Bikini Karate Babes

Infobox VG
title = Bikini Karate Babes


developer = Creative Edge Studios
genre = Fighting
modes = Up to 2 players with 10 available modes
platforms = PC , Macintosh
release = 2002

Bikini Karate Babes is a digitized 2D fighting game developed by Creative Edge Studios. It features an all-female cast of 19 fighters, all clad in bikinis and played by real actresses.

Gameplay

The game plays similarly to other 2D fighting games. There are 8 characters to select from initially and 11 more that can be unlocked. Each character has a set of moves and combos, which can be performed by use of the directional buttons and the three basic attack buttons, Punch, Kick and Special. The Special button pressed alone produces a grab move which, unlike other fighting games, varies depending on the opponent.

Each character has a long array of martial arts moves, a grab move and also a mystical move, which varies from firing a projectile to invisibility to teleportation.

Even though the fighters use actual martial arts moves, the game distinguishes itself in the use of funny/sexy moves that most characters have. Examples of sexy and/or funny moves include Thalia's tickle grab (see side photo), Lucina's mystic move which has her lowering her bikini top and shooting a laser beam from her breasts, and Zaria's grab which has her turning her opponent around then pushing her backside away with her own. Several other moves make a fighter remove her bikini top/bottom, but the bare parts are always somewhat covered (in Lucina's aforementioned move, thanks to the flare of the laser); there is never full nudity shown in the game.

Game Modes

Bikini Karate Babes features 10 distinct game modes:
*Arcade - 1-Player Story Mode.
*Battle Babes - 2-player Mode.
*Team Fight - Each player selects up to 8 characters. When one is defeated, the next takes her place.
*Marathon - The player attempts to defeat as many opponents as possible.
*Practice
*Challenge - The player challenges a specific fighter to get access to her Sweet Stuff (see note below).
*Spectacle - Two CPU-controlled fighters of the player's choice fight amongst themselves.
*Top Collector - The player plays as Venus against 5 specific fighters, and win if they use Venus' special throw to remove all her opponents' bikinis.
*Vegas - The player places bets as they watch the BKB fighters fight amongst themselves.
*Invincible Mode - Same as Arcade Mode but the player's life does not run out.Note : There is also the Sweet Stuff section where the player can view a collection of unlocked stuff like Endings, Pictures, Videos, and Interviews.

Characters

All the characters' names are based on goddesses of mythology, and each character's traits correspond to that fact.

tarting characters

*Tien Wu
*Voluptas
*Zaria
*Lucina
*Athena
*Thalia
*Isis
*Persephone

Unlockable characters

*Nemesis
*Sedna
*Gemini
*Kadi
*Ayida
*Kakia
*Colleda
*Pinga
*Kupala
*Venus (sub-boss)
*Aphrodite (final boss)

Trivia

*The game is no longer officially sold by the company to make way for its much more serious sequel, Warriors of Elysia.
*Several 'Behind the Scenes' DVDs containing auditions, outtakes, rehearsals, etc., were sold, but they too have been discontinued.
*The grabs sequences were recorded with both fighters together in the scene, so it was a different filming for each set of fighters. Although this means that a fighter cannot perform a grab if playing against the same fighter, it also means that a total of 342 unique grab sequences are available, possibly more than any other fighting game.

Cast

*Kelli Church as Kadi
*Miriam Finch as Persephone
*Mary Libenson as Colleda
*Laura Macginnis as Athena
*Krystle Mobayeni as Ayida
*Nora Morris as Pinga
*Crystal Nelson as Isis
*Erica Newport as Thalia
*Cynthia Okula as Venus
*Corinne Olson as Sedna
*Mira Popova as Aphrodite
*Tiffany Pruitt as Lucina
*Samantha Redmond as Gemini
*Olivia Sheldon as Nemesis
*Allie Strickland as Kupala
*Becky Tome as Zaria
*Phuong Tran as TienWu
*Olivia Vien as Kakia
*Claudia Zaborsky as Voluptas

External links

* [http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Bikini-Karate-Babes.shtml Demo of the game]
* [http://www.warriorsofelysia.com The sequel's homepage.]