I honestly thought this was the coolest game ever when I played it during the mid 2000s - and it's definitely one of those games which exists as this weird time capsule of the time, like an open world GTA-type game where you play as a cop and there's a bunch of Hong Kong martial arts style action in it - very much distinctly it's own thing.

There's still a lot of fun in this game, but it's also one of those games that comes across as janky with just how many mechanics it balances at once - and I remember not being the biggest fan of the fighting game mechanics in this - but it's kind of saved with just the inventiveness and what it does. Also features a bunch of great voice talent from the likes of Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken, although I really liked the lead voice actor Russel Wang - who plays the wise-cracking Nick Kang, and some surprisingly decent production values.

I will say this game is a tonne of fun even if it's admittedly a pretty flawed game - although I might just be making excuses for it because of the nostalgia I had for this game. Another thing is that I always had my license plate spell out 'Jackass' and there's weird segment that props up straight out of Big Trouble in Little China where you battle Chinese demons, zombies and someone who has apparently lived for hundreds of years - when like the rest of this game has a (relatively) grounded gritty action-comedy vibe to it, at least where it doesn't directly invoke the supernatural.