(LAST UPDATE: 6/28/09)
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Developer(s): SNK
Publisher(s): SNK
Platform(s): Arcade (Hyper Neo
Geo 64), Playstation
Release: 1998 (Arcade), June 24th 1999 (JP PS1), December 11th 1999
(NA PS1)
Characters:
Terry,
Andy,
Joe,
Mai,
Billy
Kane, Kim,
Yamazaki,
Raiden,
Toji,
Geese,
Xiangfei,
Duck
King,
Mr. Karate,
Tsugumi
Related Games:
Fatal
Fury, Fatal Fury 2, Fatal
Fury 3, Fatal Fury Special, Fatal
Fury Real Bout,
Fatal Fury Real Bout 2,
Fatal
Fury Real Bout Special, Fatal Fury:
1st Contact, Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Review:
In 1998, SNK's trademark Fatal
Fury series made the bold jump from 2D to 3D. This new installment
introduced some new faces,
and brought back a few classics from the franchise. The presentation was on par,
featuring a pretty sweet intro (at the time), and the artwork was also pretty
decent. Unfortunately the gameplay didn't at all compliment the presentation or
the artwork.
Graphically
this game was bad news... The 3D characters are extremely blocky and animate equally as stiff. Character models also aren't light sourced and
were prone
to some pretty nasty polygonal glitching. The "backgrounds" are rather low-quality 2D images, pasted
behind a flat square with awful textures (that's supposed to be a floor?)... 
Not surprisingly, the gameplay
of Wild Ambition was ironically, just as bad as the graphics.
On paper it looked alright... Just
like in previous Fatal Fury games, your character can "roll" in or out
of the background to dodge attacks. The new "heat gauge" allows for more
damaging attacks, and of course your character can perform a super move. Simply
put, the gameplay overall just feels sluggish, and worked so much better in 2D.
This was easily one of the worst 3D fighting games at the time, if not the
absolute worst.
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4 / 10 |
Closing Comment:
Capcom tried out bringing the Street Fighter franchise into 3D for the
first time with Street Fighter EX
and barely made par. So "of course" SNK had to try their hand at a 3D
fighting game, but they failed even worse. Both companies really should have
stuck with 2D at the time. ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG
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