(LAST UPDATE: 11/26/2009)
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Developer(s): Data East
Publisher(s): Data East
Platform(s): Arcade, Super Nintendo
Release Date(s): 1993 (Arcade), 1994 (SNES)
Characters: Ray McDougal, Liu Feilin, Ryoko, Matlock Jade, Samchay, Lee Diendou, Makoto Mizoguchi, Jean Pierre, Marstorius, Clown, Karnov
Related Games: Fighters History Dynamite, King of Fighters Maximum Impact: Regulation A
Review: First of
all, Fighter's History is the most blatant "knock-off" of Street
Fighter 2 ever made. Players choose "one of eight international fighters"
and "compete to be the best in the world." Sound familiar??? From the life
bar colors, to the way moves are done, to the blocking hit effects, to
the backgrounds, to the way characters animate, down to the very specific
gameplay mechanics... Fighter's History is simply trying to be Street Fighter
2 with different characters. Capcom thought so too, and they actually
tried to sue Data East but somehow lost the case in the end... 
Those
bastards.
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The only thing
that's different about Fighter's History, when compared to Street Fighter
2, is that the characters pretty much suck, and the game isn't the
least bit fun. The overall graphics aren't completely horrible for
1993 graphics, but this game offered nothing new to the fighting
game world. The gameplay is sickeningly similar to SF2 as well... The speed,
the jumping, the "pushing back" when you attack a blocking opponent, etc...
It's as if Data East took Capcom's Street Fighter 2 engine apart, and hacked
it (90's style), to create this "piece of crap" Data East called a game.
Fighter's History is indeed history... And this is the type of History
that should be forgotten.
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2 / 10 |
Closing Comment:
Quite honestly, this game doesn't even deserve to be featured on
TFG... Pretty much the only reason this blasphemy is even here is because SNK
signed a deal with G-Mode, one the the owners of Data East's properties, so that
Makoto
Mizoguchi could be featured in King of Fighters:
Maximum Impact Regulation A. Although, I guess it's good that this profile
is here after all, at least to remind (and educate) the fighting game community
about the most blatant Street Fighter 2 rip-off in history. Ohh yeah, they had
the audacity to make a sequel too...
Fighters
History Dynamite. ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG
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