The character's names sound like reject Wu Tang Clan members.

A game that truly reflects that fashion aesthetic of the early 2000's

Mom: We already have Voldo at home Voldo at home: *is Wulong Goth*

I remember the misleading commercial for this game trying too hard to make it look like Mortal Kombat. It was sinister n showed every jab landing like an X-ray move.

Fun Fact The People Who Made This Also Made Wrestlemania 21 On The Xbox

I want that Flophouse Files on the early Xbox fighters

I remember playing the Demo that came on the disk with Brute Force along with the Splintercell demo. Damn this brings me back!

Is that Jet Li as Divine Fist?

Man, this game at the time looked mad clean. Boy, did it age.

Dude, you gotta play Kabuki Warriors next. You wanna talk dumpster fire, unholy abominations on the Xbox, you NEED kabuki warriors.

I loved this game as a kid. My friends didn't share the same sentiment tho

This 100% feels like one of those games you see kids playing in early 2000's movies that don't actually know what a video game looks like

The best thing about this game is the music when you win a round. Nice jungle/drum and bass bit lol. Although it already got annoying after only hearing it like 4 times.

I love this game so much lol The music The rivalry between factions Even the cheesy designs

3:55 "The Fatalist"? So, he believes that human beings have no power to influence the outcome of their actions and that everything in life is predetermined? Pretty odd philosophy for a character in a fighting game, but hey, you do you, man.

I love how that big dude breaks his own neck before each fight. That guy is going to have some serious osteo problems later in life.

I feel like this game is what happens when a cheesy early-mid nineties fighting game gets stuck in the body of an early 2000s fighting game.

Why does Wulong Goth look like Zorak from Space Ghost?

I still remember buying this full price on launch day for $50 or $60 whatever games cost on the original Xbox back then. Boy oh boy was I not happy with this. I trusted it since it was John Tobias and thought "This dude made the original MK games with Ed Boon there's no way this can be bad!" If I could go back in time and change anything in my life it would be some of my bad game decisions. "Look here young Derek I know you really want Tao Feng but you really don't, buy any of those games over there by Atlus, literally any of them you'll have more fun."

These characters all look like they were designed by 12 year old in 1997

I think the character models are pretty decent/good for the era.

I remember G4 hyping up the limb damage system in this game enough to get me to rent it for the hell of it

I absolutely loved this game. Randomly thought about it tonight and now I’m here

This game is a lot of nostalgia for me. Played this with friends back when X-Box was a big deal. We'd get together and duke it out for a while. By the way, that "Johny Unitas" is modeled pretty clearly after Jet Li. :D

We need Kung Fu Chaos.

Poor John Tobias, he so desperately wanted to get away from making MK games.....only to make a terrible MK rip off.

I rented this when it came out and remember laughing at the juxtaposition of how soft the controls are to the small nuclear explosions that occur when you touch your opponent

I remember playing this for a while years ago on my original Xbox. Back then I actually thought it was fun. Even though the main bad guy basically looks like the Monarch from Venture Bros

This game was genuinely amazing when it came out.

I got this game back in 2003. Played on the first generation Xbox. Iconic. I was 8 years old.

The character models in the select screen spin so fast that I legit got dizzy watching haha.

I used to play this all of the time as a kid. Then I played it a few years back and wanted to go drop an Exile tombstone onto my younger self.

Ahh sad there’s no FanArt for these ladies. D: :(

EI Gigante studios? WCW 1991 reIeased him to produce this game, nice

holy crap these designs. I'm imagining a Crymetina Critiques and it ends with the tv getting busted like 9 times out of 10

I love how half way in this becomes a DSP video.

Anyone else get the feeling Jade Dragon was designed specifically to be played by Lexa Doig in a straight-to-video, live-action movie adaptation of this game?

It would have been interesting to see what improvements a sequel would have made.

I wish this games was back .

I only played the demo back in the day but I think you could use the environment, like swing on poles or something.

Another Gamestop shelf space taker, that I always stared at, and then looked at MGS2 instead. Thank you Matt.

I remember seeing the cover of this game and thinking "...nope."

I'm pretty sure Exile's voice actor is Shao Kahn. lol

I used to play this all the time as a kid, it was awesome

There is a final boss, you just need to beat quest mode with all characters in the faction, then you fight this guy with 2 swords in an ice cave, beat him and you unlock him (or maybe beat both quest factions before unlock?). Rented this game back in the day, beat it, never bought it. Played the demo a lot, it's fun, but not a lot of content.

I loved Tao Feng, it wasn't afraid to go full 3D and had some great Ideas. You could interact with the boards, it was awesome kicking and throwing opponents around an arcade. The battle Damage during fights was great, and the limb damage added more new nuisances to this game. I personally enjoyed it it more than most other fighting games because of it being fully 3D characters and boards, I was tired of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat's need to stay as Arcade 2D fighters. Tao Feng was a breath of fresh air, with a little more time and fleshed out characters and a better story I think it would be a contender. The Chi Bar wasn't spammable, you could use it once per fill and you had a choice between three abilities or healing your damaged limb. The get up feature in between fights showing your character hurt but still ready to fight was another nice touch. If anything I think this game was one of the games trying to advance tbe fighting game culture, while 2D Arcade fighters and the fans who love them hold it back. This game was not perfect by no means, but I think to drag it 20 years later is a bit of a disservice. At the end of the day if it wasn't the popular bandwagon games like Mortal Kombat or Tekken in the early 2000's nobody was giving it a chance. This game should have been built upon, negativity has way too much power in the entertainment industry👑

Oh man... this is a THROWBACK! I remember playing the demo for this way back when...

Tao Feng was a game I had that I always wondered why I had. Its far from good but god it was funny seeing you run through it Matt!

When Matt was going over their names, I realized that almost none of them actually have names at all. They're just... titles.

I actually found this for like $3, and it’s…a fun novelty to own. I think maaaaybe it could’ve worked as a series had they embraced their goofiness instead of taking it so seriously. I’m also glad to see that it’s not just me and a lot of the complaints I have also popped up for Matt. The last stage in quest mode is insanely hard, the camera switching is disorienting and the combat system is super shallow. I’m glad I have it but it’s definitely more of a novelty than a serious option.

At 18:12 the arcade cabinet in the back is "Womens Gymnastics Trivia" my FAVORITE classic arcade title!

I think they also made a WWF game on the xbox before calling it quits.

never played it, but something about this game is kinda charming lol

I'm not one to hyper focus on character assets but.. Fierce Tiger

I remember playing this game a lot when I was younger. Glad to see it getting more attention, even though I found it okay at best.

I have this game. I remember liking it. Haven't played it in years.

Why is Jade Dragon wearing a thong over and under her trousers?

Master Sage's alternate costume makes him look like Master Roshi.

So I just want to point out that Jade Dragon is wearing basically a bra as a top. That style is usually considered underwear back in the 1600s-1900s in China called a dudou.

You sound a lot like the dude from New Girl. You know, the guy who voiced Peter Parker in Spiderverse? That’s a compliment. Your voice is endearing.

The character names sound like they're named after their martial arts style or something

Forged by Revenge, Tempered by Fire, The Phoenix will Always burn bright!

I still remember getting this and being like THIS IS SO COOL.....for 10 min.

Master Sage looks like he's ripped off of Master Roshi, what with the bald head, beard, sunglasses and shield on his back.

I'm having difficulty to try to think about what Tao Feng is in Chinese language, actually.

that game looks like it might be fun. the numb limbs feature seems like it would be good to have in fighting games. Im really surprised that there isnt character endings.

14:25 Matt channeling his inner Darksydephil

They should have called Firey Phoenix Flame Chicken

This game has really good graphics for an xbox game. Now...I remember judgement day on G4TV giving this game like an 8 or a 9? But one of the reviewers/hosts, I believe his name is Victor? Gave Guilty Gear X2 a 4 or something like that, partly because he hated heavy metal music that he referred to as glam rock, and he thought GG was too button mashy.

This was my first fighting games (I was like 4-6) but one of my top 5 favorite fighting games. 😅😅

Wulong Goth's second costume looked like Scarab from Mummies Alive

I actually kind of miss this game

I remember playing the 2 character Demo of this on some games disc in the extras and once in a blue moon I would try to remember what it was called.

Xbox had this game called STAKE and boy was it a PowerStone Rip off with like 2 songs.

Tao feng was my shit as a kid

I had this game and loved it

It would be awesome to see you play Cardinal Syn for the PS1, a not great game I loved as kid!

Dude!! I’ve been trying to remember the name of this game for the longest time!!! I played this so much with my brother years ago lol

I actually like this game as a kid 😂 I’m not ashamed

The fatalist was my main, then geist my second.

Bro I remember this! the OG of OG’s 😂 on the first Xbox no less.

Ahhh my childhood

Ah yes, the first game that brought about my sexual awakening.

I remember reading about this in EGM.

Pale Lotus is legally distinct--the best kind of distinct.

Phoenix Path: Fist of the Lotus is kinda a cool name though. Very Iron Fist sounding.

*_YES YES YES OH MY GOD MATT I CAN SEE THE STARS!_* *THANK YOU MATTDADDY I'VE BEEN BEGGING FOR THIS!* 😭

My best guess is that the game mode you tried playing is a sort of campaign mode that needs you to win as several fighters to unlock the boss.

Im really glad someone talked about this... Thing

5:23 mortal kombat. Had basically all the female fighters in the same thing and only changed the colour

Actually had a lot of fun with this game. Some of the juggles were OD as fuck.

Jade Dragon looks like Juniper Lee grew up and just gave up in life

i used to have a demo for this game amd was mever able to buy it. i loved the demo though. graphics were sick at the time and the maps looked dope. i feel like I remember a casino or summ

I believe Vapor is named that because it's what her spine is comprised of.

It took years to block this game out of my memory... and now it’s back...

I remember renting this game. I enjoyed it. Wonder if I’d still like it.

You might as well do DOA 3. I'll click on that video faster than light!

Master sage was my favorite to use

i remember having a disk with the demo on it. only had 2 characters on it

I remember that when Maximilian played this he somehow pulled off a "0 hit combo" or something Does John Tobias have like some kind of asian culture fetish? Mk1 and 2 have a lot of asian inspired elements and after that there was few if any