First Karateka Screenshots Unveiled

Karateka

Written Tuesday, October 02, 2012 By Richard Walker

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner is bringing his 1984 side-scrolling beat 'em up Karateka (announced back in February) to the PlayStation Network, meaning a return for the string of increasingly challenging one-on-one battles on your journey to rescue a kidnapped princess called Mariko from an evil warlord. Ah, classic.

The Batman animated series and X-Men comic book artist, Jeff Matsuda is providing the game's distinctive art style, while Grammy award-winning composer Christopher Tin is on soundtrack duties. He won his Grammy for the Civilisation IV soundtrack, in case you're wondering.

Karateka will be heading to PSN soon. A price and actual date has yet to be confirmed, but you can check out some of the first screenshots below. There's six to eyeball in the gallery.

User Comments

Forum Posts: 769	Comment #1 by johnnyhotrocks Tuesday, October 02, 2012 @ 08:16:40 AM	(0)
	oh boy the memories of the original on the amstard cpc 464. always a toss up which to play 1st this or ye ar kung fu or kung fu master. like the look of this remake hope it turns out to be a classic remake.

Forum Posts: 243	Comment #2 by Marisapo80 Tuesday, October 02, 2012 @ 09:02:20 AM	(1)
	Am I alone in thinking this looks a bit rubbish? Hmm... I think I'll have to play the demo first before I decide to purchase this...

Forum Posts: 255	Comment #3 by spoonman Tuesday, October 02, 2012 @ 01:42:43 PM	(0)
	I only ever played the original on the Famicom, but I'm sure it wasn't the best port. Mechner has done some grea things with POP so ill keep an open mind on this.

Forum Posts: 2321	Comment #4 by jqtaxpayer Tuesday, October 02, 2012 @ 02:30:30 PM	(0)
	Ah, memories. Used to play this one on the Apple II-C. Not sure it would hold up almost 30 years later, though; it was a very primitive game.

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Game Info

Developer: Liquid Entertainment Publisher: D3 Publisher Genre: Action Release: US: December 18, 2012 Europe: February 13, 2013
Resolution: 480p, 720p
Players: 1
ESRB: Teen

Collection:	7
Wishlist:	5

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