NWR writes: "The only redeeming stylus control involves the use of chi powers. After completing a certain number of stages you unlock the ability to perform special moves. These moves are performed by drawing a specific symbol on the screen. Some are quite intricate, so they can take more than a few strokes. Mastering the symbols rewards you with fancier moves that do more damage.
All gripes aside, Legendary Warriors is a nicely formed package that does a good job of continuing the movie's story. If you're a fan of the movie you will definitely get a kick out of this. Who couldn't use a bit more panda?"
The Gamers Temple writes: "I'll get this out of the way now - I never got around to watching Kung Fu Panda - the film that this game is based on. A new computer animated film with talking animals seems to come out every other weekend, so I never felt the need to dedicate the 90 minutes needed to watching something I've almost assuredly seen dozens of times before. That shouldn't matter, though; we are only talking about the game here.
Sadly, the game isn't all that great. It does have a somewhat familiar style of play, one that I've loved in the past, but doing the same thing over and over, coupled with completely obtuse and unresponsive Wii controls, has the game limping to the finish line. You spend most of the time in Legendary Warriors fighting wave after wave of enemies in relatively small arenas with uninspired boss battles topping off the action. Fans of the Power Stone series will feel right at home here, but unlike the one-on-one battles from that series, Legendary Warriors takes a beat 'em up approach. This makes the game feel like a 3D version of classic arcade titles like Turtles in Time, the Simpsons and X-Men. In one paragraph, I've managed to mention four of my favorite games ever, so a mix of their mechanics must be awesome, right?"
WP writes: "Movie tie-in titles are lately spawning faux sequels, what I call the home video tie-in titles. These games are scheduled to hit the street around the same day the movies become available to rent or purchase, just as their predecessors were timed to coincide with theatrical releases. This is the case with Kung Fu: Panda Legendary Warriors, and the results of the effort fit what you'd expect for a game designed as part of the marketing campaign behind the DVD release of a family blockbuster film. The first wave of Kung Fu Panda games have fared better with critics than most tie-in games, but Legendary Warriors is not good, and it is overall worse than the original game released last summer."
Gaming Nexus writes: "Here's a quick quiz for you: what has the potential to be even worse than a kid's movie tie-in game? Give up? Well, the answer is "yet another game based on the same movie, released half a year later." Of course, the opposite could also be true if the intervening six months was used to add depth and innovative features to the original game.
Sadly, though, such is not the case with Activision's second attempt at a game based on Dreamwork's Kung Fu Panda movie. Kung Fu Panda Legendary Warriors takes everything that was good about the original game, sparse as that pantry may be, and tosses it out, leaving only bad animation and bad voiceovers in the completely unentertaining cut scenes that the player(s) are forced to endure in their entirety between rounds of equally uninspired fighting. On the positive side, the game now supports up to four players in free-for-all or team versus modes."
