Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

aka: Dragon: A História de Bruce Lee
Moby ID: 10001
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a action/fighting game in which you play Bruce Lee, the infamous martial arts master.

As you go through the different levels, the game follows the format of the 1993 Universal movie of the same name, but is not identical to it.

As Bruce Lee, you can perform a wide variety of high-flying martial arts moves, roundhouse kicks, flying kicks, flying chops and throws. Defeat a multitude of new opponents and build up your Chi in order to gain special abilities and weapons.

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Average score: 68% (based on 37 ratings)

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Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 22 ratings with 1 reviews)

With Bruce Lee, you'd think it'd be a good game!

The Good
The background is very colourful and attractive, and there's some nice parallax-scrolling for the foreground. The fighter characters, although flat 2D sprites, are huge and colourful, and look reasonably good. When they move, there are a respectable number of animation frames; the game may not rival modern consoles, but for a mid-90s machine these characters actually look pretty decent!

The Bad
The two fighter characters jump onto the screen and the action begins. Ah, let's see: 'C' for kicks, 'B' for punches, and 'A' is for... oh, both hard punches AND hard kicks, but you have to use the 'Option' button to toggle between the two. Er, that's awkward. Maybe I better get out a 6-button Pro Controller. Oh wait, this game was released before the Jaguar's Pro Controller, so doesn't take advantage of those extra buttons. Bummer.

The Bottom Line
I don't think it's nearly so bad as some people make it out to be. The difficulty should be more closely matched between the Battle and Story modes, but the biggest problem is more a problem with the Jaguar than the game: 3-button controllers simply don't well for fighting games. If you've never tried Dragon and can pick it up cheap, give it a try. Overall, I'd call Dragon a pretty average gaming experience.

Jaguar · by Bruce Clarke (60) · 2006

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Game added by Jeanne.

Genesis added by LepricahnsGold. SNES added by Goteki45.

Additional contributors: GenesisBR.

Game added August 15, 2003. Last modified February 22, 2023.