(LAST UPDATE: 6/28/2009)
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Developer(s): Capcom
Publisher(s): Capcom
Designer(s): Tetsuya Iijima
Platform(s): Arcade,
Sega Saturn, Playstation
Release Date(s): July 1999 (Arcade), March 30th 2000 (
Saturn)
Characters:
Cody,
Damn
D, Sodom,
Hugo,
Haggar,
Rolento,
El
Gado, Edi E., Poison,
Guy,
Belger
Related Games:
Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street
Fighter III: 2nd Impact
Review: Capcom's
classic "beat-em-up" series Final Fight (which debuted in
arcades in 1989) featured some memorable characters, some of which who have
already crossed over into Capcom's Street Fighter Alpha series. For some reason, Capcom
America decided to re-make the Final Fight franchise
into a "3D" fighting game... 
3D? Really Capcom? Now why would you do and do that?!? 
While a Final Fight fighting game sounds really good on paper, the fact
that it's 3D is truly the game's worst enemy.
The theme is gritty and street-like, with most stages in
fact, being on or close to some sort of city street; and most of which looking
quite ugly to say the least... Low-res 2D images that wrap around a horribly
textured square ground pretty much describes every stage in the game. Character models are large,
but have a sickeningly low polygon count and come off looking nothing short of Lego people.
Nearly every character has stubby arms & legs, and look absolutely horrible. The
grainy background and character model textures
make things even worse. Alright, I'll go ahead and say it because it needs to be
said... Final Fight Revenge is one of the worst looking 3D fighting games
of all time. 
The gameplay
is equally as bad as the graphics... Very slow and clunky. The crappy animation makes the gameplay
even more choppy and awkward. Could this game get any worse? Yes. 
Characters don't have many moves, which means (if you actually bothered to play
this game) you'll be seeing a lot of spamming, and also hearing the
characters say the same (stupid) things over and over, and over, and over, again. The super
moves are somewhat entertaining... For example: Eddy E. runs you over in a police
car,
Poison does a pole dance, El Gado breaks your bones, and Hugo squishes
you under his big ass... Classy.
The gameplay is a joke, literally... Fighters are able to pick up weapons off of the ground like knives, swords, guns (lots of
guns), spiked knuckles, bombs, even a chainsaw... Most characters also have
their own exclusive weapons at their disposal. From my description of the game,
you might think this would be a "violent" game,
but it's actually not as brutal as it sounds... Not even close. 
FF: Revenge doesn't take itself too seriously...
I mean, in what other fighting game can you use a bazooka, a machine gun,
rifle, bow gun, and a shotgun? Sounds more like the recipe for a cut
& paste FPS!
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- Review is for Sega Saturn version of Final Fight Revenge - |
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3 / 10 |
Closing Comment:
I loved Final Fight... The music, the characters, & the gameplay
experience. Capcom's classic beat-em-up really should have translated very
well into a fighting game, but they really messed it up. 
For us Capcom fans, it was utterly heartbreaking to see our beloved Final Fight characters transform into "walking
lego-people."
WTF. Final Fight Revenge's gameplay makes the game too hilarious to be taken
seriously, which is ironic because the original Final Fight actually had a
pretty serious tone. The character roster is
also very small, with no new faces to the series, and also no characters from
Final Fight 2 or Final Fight 3... *sigh* They could have done so
much more.
If you're looking to experience
the true Final Fight vibe, just go back and play the original Final
Fight, or Final Fight 2, or maybe even Final Fight 3... (it's
better than this crap at least). Thankfully, a handful of Final Fight characters
translated much better into other fighting games like Street
Fighter Alpha 3 and SF3: 2nd Impact... And
what do you know, those were 2D games. Hmm. Learn anything Capcom? ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG