Fight For Life Trailer for Jaguar 64

[TheEscapedBalloon]

The plot reminds me of Thrill Kill, but it's not nearly as interesting looking.

This is a horrid ad too.

[Slacker4LiFe247]

@jowrab Yeah 3DO was awesome. The price Tag is what killed it if you ask me.

[cant1rac]

@jowrab yes i did and off course they all failed for various reasons, specific to each consule.

and it was the biggest transition time in gaming history, going from the primarly 2d based genisis and snes, turbo graphix neogeo atari xegs etc.. to 3d based.

with the biggest amount of competators.

it no suprise with the pace of fast pace of technical advance that ALL the early adopters failed. and the last entries of that generation, sega saturn n64 and playstation all enjoyed far more success.

[Gamiac]

Interrupting this totally well thought-out discussion, I can't help but hear "Do The Math" in the voice that they said it in the Super Meat Boy ad ever since watching it.

[cant1rac]

problem with the jag was very few game used a fraction of its potential.

in 93 the market was dominated by 16 bit.

Atari got lots of 16bit titles, like syndicate, where the jag version is far better than the snes, but still essentially 16bit.

by the time a year and a half later with the saturn being launched and the playstation being hyped. the game developers started moving away from 16 bit.

but atari jaguar, amiga cd32 and 3do were dead, being caught in the middle of the transition period

[cant1rac]

this is probably emulated or poorly captured, its slower over pixalated compared to playing it on the hardware.

the only way to judge these games fairly is too play on the actual hardware.

if you get a jag.

you'll realise what a great machine it was, and how poorly it was support by game developers.

and how stupid atari was to try and float a 64bit machine in what was a 16bit market dominated by snes megadrive, pc, amiga and ataris own st .

theyed have been better releasing the 32bit panther

[cant1rac]

this sound like a fan made, i saw the adds, can not remember the lame voice overs and bad presentation.

this was not an official add to my knowledge, compare it with virtual fighter.

actually graphicaly it dosent come off that bad.

people tend to remember virtua fighter 2 or tekken 2 when there doing a comparision.

i have all three consules so i can do a fair unbiased comparision, based on hardware, not emulation.

this look and plays well, on the consule. it not as bad as it looks in this video

[cant1rac]

really i get tried of people dissing the jag.

take doom for it easily the best version, the ps the most complete.

lets take fifa 98 for the saturn, my god the megadrive could have done better

or busby for the playstation..shit!

hope you get my point.

this was released in the year 3d fighting games were just breaking through, this was probably the first.

and comparing a 93 arcade machine with a home consule is ludicrious.

this was a cutting edge great game for the time it was released.

[mungrin]

32x looks better than this

[Nameswel]

This has to be the worst video game commercial ever.

[casescenario]

Wait... how could I "take the life of another" if we're both already dead?

[787Bisurdaddy]

I'll spell it out for you:

You said that the arcade VF came out in '93, which is irrelevant because we were talking about console games. You said Saturn VF came out in '94, which is incorrect for everyone participating in this conversation. Then you added a subjective opinion about what constitutes a fluid game. Nothing I stated as fact was factually incorrect.

[787Bisurdaddy]

Also, the Saturn's VF port was very sloppy. Even the 32X version was better than the Saturn version (which rightfully pissed a lot of Saturn owners off).

[rkhussain]

it was 64-bit and the graphics and texture details were holy crap darn saturn and PS1 was better than this in this case

[atariteki]

i like that game also a much when it come out

[rocharox]

Jaguar.... 64bits of pure crap. how can you fuck up so badly with a video game?

[Ultim874]

Doesn't this plot remind you a little bit of Eternal Champions? I mean, it was ALSO an ultra-gory Mortal Kombat rip-off where the prize was coming back to life... except that game, unfair as it is, was good.

[bigshoes123321]

wait, taking the life of another...but arent you both dead already?

[AssociationAdmirer]

@bigshoes123321 Yes, but the other competitors are also fighting to reclaim their lives, and if not for you, one of them would win. So by beating them you are effectively taking someone else's life. That's why he uses that specific phrasing, "taking the life of another".

[nathansgottagun]

The voice sounds like a teenager. Its not cool like in mortal kombat

[catmincenz]

Must... download.

[insurge]

Must.....not..dont do it!

[served007]

The announcer sounds so robotic. "WOULD YOU DO IT?"

[Yarkie]

My eyes. MY EYES!

[Vetuyasha]

Is this a joke? This is a 1996 3D fighting? Don't make me laugh! Virtua Fighter released at 1993 and had much way better graphics and animation than this piece of crap!

[gocaitygo]

3D era didn't really kick in until 1997 so there were many still awe at the 3D gimmick not to mention the voices in them too lol

[meowmmmmm]

@Vetuyasha Virtual Fighter arcade game was cool, but the 32X version was shit! Most people who comment on 'Fight for life' have never owned or even played the game.

[PatrickIngham21]

@meowmmmmm I have owned and played fight for life and can honestly say it plays very badly, VF on the 32x plays so much better. fight for life is an impressive looking game for the jag though, but looks dont make a game alone

[787Bisurdaddy]

@Vetuyasha

Actually, having owned both games and both systems, the graphics in Fight For Life are smoother and less problematic than the original Sega Saturn version of VF (which came out in 1995, not 1993). Control was also much better, and allowed for side-stepping, which is something that not even VF2 offered.

Sure, at the time, it was competing against a well-polished VF2 port, but it was still fluid and fun, and not nearly as bad-looking as this low-quality video makes it seem.

[RetronautReviews]

@787Bisurdaddy wow, this is amazingly inaccurate.

[787Bisurdaddy]

@RetronautReviews

How so?

[AssociationAdmirer]

@787Bisurdaddy I'm not sure what Retronaut means, but for one thing, the Sega Saturn version was not the original version of VF. The original version was the arcade game, which DID come out in 1993, just as Vetuyasha said. For that matter, the Sega Saturn version was first released in 1994, not 1995; it was a launch title.

Also, while this is a somewhat subjective point, describing a fighting game where a single round can easily take 4 minutes as "fluid" is questionable at best.

[787Bisurdaddy]

@AssociationAdmirer

It shouldn't be a big surprise that an expensive arcade board designed by Lockheed Martin would produce better 3D graphics than a much cheaper home system.

"For that matter, the Sega Saturn version was first released in 1994, not 1995"

Those of us who speak English natively didn't get it until '95.

All I'm saying is that my subjective opinion from owning both games is that Fight For Life wasn't nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

[AssociationAdmirer]

@787Bisurdaddy That's fine, but there's no need to supplement a statement of opinion with factual errors.

[787Bisurdaddy]

@AssociationAdmirer

Factual errors? Whatever. You clearly didn't understand my point.

[AssociationAdmirer]

@787Bisurdaddy No, you clearly didn't understand mine. If your opinion is based on factual errors, it's irrelevant. No one's going to listen to someone who doesn't care what the facts are.

[787Bisurdaddy]

@AssociationAdmirer

"If your opinion is based on factual errors, it's irrelevant."

Right, and it's not, we've already established that. Not sure why you're still going on about this.

[kinorai]

wwoouh boy... i Think I'm gonna take out my 32x and worship it... it's a wonderful system --after all--!

[8H2324]

WOW, the gaphic need to be tighting up a little bit

[torobug]

They should have called it Shit For Life ,,,,has my vote for worst game ever

[rahungry]

This game out the same year classics like Resident Evil, Tekken 2, Mortal Combat II, Tomb Raider,Super Mario 64  and around the same time FFVII. This console was doomed from the start.

[kentatm]

this game was a huge disappointment for me when I got it.

it really felt like it was only half done.

Ultra Vortek crushes this as the best fighter on the Jag.

[tigershadow3]

Trash...

[meathead612]

I was unfortunate enough to have owned this sad excuse for a game! It was one of the final nails in the coffin of a system that was once promising. Jaguar fell pray to a gaming community that expected pretty graphics and average gameplay. Unfortunatly fight for life had neither!

[bag2289]

Is this a real trailer?? That music was in Blue Lightning for Jaguar Cd!!

[jaredh83]

It looks like the same graphical quality as Tekken 1... maybe actually it's worse.

[GamingPalooza]

no, this game looked better then Tekken 1. Tekken 1 looked like real shit.

[cocacolaholic]

u having a laugh? i played tekken 2 hours ago and its a million light years ahead of this turd

[JohnnyHalox]

agreed

[Spriggangirl]

Trash...

[bisexualbuffthug]

LOL!!!!! What brought down the atari legacy is greed and very poor quality games. Fight for life is a game that is as bad as et was for atari.

[blokhed22]

WHAT IF this was good??, but no it seriously sucked giagantic monkey balls

[ioriyagami]

do the math? shit+crap=fail.

[GATSTORE]

totaly agree

[bisexualbuffthug]

@ioriyagami LOL!!!!!!!!

[nintendogsyo]

Do the math? Okay, is the answer Jaguar=Crud?

[hellspit2003]

I think this was the last game that was madefor the jaguar . It came out in 1996. Can you belive mario 64 came out the same year? this system was a waste and so were the games.

[bobbystar101]

@hellspit2003 The jaguar was an excellent system and the programmers were mostly shit

[clock655321]

@bobbystar101

Wow you are 1 out of a zillion people that thinks the jaguar was an exellent system. Please tell us all what drugs are you taking?

[bobbystar101]

@clock655321 Ever tried any programming on it?

[arkangel187045]

Ew. And I thought virtua fighter was bad. This is so much worse. Yuck.

[yethboth]

Interesting Virtua Fighter style game. Looks pretty good for a ill fated console.

[Mustafapen]

Don't fall for the graphics. This game is a turd.

[DEGtakk]

...hahaha! ...haha

[opelcambo]

i heard a rumor back in the day, that this wasnt going to be released or something about it wasnt fully finished wen it went on the shelfs. i think one downfall of the jaguar, was the fact you had to buy a atari falcon or mega st or something for around £6000 as a production setup to create the games or port them, not sure - but i did hear they where a ball ache to create original games

[bobbystar101]

@opelcambo I laugh at anyone who pays for a falcon won mine in an atari mag competition.

[ElArlequin]

"DO THE MATH" lol

WORST CONSOLE ON HISTORY

[sega31098]

looks like gba graphics, but impressive to even look at.

at least they didn't boast about the 64-bits again.

[finnishjuoppo]

it looks so 32-bit

[dpiktoria]

Atari, Commodore, Sega... the best of the past are now only a part of it.

[benzingermany]

Wow this looks even better than virtua fighter

[DMP1982]

is that announcer taking a shit while recording it?

[bisexualbuffthug]

Did you all know that atari had legal right to program any sega video game or arcade game on atari jaguar and they never did?? Sega sold them the rights to do so (for jaguar only). This is what happens when dummies that run a company don't know what they are doing. But in all fairness atari programmers did not have the necessary expertise to reprogram any of sega's games anyhow. Look what they did to fight for life.

[fedeloko69]

old

[chibminshiy]

I wish this was a spoof....

[Redbob86]

This was Electronic Gaming Monthly's 3rd worst videogame of all time.

[Snesgamer]

The Jaguar was so bad, even the commercials were shit. The Doom commercial was probably their best one so far.

[djphatd]

haha 64 bit my ass.....my sega 32x had better graphics!

[RazorFastClaws]

It is 64 bits, but had no hardwired hardware for 3D. In fact the Jag has freely programmable processors and programmers had to invent their own routines to do things. A few are good at that. ( Eclipse for instance) Most couldn't handle the freedom of programming on the Jag.

[bobbystar101]

@djphatd wrong....

[jorgekluney]

This game was pretty bad. There was that one girl that kept on saying "I'm soooo prrrretty". And even when you won, you still lost.... you beat all of the guys as you should and you still aren't allowed out.

[kermitdfrogz]

How do you take the life of a person who's already dead? *LOGIC ERROR* Most Jag games sucked, but Aliens VS Predator and Iron Soldier were pretty good, actually. I heard that there are other games that are good, but I never played them.

[zaccds]

ummm who ever made this do you know it taks place in hell so wtf are there mountains and citys in the backround?

[Tb0ne1]

Holy fuck Jaguar sucked hog.

[TotallyAnnihilated]

Perrrrrrfection in its purest form...

Keep up the good work.

[KitsuneDarkStalker]

Exactly, his voice is HORRIBLE!

[wvoutlaw2002]

If you think his voice is bad, wait until you hear the announcer in Kasumi Ninja. He sounds like "Steve Urkel as Charlie Chan". Now THAT was horrible.

[2Dlion]

why does the guy has to sound so serious, WUD U DO EET

[laramis]

(Singing) Ooooo!! Oooooo!! Fight for Life!!  :)