Fighting Force

Fighting Force is set a few years after the millenium, involving a Dr. Dex Zeng who believes that the world should have ended on January 1st, 2000, and as it hasn’t is none too impressed but he is one of the few people who has it in his power to make this happen.

One of his assistants, Snapper, has had enough of this madman’s ranting and has put together one of the most volative teams ever created – the FIGHTING FORCE.

To summarise, the game is a 3D version of the popular late 1980’s Renegade which involved one man against hordes of enemies, up to 3 or 4 at a time – and some of these charging at you on motorbikes – and to beat them up you either used your fists or with various implements lying around the playing area.

Playing the Game

Controls

Main Menu

From this point you can select a one- or two-player game, or go to the options screen.

Options

On this screen you can select the difficulty (easy/normal/hard), music and FX volume, choose mono or stereo sound, and pick the preferred controller settings from one of eight pre-set configurations.

You can load previously-saved games, load/save game settings or view the high score table. One essential addition made to this screen is the ability to adjust the screen’s position as it’s not always dead-centre on every TV set.

The game can be read in three different languages: English, French, German, and the manual comes in five: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Playing The Game

After selecting the number of players, and the two-player selection allows both players to join forces against the tirade of enemies, the game begins. On each level you can throw oil barrels and crates at the bad guys, and when they’re on the ground give them a kick to finish them off.

Alternatively take it one step further and use knives, bottles or crow-bars, or seriously go for the throat and blow the crap out of them by shooting with guns and shotguns. You can get some of these items by smashing up certain items of scenery.

You can save the game, or gain continues to carry on at the same level, only at set points which can be a pain at first as it’s quite difficult to get used to the controls so it’s easy to die. After completing a level you can choose to move to one of two or three new places.

Character Select

There are four characters you can choose from, each with their own special moves, although if you’re playing a two-player game you can’t both have the same character.

Mace Daniels: Mace is Fighting Force‘s answer to Nikita – not brash, loud or annoying, but a woman aware of her sexual magnetism. This, coupled with her array of martial arts and weaponry skills, makes her a fighter than men as well as women envy.

Hawk Manson: Hawk is an aggro vigilante who has the hots for Mace, and while he has several jobs on the go at any one time, he takes this one in a bid to get closer to her. In addition, he also took the job as he was once a freedom fighter and feels this job is tinged with a bit of “goodness”.

Ben (Smasher) Jackson: Smasher has been serving multiple life sentences and the prison is very fond of him, renting him out to Hawk as it cuts down on inmate deaths and brings in a wad of money each time this happens. Smasher is like a loose cannon and will smash into EVERYTHING given the chance.

Alana McKendrick: Alana is 17 and still at school inbetween going out raving at night. When asked by Mace to help defeat Dr. Zeng she jumps at the chance as Alana is his illegitimate daughter and feels it’s her responsibility to stop him trying to end the world.

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