• ID = PS0088
• STYLE = 3D Fighting
• DEV. = DreamFactory
• PUB. = Square Electronic Arts
• R-DATE = Dec-01-2000
• ESRB = T / For Teen
• PLAYERS = 1 player
• LIST PRICE = $19.99
  

The mysterious Mikado Corporation has kidnapped a young girl named Dominique. Three of her friends who are bouncers at a seedy bar called Fate set out to save her. You can take the role of Volt, Sion, or Kou, each with unique attacks, strengths, and stories. When you are ready for action, you will have to engage enemies in hand-to-hand combat. As these three through move throughout the game, they will earn bouncer points depending on how big a beating they dish out. These points can be spent on improving your character’s basic stats or new special moves. After working through one character’s story you can switch identities, play through the game again, and have a completely different experience. Combining the action of a fighter with the character-building elements of an RPG, THE BOUNCER has a little something for everyone.

Features:
• Action game featuring intense brawling combat.
• Go from bouncing drunks to saving your friends.
• Three different characters to play.
• Multiple gameplay modes.
• For one player.

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The Bouncer is a sci-fi action thriller that's cut from the same mold as the 1989 motion picture Road House, starring Patrick Swayze. The game follows the exploits, triumphs, and tragedies of a 19-year-old barroom bouncer named Sion Hazard.

As with any other bouncer, Hazard's job is to mop up the floor with out-of-control inebriated fools who can't hold their liquor and want to cause trouble at a hot club named Fate. Dominque Cross is a regular at the bar and a friend of Hazard's. While talking to Hazard at the bar, she's kidnapped by mysterious, high-tech thugs despite Hazard's valiant defense, in which he's assisted by bouncer pals Volt and Kou. This is where the game begins, with a challenge that's issued and accepted.

Each of the three bouncers specializes in his own form of martial arts. Hazard, for example, knows kung fu, but is also schooled in that not-so-secret art of using bar furniture and assorted other objects as weapons.

A good portion of the game takes place within the towers of the Mikado building. The three towers represent the three divine towers of the Imperial throne; so, don't be surprised to find quite a deep game here.

The Bouncer is one of the more impressive-looking games for the system yet; the early bits we've seen show detailed environments and fluid animation. --Todd Mowatt