The Princess is in another Castle

First up me (Hace) got a new avatar! Because I don’t want to have the Tee anymore.

Now the game review:

Sometimes when I sit at home alone for a few hours… I getting bored even with internet. Then I think of things in the early or farther away past which make the boredom an end. I remembered a Beat’em Up game which I played together with my brother when we were young and the playstation 2/3 wasn’t released. So I looked in my whole bunch of games until I found a N64 version of this game. Yeah I know that the controll sucks a*s but… yeah I was too lazy searching for the Playstation 1 Version.

Yeah Fighting Force is a usual Beat’em-Up. You choose one from four characters called: Hawk, Smasher, Mace and Alana. Story? F*ck the story! This is a Beat’em Up! The only thing you have to know is: Me good guy.. They bad guys. But the story is about a rich very bad guy in a long manteau who do bad things.

The Gameplay is easy. B is for Kick a*sses, A is for punch the s*it out of guys. L is for running. And the you have some sort of special attackl. If you press L+A then your character use his special attack. It’s the best attack in game but everytime you use it it drains your life. The funny thing in Fighting Force is that you can find weapons in your environment. If you see a steel pipe somewhere you can use the A button to take it and beat the crap out of guys. You can also use a bottle, guns or knifes. The game is partet in stages you have to clear to get further. But you can decide on your own where you want to go. After every boss you can choose between two stages you can go. But before you can decide between two options you have to reach a special score. You can earn scores with beat up the most guys or destroy the environment. But the most easiest is to beat guys and collect the gold bars, money or diamonds they left behind.

Of course life as an fighting machine isn’t easy and sometimes you take some damage. To heal yourself you have to pick u p some food. You can beat guys so they drop some food, which in my eyes look like sandwiches and amm awkward hot-dogs. You also can destroy a coke vending machine so the coke comes out or destroy a hot-dog stall so the hot-dogs flew out. Somethings in this game are quiet bad. At first the game is very hard for one player. You only have two lives and alone there were used up very fast. Then the bosses. Sure they are beatable but it’s quiet hard. You have to run away… kick him away and this loop is to do until the boss is dead. And the last and badest thing is that you don’t get any varity. You only beat guys in every imaginable part of a city like: park, subway, parking lot… a military base… something like that. You don’t get any more moves. You only have the basic moves the whole game! But I did not exactly know that because of the hard gameplay i wasn’t able to beat the game. Maybe in the next time because I WANT to beat it now!

Yeah all in one my opinion of the game is now since I’m an adult amm yeah… The game ist just f*cking amazing! In 2-Player mode this game is funny as hell. But only for a few hours of gaming then you have to wait until your head says: “I want to beat bad guys” again.

I would say… 3/5 Stars.

Facts:

• In Japan the game is called Metal fist.
• Althougt the low presentation of violence, the game got an FSK 18.
• Fighting Force got an sequel called: Fighting Force 2 which is released on: PS1 and Sega Dreamcast.
• The game was published by Eidos Interactive