Reader Reviews

Fighting Fury (PS2)

by DDevil

Oh dear, as I sit here, about to write this review I feel like I'm writing a eulogy for someone I didn't really like all that much in that its hard to find something good to say.

Fighting Fury is a 3D one-on-one fighting game. It's bad. It's very bad. I played this game and my mind flashed back to all the terrible public domain games that were around on the Amiga (admittedly some of the finest Amiga games were PD - but I digress!). I think it was the amateurish graphics, or maybe the terrible animation, but it could of course be the unoriginal, generic and very samey characters - all of which leave the game with no variety. It's not helped by the controls either, which are slow to react, so much so that you don't feel like you're actually playing. On second thoughts, that may be a good thing. No, scrap that idea, it's still a bad thing.

The game comes with all the normal game modes, including an arcade mode where you fight each character in turn, with no kind of story to back the action up. All you get is a static screen before each fight with a comment from each of the fighters, not that what they say makes much sense anyway. Of course, the usual versus and training modes are all present and correct, again very standard and unexciting. Also there is a game mode where you take one of the characters (you don't get to choose which one) and give him whatever moves you want and then fight him against the other characters. Sadly, it's very one-dimensional and therefore sits in perfectly with the rest of the game.

The game rips off many other beat-'em-ups. From the three-stage super bar that Capcom made popular with Street Fighter Alpha and the Vs series, to a bad attempt at implementing walls a la Dead Or Alive, Virtua Fighter 4 or Soul Calibur 2. It's not got an original idea anywhere, which is only made worse by the fact that the ideas it does use are so poorly executed that you're just left cringing.