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Sticking to the Script

When you sit down to play Kung Fu Chaos, you step onto the fictional set of a Kung Fu action movie andbecome one of the martial artists that Director Shao Ting has hired to be in his film. You want to impress Ting because, the more he notices your character's talent, the more likely he is to make you a star. Your acting career is at stake. As you fight your way through the sets, killing off your fellow actors and counting coups, you earn brownie points with Ting. The actor with the most points at the end of filming gets top billing.

Ting drives the game's backstory. Here's a taste of his "biography."

Director Shao Ting, winner of the prestigious Wandering Eye Film Award for "Best Subtitle Color Selection," has come out of retirement to make a new Hong Kong action film: Kung Fu Chaos. If Ting wants action, he gets action! And, Ting wants action. He wants pizzazz. He wants stunts and sass, too, but don't give him any lip. He's the director, andhe's large and in charge. Ting has waited a long time for this chance to make the ultimate martial arts movie. He expects a lot from his actors and is more than willing to lose a few pretty faces along the way, if necessary, in the name of art.

A Lifetime of A-chi-evement
Over the years, Shao Ting has directed several Hong Kong action movies, all on shoestring budgets. They include the infamous Kung Fu Movie: The Movie of Kung Fu. You may remember it as the movie with absolutely no plot—or not. More recently, Ting turned his talents to Screaming Fist: The Legend of History, about Wu T'ing, a warrior-king in the Seventh Century, who dictated that all his subjects be entombed with him when he died, thus ensuring his empire's downfall.

Walking the Earth
Ting's other films include Broken Cane Keeps Father Home, labeled a "dining room drama," about a dinner party that ends in flying food, and Fury with Wings of Misfire and Discipline. With Fury, Ting made his mark by directing one of the first Asian westerns that had no dialogue whatsoever. In it, a philosophical chef conflicts with a wok haunted by the spirit of Ting's childhood dental hygienist.

Shao Ting Makes Himself Heard
Shao Ting encourages his actors to give the performance of a lifetime—or die trying. He pops up, megaphone in hand, to add to the banter on the set, to give hints, and to encourage battle fury. Born in the Year of the Rat, he pulls no punches. Ting knows how to handle prima donnas. He doesn't coddle. If you can't cut it, you're out of there. If your fellow actors don't get you, Ting will, with his dangerous sets and surprise plot twists.

Shao Ting joins in the combat once you unlock him. You can thenchoose him as your martial artist character. Until that time, he's an ever-present commentator. Throughout Kung Fu Chaos, he gives you the directions you need to guide your character through the obstacles.

By Martyn Rose