Wandering the wastes of a post-apocalyptic landscape, no longer demarcated by county or city limits, I fought Kenshiro through packs of thugs, zealot gangs and imperial guards.

Bursting off the page and out of obscurity

You are already dead.  If you are familiar with the manga or anime series Fist of the North Star, then you know how often that phrase was uttered by the main character Kenshiro.  While several video games have been created based on the series, only a few made it to the States.

Fist of the North Star is an easy sell, especially as a game. Main-man Kenshiro punches men so hard that they literally explode, and the goofy post-apocalypse world is packed with crazy characters, like burly knuckleheads with pigtails.

+ As ridiculous as its source material in all the right ways

- Stiff, slow, and same-y combat; worthless if you're not an über-fan, - Crap level design, enemy A.I., and boss fights, ? Who's buying these games...and why?

Concept: Take a nearly forgotten anime and give it the Dynasty Warriors treatment Graphics: Koei must have glanced at the color spectrum and decided to stick with brown. Most of the backgrounds look like they were hit by the apocalypse Sound: The game allows you to listen to the original Japanese...

The ultraviolent manga series Fist Of The North Star is rightfully no stranger to videogame adaptation. It centers around Kenshiro, the 64th successor to a fictional branch of martial arts that can heal physical and psychological wounds, but is usually harnessed for its capability to explode...

Look, I'm not about to lie to anyone - I know little to nothing about the source material for Koei Tecmo's new platformer, beat ‘em up Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage . After playing it, I'm still not sure - I just know there's a lot of gruesome killing...by fingertips.

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage makes its way to western territories, bringing high caliber butt-kicking and intense shirt-ripping action to our pre-apocalyptic world! Can you handle the sheer amount of raw manly power contained within?

The ultraviolent manga series Fist of the North Star is rightfully no stranger to videogame adaptation. It centres on Kenshiro, the successor to a fictional branch of martial arts that can heal physical and psychological wounds.

Fist of the North Star is a love story. It's a love story between a man and his fists-fists that make people explode. Realizing it would be selfish to keep this love all to himself, he journeys into the world to share his exploding fists with whomever will have them.