One of the best film-to-game adaptations of all time is making a comeback, of sorts, this week. And if you’ve never played The Warriors, Rockstar Games’ interpretation of the cult classic, we can’t think of a much better time to dive into the classic brawler.
Video game adaptations of popular movies have never been very popular, with critics or longtime gamers, but that hasn’t stopped an avalanche of mediocre movie games from walking off the silver screen and onto the shelf at your local GameStop over the last two decades. As such, it falls on us to highlight those rare occasions when a good movie-based game is available for purchase. Thankfully, Rockstar Games’ adaptation of The Warriors fits the bill. And it’s finally available on PlayStation 4, more than two years after Sony’s latest console hit the market.
According to the PSN listing, the latest Warriors port includes support for all of the functionality players have come to expect from Sony’s latest console, including Trophies, Shareplay and Remote Play. In-game accomplishments will be represented in players’ social streams and The Warriors even includes Second Screen support for the PS Vita and PlayStation app. Don’t go in expecting any HD textures, though. Sony says The Warriors, which is currently $14.99, will be “up-rendered” to 1080p.
From what we can tell, The Warriors is being re-released exclusively as a digital download. That isn’t much of a shock, considering Rockstar can’t possibly stand to make much cash from physical copies of the game, but what might surprise some fans of the original is that The Warriors appears to be exclusive to the PlayStation ecosystem at this point. A search of the Xbox Store doesn’t return results for Xbox 360 or One (besides CXTM’s terrible follow-up) while platform-compatible versions of The Warriors are currently available to PlayStation 3 , PS4 and Vita owners.
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