Yes, Konami actually published this! - King Arthur

[@shadehawk]

konami: "we need a king arthur game!" *company: "sure, whats our time frame?" konami: "30 minutes"

[@kl1thedominion]

To be fair, they didn't shout "timber" because it's Britain. If they wanted to be authentic they would've shouted "a fokkin' tree, innit" as all British lumberjacks do.

[@littlesparkle]

All I can remember about the film is that they photoshopped Keira Knightley on the posters to enhance her bust. It caused a minor outcry at the time, UK papers said it was false advertising, all very weird as she was only 17/18 when it was filmed. I don't think it was the sort of advertising they wanted for this serious film.

[@DaveVaderify]

This sounds insane

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Fucken excuse me?

[@carn9507]

UK papers were always weird. Used to be topless women on Page 3 of The Sun newspaper that anyone could just look at and in the 80s they had Samantha Fox bare her breasts when she was just 16 and it wasn't a secret or anything. They even made reference to her doing her GCSE's at school. It's super creepy to look back at. Law changed in early 2000s so the minimum age was 18. And Page 3 itself ended in 2015.

[@garfieldcat007]

She was 19 when the film came out.

[@riemaennchen]

Its just like the movie! I remember all the barbarians flying around and glitching into the floor.

[@Sealbinder]

Watching the spinning flying bodies at the beginning really nailed a tone for this video. Absolutely glorious jank.

[@LordofSadFac]

for me was the portrait of the guy hes playing as, that passive "please help me" face really sells what this game portrays.

[@kainhighwind2]

The flipping sound effect really gave me "Putty that just got beat by a Power Ranger" vibe

[@Prohass]

The extremely buff-armed archer community is coming for Matt to give him a swirly

[@zaneseibert]

I guess no one ever told Matt that archaeologists can tell if some guy was an archer because old English archers got so swole that they developed buff skeletons.

[@flophouseplays]

shit

[@FinalGamerJames]

I love the cult game Drakenhorse where Lancelot made a soul pact with his vengeful steed where if one dies, so too the other.

[@longlivethesheet4561]

Now if I had to make a tie-in game to a Clive Owen movie, it’d be Shoot Em Up

[@retroinspect]

If the rules of Fire Emblem are accurate, and I have no reason to believe they are not, spears defeat swords and horses so you're at a double disadvantage.

[@VBrancoPT]

Konami: "Hmm... We should make a pachinko version of this."

[@rodrolliv]

2:39 Mads Mikkelsen, what are YOU doing here?

[@DSMTheEditor]

Man, I only remember this movie because of the hubbub over the poster art bumping Keira Knightley up a bra size. I absolutely forgot Antoine Fuqua directed it! I know it's hasty licensed shovelware when EGM didnt even review it.

[@Fyrmer]

I do remember this movie, but I never knew there was a video game. The scene from the film that always stuck with me was when Cliven Owen's Arthur has to set Keira Knightley's Guinevere's broken fingers. Her fingers are basically folded backwards and he straightens them out for her, complete with some horrific sound effects.

[@GoneFishingAmalgam]

Wasn't this movie out around the same time as the gritty robin hood reboot that tried to claim he wrote the Magna Carta?

[@bloodrunsclear]

Remember, King Arthur lived before physics were invented!

[@calebpribyl5152]

Yeah Konami did a lot of weird publishing Does anyone remember that one Wallace and gromit game? What about parodius?

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Or the fuckin Saw duology?

[@generalsci3831]

Yeah, this took me back to all those horde games where there were just too many enemies with sluggish controls. Ah, the mid 2000s...

[@jackmcslay]

Somewhere there must have been an aunt whose nephew asked for Dynasty Warriors 4 and ended up giving this game instead, resulting in a very disappointing weekend.

[@SecretIdentityStudio]

The sad thing is an Arthurian musou could actually be really cool.

[@GameJames-Arkveveen]

I will never get over that "You sound like your mother!" bit from one of your other recent videos, that Clash of the Titans one, thank you for bringing that up again and making me laugh my ass off. Forever the sickest of burns! XD

[@redpyramid6843]

This game is the at home version of Ryse son of Rome.

[@WatanukiProductions]

Memory unlocked! I saw this game on X-Play and actually really wanted to play it because they compared it to the Lord of the Ring: Two Towers tie in, saying that it wasn't as good but the archer character played as an archer first. Welp guess it's emulation time.

[@trevorghalt1881]

They fight like demons, jumping around after death🤣

[@OutOfTheGameLetsPlay]

Gotta give Krome studios credit, they knew how to make interesting battle mechanics. Mr McMuscles should check out some of the other movie games they worked on. Krome seemed to have a habit of going whole ass on those tie-in games.

[@jamesbugaychuk6147]

Of all the gamecube games, this one was the most memorable to me

[@trustycrusty1773]

A buddy and I used to play the heck out of this on co-op. It was okay

[@SteelBallRun1890]

2:39 Before Matt even gets shocked, I was like "IS THAT MADS MIKKELSEN?!"

[@LuisSanchez-yv4ct]

The transition at 2:45 is actually kind of sick.

[@isaiah2696]

Right???

[@TevorTheThird]

I love that there's this whole cutscene of cutting down trees to cross the river. A river that both the player and the enemies can walk across, as seen here in gameplay, because it's ankle deep. They even have pickups in the water. You just walk over to them. Perfect 😂

[@patrickmontgomery7449]

The fight on ice stays in my head

[@richardklein1167]

I still own the GameCube version of this game. I sped run it with my brother years ago. One or two things to note are bows are overpowered and so is Galahad and his silly incarnation with duel wielding.

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

I remember playing this game back in 2004 and it had some of the most jankiest controls and even worse was the loading time where it freezes up at a certain point of the game. I mean when you literally hit your opponent they were sent flying, the fly. I still remember when I was about 80% through the game itself where I was at a certain checkpoint and during one of the cut scenes it’s only froze and I had to keep hearing the main character that played Arthur in this game, as well as in the film, going “my, my,my,my, my.”

[@Hiccuple]

I would love a full play through.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

I liked this film funnily enough. His various cohorts were fun. And when he walled in the priests I was happy. Not so happy when Mads died. :(

[@migaloofuq]

thank god, for a second I forgot Konami even exists and thought it was just a figment of my imagination.

[@matthew-epurnell1610]

Belated happy new year 2U, Mr. McMuscles!

[@Dragonsmana]

Remember when WB tried to start a cinematic universe based on King Arthur? Pepperidge farm remembers.

[@DogOfHades]

Ray Stevenson (Punisher) is gone but Ray Winstone (Beowulf) who is in this movie, is alive.

[@donw3429]

Both Rays are actually in this movie

[@parnash]

Gotta appreciate the balls on the designers to not only have the first level be some complete jobber guy instead of ANY of the main characters, but to also be an escort mission.

[@chloeirnes]

I bet that was his face on HUD, mocking us!

[@scottnotpilgrim]

Remember watching the movie with my dad, had no idea it was made into a game 😅

[@83rockboyyo]

mate this is was literally my brother and I's goto coop game before we got Army of Two

[@UnexpectedDanger]

I like the horse mchorsles voice

[@BadgerCommander]

Ah Krome studios - famed for making that Hellboy game too

[@oldfox0015]

Dude, these 2000's movies all have the same orange / blue filter to it. Even in the game it seems. Plus published increases the insanity.

[@Endocrom]

I vaguely remember this movie, mostly Keira Knightley in the trailers

[@tonybarnes2920]

Wow, just wow... I've never seen this game. Of course, I've never seen the movie, either. It's sooooo "Two Towers: The Game". And I thought marketing schmucks force US to do the whole "Two Towers" thing with Revenge of the Sith... wow...

[@gagnose26]

According to Morte d'Arthur, King Arthur fought and avenged all of France when a Roman emperor tried to extend Rome's influence baack into France

[@ChrisDelChris]

I defy anyone to remember a single thing about this movie.

[@yiledute]

I remember quite a lot of the movie.

[@martn890]

This game and movie is so amazing.... the dueing part with the the eagle dude and bors

[@HawkOfLight1]

Should have done the Konami code

[@jamesc8968]

Matt we need a video dedicated to Australiam😢 games

[@schwaaard]

I believe it’s pronounced, “Germ-anus”. …Latin’s a crazy language. ;)

[@jcace13]

Of course you wouldn’t know this as you always use the genuine hardware but could an emulator cause such insane rag dolling? Or is it more likely that they realised they were making a King Arthur game and didn’t care?

[@HailHydraaaaa]

Movie was lit. None of this had anything to do with Rome or King Arthur tho 😂

[@YuriBo26]

I was scrolling through the feed and tis caught my attention so hard it gave me whiplash, like wtf why does this exista

[@christopherwall3240]

Anybody know if Keira Knightly is playable in this? In that case I might have to buy it. Matt did say it's in stores now. EDIT: If anyone else is curious, she is indeed a playable character in the game. It was difficult to find any info about the game besides shots of the game box but luckily it said Guinevieve (probably not how it's spelled) is playable on the back of the box. So, I said what the hey, and bought both the game and the Blu Ray of the director's cut for under $20. Can't go wrong with hot barbarian chick version of Keira Knightly. Anyway, Matt should seriously be paid by second hand online game sellers for doing these videos. This is the third time I've bought a used fifth generation game after he's made a video about it.

[@irkalla100]

I remember this movie! I remember how much I hated it lol Had no idea Konami made a game for it 😂

[@DragonHeart613]

The Director's Cut was awesome. The original Theatrical release not so much.

[@MisterButterfingers]

I fucking LOVE this era of ragdoll physics holy SHIT

[@tailgate8840]

Please play that Iron Man 1 game for the Ps3 and Xbox 360

[@estevaotesta6139]

Played this when was a child. Recognised it was a cheap game of a cheap movie, but had fun nevertheless, it was somewhat competent.

[@Ro_Morgen]

Usually i have a confusion between this movie and the one directed by Ridley Scott ("Kingdom of heaven") Good lord this game is jank as hell! Krome studios had some decent games back in the day. iirc the PS2 version of "Star Wars: The Force unleashed" was their work and in my opinion is better than the PS3/X360 edition MATT! Check out the Knights of the Temple games. The Second one was made by Cauldron (the same team that made the Cabela's Dangerous hunts) and it was PS2 eurojank at his finest.

[@Godzillaborg21]

What about the Pumpkinhead game? It's probably as much fun as this was

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

That game is magnitudes worse than this. The chance of anyone managing to get anywhere in that game without looking up what you're meant to do is next to none. In some respects, I do think that Pumpkinhead's developers deserve credit for creating an FMV game that doesn't just directly adapt the film they're using footage of, but the decision to make it into a dungeon crawler/adventure game where you wander around a network of subterranean tunnels and obtain usable items from the movie clips was not executed well and ended up being very confusing, doubly so if you'd actually watched the film it was based on.

[@zhukov2116]

Tasmania mentioned!

[@Prohass]

Cliiiive!

[@Mr_D_The_1st]

good god,is didnt remenber how messed up this movie was historicaly,funny i remenber playing this game only once too.

[@Keirfire]

I just remember having fun playing this co-op... I don't remember it being this jank lmao

[@rayhoyer4829]

I had so much fun with this game as a teen!

[@maybetoby]

I saw this movie in theaters.

[@LordQuadros]

For a second, I thought this was going to be based on that terrible Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie. I hope there was a game for that shit. I don't know why, but it feels like there should be.

[@Brywins08]

I played the crap out of this game ! Jank memories

[@mikethetowns]

[@starryknight5555]

It's so shamelessly ripping off the lotr hack and slash ea games. It's actually impressive how similar in execution they are but so woefully lacking the budget and talent behind those games. Pretty hilarious end result, the ragdoll physics are almost parody levels bad.

[@sunflow57]

Lmao

[@RicPendragon]

Never liked this King Arthur movie, so much about it irked me, can't begin to wonder why I cared so much...

[@dolphin2046]

First?

[@blanketmobbypants]

The fact that knew to incorporate crip walking with keep it gangster. My bbq attendee lol

[@blanketmobbypants]

That horse got insta killed and idk why I remember this game but it’s a game lol

[@GamesAndAnimes]

One day we get a Brute Force video on this channel. 😁

[@LordQuadros]

For a second, I thought this was going to be based on that terrible Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie. I hope there was a game for that shit. I don't know why, but it feels like there should be.

[@flophouseplays]

HOLY SHIT I forgot about THAT king arthur movie. I actually remember this one more.