To promote the new Shanghai Knights movie that was coming out at the time, Warner Bros released a free flash game titled Jackie Chan's Shanghai Showdown.

The game is a humorous remake of Kung Fu and takes you through 4 floors fighting ninjas and knights in armor. You got a high kick, punch and fly kick at your disposal and most the enemies takes one hit to kill. The graphics mostly use clip art pictures which gives the game a pretty funny look. Once you reach the top floor you'll face Wu Yip, Donnie Yen's character from the film.

Jackie Chan's Shanghai Showdown

The whole game take no more than 5 minutes to play through and it's unlikely you'll die even once. But since it's just a simple promotional game for a movie, it's pretty well done and funny, and those 5 minutes will probably make you chuckle.

Just before Hip Games went bankrupt, they managed to release one title associated with Chan, Around the World in 80 Days. In 2004 they released the GBA adaptation of the movie released the same year.

The movie is losely based on the novel by Jules Verne and stars Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan as they set out to travel the world in 80 days. The movie was a financial and critical flop compared to its production costs, and the only few memorable moments were cameos from Sammo Hung as Chinese folk hero Wong Fei Hung and Arnold Schwarzenegger sharing a bath with Jackie Chan. I'm sure that'll get you running down to get the DVD.

Maybe it was because of the few moments to draw from that makes this game so incredibly bad. The sprites are all a pixelated mess who remain static for the most part while Jackie controls like a drunk baboon. You have little control over his jumps, his attacks is the same 3 punch combo which looks more like something Mike Haggar would do than Jackie and the enemies keep walking away from you while shooting projectiles on you which leads you to just die all the time. The levels are also extremely bland, with the same buildings and scenery just repeating. You can climb up on rooftops but all that does usually is to make you fall down all the way again because Jackie's jump is so unpredictable.

The game went the same way as the movie and was mostly ignored by the public, and Hip Games went away. It would be surprising if anyone would even want to play this for 80 seconds.

In 2009, Chan revealed the details about a film he claims took 20 years to get made. Little Big Soldier is a comedy movie set in ancient China and stars Jackie Chan as a cowardly soldier who pretends to be dead on the battle field in order to survive. As the battle wages on, only one man survives although serverly injured and Jackie decides to capture him in hopes of a reward.

Shortly after the announcement of the movie, Chan held another press conference announcing that the movie would be getting a video game tie-in to be launched around the same time as the movie was set for theatres. Not much was shown from the game itself outside of a few pieces of artwork and character designs. The only real detail that were revealed were the fact that this would be an MMO based on the universe the movie is set in.

Character Art

On January 26, 2010 servers went online and fans could finally sign up to play Flash Little Big Soldier. For people who don't speak or read Chinese, this game won't be of much joy or entertainment, though. You start by creating your own character, either male or female and start out in a small town. The game is controlled by clicking the mouse at your preferred destination and your character will run over. The NPC all give you comments and some will ask you to do specific tasks in exchange for money or items. You can eventually work your way out of town and onto the world map. Here you'll encounter fights against strangely cartoonish creatures and gain experience points.

Cast

The game looks quite good with some really colorful backgrounds, nice sprites and good looking illustrations for the talking NPCs you'll encounter. Since everything is played through the browser and runs on Chinese servers, you gotta wait a few minutes sometimes for the entire map to load properly, as you'll find yourself in the middle of a pixelated land of tomorrow when you first load it up. Musically it's pretty pleasing with a calm Chinese melody during the main game and a surprisingly catchy and energetic battle theme. The only downside is that since the entire game is loaded through the browser, the songs are encoded at quite low quality and you'll get a bit of static through your speakers.

The game is free to play and open to players all over the world, but the only language available is Chinese and you need to sign up for an account on the website. So even if you're not a citizen from the land of the Great Wall, it might be fun to boot up just to explore the scenery and maybe even encounter the man himself walking around.

Press Conference News Segment (Mandarin)