween right around the corner, Forbidden Planet's Whitley says there's no doubt that you'll be seeing lots of "Warriors"-inspired "gangs" roving the streets.

"People that have never heard about 'The Warriors' are starting to hear about it," Whitley says.

"Because the game and DVD are out, people are going to recognize it and are going to dress up like 'The Warriors,' just like two years ago, when people were dressing up as Neo and Trinity from 'The Matrix.'"

[Tantive7]

Yo Marlboro, 8)
I was there this morning..If you live in New York
Head Down to the Forbidden Planet,at 14 Street -Union Square
They are giving away all of these Cool Warriors Stickers,and some bunch of cool Warriors Promo stuff..
Too awesome, They have the game on sale if you think $49.00 is something?? even though it retails for $50.00 :-k
If your Wondering?? Hell Yeah,I cop it!!! :badgrin:
Just go down there and go to the Back end of the store,you can't miss the line!!
Let me know how you make out,
CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!!!!!!!!
WWWHHHOOOAAAAHHH!!!!!! :swan: :cleon: :ajax: :cochise: :snowball: :vermin: :thefox: :rembrandt:

[Marlboroprojects]

Well, I'm workin' in AC today so I don't know If they'll have anything left by the time I could get there. I already reserved the game with my man down here (and got the DVD) at gamestop. I'll have to hit him up for some more stuff when I pick it up later.

I saw in another post that this is the first time you got a game system. What did you get, PS2 or Xbox?

[Tantive7]

Marlboroprojects

I saw in another post that this is the first time you got a game system. What did you get, PS2 or Xbox?

You are correct, this is the first time I brought a Game System,and I chose The XBox,Hey they say it had Better Graffix's and I have a Large Television!!! Marlboro,My brother,I have a game to play Later Brother!!!

P.S. I'm keeping The Warriors Article from the Post too 8)

Cropsey:How come your so happy about all this?
Luther:I'm having a good time
Luther:LET'S GO!!!!