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Undying Dragon and recover the Soul Portal Artifact in order to avenge his Master's death. They give him a new body and return him to the mortal realm. He pursues a courier and follows his blood trail to a fireworks factory. Drake shoots at him but is killed in a sudden explosion.
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Serpent-Eye and take the Artifact back but is attacked by Tang's henchwoman Banshee and killed once more. The Spirit Gods decide to cut their losses and send Drake back to the penthouse, where the Tang Undertakers are stealing the corpses of the 99 Dragons. Drake chases after a truck holding his master's body and finds himself taken to a cyborg creation facility. There, he finds that Master has been turned into a cyborg, but manages to defeat the robot and retrieve his Master's body from the remains.
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souls. He then travels to the basements of the facility, where Tang is using the artifact to open the portal to the spirit realm. Drake fights and defeats a demon-like creature, but the Ghost
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Drake then falls down to a nest of a three-headed beast called the Spirit Lord
Supreme and defeats it. Drake then goes back to the Serene Garden and revives the Master with the artifact. Master thanks Drake for his efforts, stating that he achieved a level of proficiency even he was unable to reach,
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Artifact from a dying Drake and heads off to his canned seafood factory, where they are harvesting the soul from an
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The gods, annoyed once more at Drake's lack of competence, bring him back to life and send him to the House of the
Dreaming Cloud casino. There, Drake attempts to find the courier but is attacked by the casino's owner Pok and his demon dogs. After defeating Pok, Drake tails the courier to the Hung
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cahoots with Tang, a businessman and the clan's mortal enemy. Drake then pursues the assassin, but is unable to stop the villain when he phases out of a window of the penthouse. He returns to the Master's chamber, only to find the corpses of himself, the Master, and the other members of his clan.
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Undying Dragon by The Master, which provides him with supernatural powers as well as immortality. The tattoo glows, and Drake unleashes the abilities to run up walls, slow down time, and
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based clan known as the 99 Dragons. While training in the Kwoon, he hears a break in. He enters the chamber containing the Soul Portal
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1047:"Drake of the 99 Dragons".
310:worst video games ever made
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516:Official Xbox Magazine
1286:Third-person shooters
1066:"Drake Review (Xbox)"
647:AOL Instant Messenger
292:Idol FX intended for
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265:third-person shooter
241:Third-person shooter
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988:"Drake Review (PC)"
923:on January 12, 2008
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306:negative reception
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127:Stefan Ljungqvist
108:Anders Ă…kerfeldts
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1150:October 27,
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1082:October 28,
1032:October 28,
1000:October 28,
927:October 28,
669:bullet time
419:Publication
180:Platform(s)
155:Composer(s)
91:Designer(s)
81:Producer(s)
62:Director(s)
1306:Xbox games
1265:Categories
1232:2022-07-29
1173:Metacritic
1143:Metacritic
892:Ziff Davis
757:2022-07-30
732:2023-05-21
708:References
597:Metacritic
400:Metacritic
379:Aggregator
298:multimedia
283:antagonist
268:video game
162:Johan Rask
1256:MobyGames
1179:March 17,
694:nostalgic
655:Moviefone
653:and "the
370:Reception
365:Reception
338:Hong Kong
214:(Windows)
145:Writer(s)
120:Artist(s)
1227:PC Gamer
1200:GameSpot
1071:TeamXbox
956:GameSpot
917:GameStop
776:Gamespot
727:GameZone
688:PC Gamer
677:GameSpot
640:GameSpot
618:GameSpot
595:website
532:TeamXbox
486:GameSpot
316:Gameplay
279:assassin
236:Genre(s)
793:Idol FX
751:Gematsu
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479:1.25/10
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