Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The epic story has been split up in three parts, one for each character. The game mimics the film's famous martial arts, based on the Wudan fighting style, with a set of basic attacks, attack combos and…

54 9 October 2003

What Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an adventure game developed by Bergsala Lightweight and released in 2003. It was published by ESP. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The epic story has been split up in three parts, one for each character. The game mimics the film's famous martial arts, based on the Wudan fighting style, with a set of basic attacks, attack combos and special moves, combined with defensive actions such as basic blocking, combo blocking and evasion. While fighting, the characters learn new moves, collect items and earn rewards. Skills are improved according to your fighting style. Using specific attacks (e.g. unarmed) boosts the related skills, which can be leveled up.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon series

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the second of 2 entries we hold in the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon series. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

See all 2 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon games in release order →

How it was received

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon launched on 9 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Jak II and SSX 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Jak II, SSX 3.

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