Title: Supreme Warrior CD Released: 1995 Genre: Fighting Developer: Digital Pictures Publisher: Digital Pictures Regions: USA, UK Availability: Uncommon

Also known as Dai Bing. Also known as Ying Heung: The Supreme Warrior.

Yet another Full Motion Video release, Supreme Warrior is an intriguing experiment that simply doesn't work, though Digital Pictures certainly can't be faulted for trying something new with the tired fighting genre. Supreme Warrior features a first-person view of the action, rather than the standard side-by-side view of the 2-D Street Fighter games or the dynamic 3-D camera angles of Tekken. The footage for the game/movie was actually filmed in Hong Kong, using real martial artists. Similar to many of the low-budget "Kung Fu" movies that provided the inspiration, the “movie” portions of the game are mildly entertaining, though the acting is questionable and the voice dubbing is poor. Like all of the 32x CD games, the video quality is grainy, though the box boasts that the game has been “Digitally Remastered for 32x! 40% Larger Video, 25% Sharper Video, 8 Times More Colors” (over the standard Sega CD version.) Unfortunately, the game play itself is simply awful. The game rarely responds to your control pad inputs, resulting in matches that consist mainly of constant button mashing and not much else. The poor control and overall design renders the game nearly unplayable, and it will take quite a bit of practice (and luck) before you are able to win even one round of fighting. Avoid.