The blandest beat-em-up you'll EVER play.

User Rating: 4.5 | Burning Fight NGCD
By flintheart_glomgold | Review Date:
There have been some awesome side-scrolling beat-em-ups over the years. Games that will stand the test of time forever, Double Dragon, Streets of Rage 2, The Punisher, Final Fight; all brilliant. There have even been beat-em-ups that are so terrible that it never gets old laughing at them such as the C64 version of Double Dragon. Then there are the games that are strictly in the middle with nothing to recommend them and nothing to damn them to video game hell.

Burning Fight is one of those games. With a MASSIVE choice of three playable characters (with no distinguishable difference between them) you set off on your punching mission across three unspectacular levels facing hordes of generic bad guys.

Generic. Now THERE is a word that fits every aspect of Burning Fight. The bad guys are so lazily drawn that they're not even pallet swaps of each other. It's the same three bad guys again, and again, and again, and again. You'll beat-up a blonde, fat guy called "Duffy" about 50 times before this game is over, I kid you not. Even the music is generic.

The graphics are clunky. The gameplay is stiff. And when you defeat the final boss the game just...stops. Not even an ending cut-scene! I had no idea what the story was or why I wasted 30 minutes fighting every man and his quintuplets.

This game has nothing going for it, and I am not surprised that it has fallen into obscurity.

Graphics C
Sound C
Gameplay C
Lasting Appeal C-
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