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Grudge Warriors for PlayStation 1
Grudge Warriors for PlayStation 1 is a vehicular shooter in which you invade enemy islands in a heavily armed armoured vehicle. Rival gangs have built their bases there. You drive past defensive towers and other vehicles, find the power generators and destroy them to dismantle the base. The camera follows your vehicle through a three-dimensional environment. Taking down an enemy helps you advance, but that does not automatically complete your mission.
You have a standard cannon and additional weapons, including bombs and guided missiles. The different vehicles also have their own special attack. As you drive through the base, you keep an eye on your armour, health and ammunition supplies. Pickups can temporarily give you extra protection or other advantages. Collected tokens provide further upgrades. Sometimes you can only reach a generator after finding a switch, making the exploration of side routes just as important as keeping up your fire.
Alongside the campaign, two players can fight each other on a split screen. You connect two controllers directly to the console; no Multitap is required. You control your vehicle with the directional buttons or a supported analogue controller. The vibration function also works with a DualShock controller. You use a PlayStation memory card to store progress. A duel against another player is a separate battle, not a cooperative campaign.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Grudge Warriors for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Grudge Warriors
Tempest Software developed Grudge Warriors for the original PlayStation. Take-Two Interactive released the game in 2000, when vehicular combat was already an established part of Sony's console library. Twisted Metal: World Tour and Vigilante 8 had previously developed their own combinations of cars, characters and heavy weapons. Grudge Warriors therefore arrived not at the beginning of that development, but during the later years of the first PlayStation.
The game's world is ruled by gangs that exercise their power from remote islands. That premise also shapes the structure: you are dropped at an enemy base and take out its defences and power supply. The original presentation mentions 23 combat arenas and emphasises the varied weapons and temporary power-ups. Fixed installations thus have a clear role alongside clashes between vehicles. The generators give an attack an objective beyond simply eliminating the last opponent.
In North America, Grudge Warriors was part of Take-Two's budget PlayStation range. An original player review mentioned the new-copy price of $9.99 and also referred to Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol from the same publisher. GameSpot likewise assessed the simple game in the context of that low price, but pointed out the dated technology and limited execution. That combination of a complete three-dimensional campaign, local duels and a low launch price explains Grudge Warriors' place in the later PlayStation catalogue.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Like Grudge Warriors, Twisted Metal: World Tour lets you drive an armed vehicle through open arenas. You look for weapons, keep opponents in your sights and try to avoid their attacks. World Tour builds its tournament around distinctive drivers and destructible locations around the world. Grudge Warriors makes searching island bases and disabling generators the core of its campaign. That means you also need to find fixed targets and routes through the environment.
Vigilante 8 shares vehicular combat, special weapons and local duels with Grudge Warriors. Its cars, school bus and other vehicles belong to an exaggerated version of the 1970s. During battles, you can destroy buildings and parts of the arena. Grudge Warriors opts for futuristic armoured vehicles and bases belonging to rival gangs. In both games, your choice of vehicle determines your special attack, but their environments and campaign objectives are clearly different.
Steel Reign also revolves around battles with heavily armed vehicles and missions against military installations. You control tanks and hover vehicles, among other machines, across battlefields. In the Quest campaign, the condition of your chosen vehicle carries over to subsequent missions. Grudge Warriors uses gang-controlled island bases, with power generators as a recurring objective. Both combine driving and shooting, but Steel Reign develops its campaign around a military war rather than a conflict between criminal groups.
Future Cop: L.A.P.D. shares futuristic vehicles and the destruction of heavily armed opponents with Grudge Warriors. Your police robot can transform into a hover vehicle and moves through a gang-occupied Los Angeles. Its campaign can be played by two players. In Grudge Warriors, you instead represent a gang and invade enemy island bases. Its local two-player battles are competitive duels; you do not tackle the generator missions together as a police team.
WarGames: Defcon 1 combines direct vehicle control with military missions and the destruction of enemy buildings. You can switch between different units and fight as NORAD or WOPR's machines. Grudge Warriors keeps the focus on your own armoured vehicle and its weapons as you search an island base. Both demand more than quick aiming, but WarGames adds the management and deployment of several types of combat unit to the action.
