Product description
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Go undercover as Hawk Manson in this highly classified covert
mission of government espionage where the goal is simple:
investigate and eliminate, but you'll need to think fast.
Evaluate and respond with sheer brute force, firepower or stealth
-- whatever it takes.
No compromise. No second guessing.
.com
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Similar to Syphon Filter from 989 Studios, Fighting Force 2 puts
players in the role of a cyberenhanced cop of the future. You are
trained to infiltrate evil research and development facilities,
destroy their work, and clear out any and all sition.
Fighting Force 2 is filled with massive levels, giving lead
character Hawk Manson the rtunity to explore multiple floors,
smash through walls, and break almost anything in search of keys
to new areas. Levels are filled with enemies whom Hawk can defeat
using any of 20 weapons (including s, knives, and
sledgehammers) that can be obtained by destroying cabinets, soda
machines, and crates.
Fighting Force's graphics are on par with Syphon Filter's, but
controls are far simpler. As a result, it is fairly easy to dive
in quickly to the action. While simplicity is the key to Fighting
Force 2, this game does lack the substance and theatrical style
that characterize Syphon Filter and other offerings. --Robb Guido
Pros:
* Huge levels and loads of weapons
* Rarefied controls compared to Syphon Filter's Cons: * Levels
may be a little too big
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Review
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If you're lucky, you don't remember the original Fighting Force.
The game tried to resurrect the Final Fight-style game by
providing scads of bad guys you could beat by simply pounding on
the punch button until everyone was dead. To put it bluntly, the
first Fighting Force was not a good game. Fighting Force 2 takes
the same basic beat-'em-up ethic and melds it with a pinch of
Lara Croftian camera work and a smidgen of Metal Gear-esque
espionage. The resulting game is better than the original, but it
still comes off as an incredibly dull piece of software. The game
sends you on several different missions, but your objective never
really matters. You just plod through level after level, beating
up anyone in your path and breaking all sorts of enemy equipment
along the way. Just about anything you see can be destroyed if
you hit it enough times. That's right, your character has the
ability to make soda machines explode using only his bare fists.
Heck, even an office chair will explode if you kick it hard
enough. This is incredibly silly, especially when s and
pickups start flying out of the copy machine you just stabbed
with your . This is also just about the only cool element in
the entire game. The enemies are painfully easy to defeat,
especially given the copious a of weapons you'll find along
the way. Anything you can make explode could potentially contain
another weapon for your inventory. Weapons include pistols (which
our hero holds sideways like the true gangsta he is), a ,
knives, grenades, sledgehammers, pipes, and axes. The inventory
is controlled by holding down a button and scrolling through your
items until you find one you like - it's not a perfect scheme,
but it works well enough. OK, the gameplay is weak and generic.
The sound is occasionally sketchy. The controls are a little too
touchy. But at least the game is fairly pleasing to the eye.
Though there are occasionally some clipping problems and some bad
seams here and there, the game generally looks pretty good. The
textures are nice and crisp, and the animation is fluid. The
behind-the-back camera works well, though it has lots of problems
in small rooms. There's really nothing exciting about Fighting
Force 2. The ease of gameplay makes it feel less like a game and
more like an exercise. So you'll just wander around kicking
everything in until sheer boredom forces you to turn the
game off - which, depending on your tolerance level, will be
anywhere from ten minutes to three hours. Yes, this game is
better than the original Fighting Force - but that's really not
saying much. Fighting Force 2 would make a decent rental, if only
to laugh at the exploding office chairs, but not much else.--Jeff
Gerstmann--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without
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