If you find Kung Fu fighting a "little bit frightening", then best get ready to hide behind the sofa when you fire up your X-Box and insert the Deadly Alliance disc. It's seriously gory with an 18 certificate to prove it. As you hack, slash, punch and splinter your way through multiple opponents, the fighting ring begins to look like an abattoir crossed with an operating theatre, such are the pools of blood shed.
Of course, it doesn't look very real as there's a cartoon style to the whole over-the-top gore shebang - but even so, you'll squirm slightly the first time your fighter sticks his sword fully into an opponent's stomach and leaves it embedded there, blood spurting from the wound! And let's not even go into the special finishing moves, which include ripping multiple organs out...
Aside from the bloodlust, Deadly Alliance's big feature is of course the weaponry you can wield. It's not all hand to hand fighting as with Dead or Alive. In fact, each fighter has three styles of combat (sorry, kombat) to pick from, two unarmed martial arts and one weapon style.



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