Moments In Gaming 5: Fighting Force

Today's installment of Moments In Gaming covers the 1997 Playstation game Fighting Force. It was one of those games in the late nineties era of video games where the fresh 3D technology of the Playstation spawned an avalanche of outstanding 3D games.

In Fighting Force you play the role of one ruffian (or ruffine) who is hired to intrude the premises of a certain villain named Zeng with the goal to eliminate him. So much for the story!

The graphics are of the typical early era PSX low-poly style but the environments that act as staging grounds for the rumble work surprisingly well. The gameplay is fun for a couple of rounds. You have a set of attack moves and combos available and you are able to pick up stuff from the ground like weapons, sandwiches, coke cans as well as bundles of dollar bills and even gold bars! Some items like cars, vending machines and trash cans can be destroyed to spawn makeshift weapons like metal bars that help dispatching bad guys quicker.

But the one feature that makes Fighting Force worth mentioning is the soundtrack by Martin Iveson! A well shuffled mixture of Electro and Techno beats blended perfectly together with filtered guitar riffs, fat bass lines and police sirens, sometimes uptempo and other times subtle and atmospheric. This is one of those soundtracks that has a very personal note and stands on its own among the deluge of orchestral mass ware and prefab sound loops often found in games today.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Beat'Em'Up
• Core Design
• Eidos
• Fighting
• Game Music
• Martin Iveson
• Playstation
• PSX
• Soundtrack

[truearea53]

Oh this brings fantasic memories, its a tough game but for once my brother and I made it to the last level and to the final boss, I sure do wish my brother was with me and the game :)

[AmandaRetana]

i used to always be mace too

[IronKatana4]

I liked the N64

[esathegreat]

2:57

lol!

[h3adcrabbio]

I love this game

[pipi22222]

unbelievable advanced rocket launcher for its time , it contained multiple rockets without even reloading !!! Amazing !!!!  5*

[cupididi]

i remember that. awesome coop game when i get friends around :)