Xiaolin Showdown (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Xiaolin Showdown

Lead a kung fu monk and his three martial arts warriors on an action packed quest to search and protect the Shen Gong Wu. Omi, a Kung Fu monk leads three young dragons-in-training on their globetrotting…

46 14 November 2006

What Xiaolin Showdown is

Xiaolin Showdown is an adventure game developed by BottleRocket Entertainment and released in 2006. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lead a kung fu monk and his three martial arts warriors on an action packed quest to search and protect the Shen Gong Wu. Omi, a Kung Fu monk leads three young dragons-in-training on their globetrotting adventures to search and protect the Shen Gong Wu, mystical power objects that gives its possessor super powers, from a band of villains led by Evil Boy Genius Jack Spicer, his army of robots and an ancient witch Wuya. They fight for the Shen Gong Wu one showdown at a time, where the universe transforms itself into a mystical, hyper-reality world. Our heroes have to rely on their superb martial arts skills, wits, and the mystical powers of the Shen Gong Wu to fight evil. Based on the WB Kids…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Xiaolin Showdown holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 19 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Xiaolin Showdown launched on 14 November 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.

Xiaolin Showdown — frequently asked questions