Until We Win: Hudson Hawk

Written by LordKat Saturday, 20 November 2010 22:54

(85 votes, average 4.68 out of 5)

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Comments (27)

11.21.2010 - 00:44 | Snorkie

I swear I saw this on your site a while back :D
Glad to finally see it on TGWTG :D

11.21.2010 - 01:03 | gbeaudette

Why would they make him so short with such a huge head?

I'm not sure of the draw of playing as Bruce Willis in a video game, but making him look shorter than Hello Kitty probably ruins it.

11.21.2010 - 01:09 | H2O

I wouldn't even have believed this game existed if I hadn't seen this video. Everything got a game on the NES back in the day.

11.21.2010 - 01:24 | Deimos1984rd

What is it with hard games having bad or no endings these days...it's like winning a battle with no reward.

11.21.2010 - 02:52 | Jenx

Kat, you played Yahtzee's Art of Theft game? I think it works (mostly) as a side scrolling stealth game, so I guess it's not that impossible of a task.

11.21.2010 - 03:16 | ThatSkye

I love your work LordKat, been a big fan right from the start, this was another great episode of UWW. Though that bit at the start was embarressingly unfunny and hard to watch, stick with what works!

11.21.2010 - 03:35 | atypicaloracle

While I do wonder if anyone else in the world concluded that Hudson Hawk was an okay movie (maybe I just forgot how bad it was?) this game is unmistakably crap. That stupid acceleration thing reminds me of another game, though, from the SNES, though. That one with the little bastard cat in the t-shirt with an exclamation point on it. I don't remember the title, I think it's... Bubsy? Bugsy? Bucky? None of the above? Whatever. That game was a sack of awful too.

11.21.2010 - 05:03 | FunkyM

Great vid LK.

And it was converted from the Amiga? Mayhaps it would be worth picking up an Amiga for to play some hard games on, yes?

11.21.2010 - 06:25 | Shinigami

So they made even shittier game from already shitty movie.

11.27.2010 - 13:11 | IchiGojita

OF COURSE!!!!!

DON'T YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SCIENCE?!?!?!?

11.21.2010 - 06:46 | moedrumstheface

Tank nuns?? Sounds more like The Adventures of Bruno Mattei

11.21.2010 - 06:58 | Pyarox

Thou shall walk in the sewer carrying a wheel barrel and drop bombs on everybody thou encounters

11.21.2010 - 07:21 | timotaka

Question: why do you play the Nintendo version when you yourself admit that the Amiga original is more fun?

11.21.2010 - 08:25 | 66Kamel66

never heard of this game but i have heard of the hudson gaming company and how they like to slap their name all over everything they do.

11.21.2010 - 09:06 | Kevin Holsinger - Wouldn't the dog and the ball...

...be connected to the "Bunny, ball-ball." gag from the movie?

11.21.2010 - 10:41 | Inkmonkey

Y'know, if you didn't outright state it, I would have never suspected that this was a Hudson Hawk game.

It actually looks like it wouldn't be so bad if the controls were tighter.

11.21.2010 - 14:00 | angel85

oh oh oh! In Metroid Zero Mission for the GBA, there is a level where Samus loses the power suit and has to stealth her way through a space pirate base to get a new one, that was done as a side scrolling platformer and it worked, I know the GBA is more powerful than the NES but I think that basic game structure could still work.

Of course, Metroid has excellent controls and ingenious level design, this game is an insult to video game physics and has an art style that looks like it was made in MS paint.

11.21.2010 - 16:31 | Vasioth

Wow... it's like an incredibly bad version of Metal Gear with a plot that's so off the bullshit meter, it's unreal.

Congratulations on actually managing to play through that piece of crap though.

11.21.2010 - 17:34 | m1rock

I got this game for my 10th birthday. Was a bigger disappointment then Ghostbusters and Days of Thunder.

11.22.2010 - 03:55 | hXcGeek - Kid

I had that game as a kid. I tricked another kid into trading it with me... unfortunately, I traded it for Friday The 13th. We were both trying to scam the other into taking our bad game.

But, sigh, why does no one else get the movie Hudson Hawk!? That movie was funny and stylish as hell. It was a whimsical, pulpy adventure, and it was meant to be watched with all disbelief casually discarded. I can imagine it's a frustrating watch for people who are trying to take is seriously, though.

11.22.2010 - 11:39 | Drake666

Beh. I always though that game would be GODDAMNED awful... it just look bad...

Anyway, loved the movie, liked the review. Thank you for showing us what the heck was that game about :)

11.22.2010 - 18:04 | rei doll

It deeply affends me when video game companys take a movie and create a crappy game that doesn't follow the movie at all. Are they retards or idiots?

12.08.2010 - 12:05 | magus10zeal - yeah..

Probably just included the castle because it has a cool name.

weak game ending...bleh

12.17.2010 - 18:29 | KingNothing

These enemies are some of the most random, unbelievable things I've ever heard of... and yet they exist. Wheelbarrow-pushing nuns who wield bombs? Tightrope-walking cats? You really must see them to believe them.

Funny story about this game. I was playing it on an emulator a few months ago, when my computer blue-screened, and would no longer start. I needed to reformat my whole damn hard-drive. This makes Hudson Hawk the worst, most evil and, uh... punishing, game I have ever played.

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