The Warriors review

Resurrecting old and much-loved movies and turning them into games is always going to be a dangerous business. You've got to please a lot of different sets of people at the same time; fans of the original film, fans of the genre of game and gamers who've never heard of the movie that need to be won over. As you'd expect from Rockstar, The Warriors manages to pull it off, delivering both a worthy and worthwhile homage to the 1979 classic and also a worthy and worthwhile videogame.

It's hard to fault the game's atmosphere thanks to spot-on period music, genuinely excellent voice acting in the cut-scenes and a highly detailed and dangerous New York City to gang bang your way around.  Heavily story-driven, most of the game is set prior to the film, and creatively involves you turning The Warriors from a little known gang to big players on the New York scene. The final third of the game lovingly recreates the events of the film.

Increasing your gang's rep is done in two main ways: plastering your tag around the city and fighting other gangs. You'll get to play as a number of different Warriors, depending on the mission goals. Mostly, Rembrandt plays as the gang's artist. The graffiti side of things works okay, where a massive amount of optional bonuses involve tagging.