Core Design originally pitched the game to Sega as a potential fourth entry in Sega's Streets of Rage series. Sega declined; according to Core, Sega explained that it had its own plans for continuing the series. [5] Core opted to go ahead with the game as a standalone, multi-platform title, and started work on it. [5] Core Design collaborated with ten coders from EA Japan in making the game. [7] IGN staff (9 February 1999). "Crave Nabs Fighting Force". IGN. Ziff Davis . Retrieved 22 November 2020.

Liu, Johnny (January 2000). "Fighting Force 2 - Playstation Review". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on 16 February 2004 . Retrieved 13 October 2020. Dunham, Jeremy (11 January 2000). "Fighting Force 2 Review (DC)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019 . Retrieved 26 June 2023.That’s not the whole story, however, as you’ll soon see from the list of the Best PS1 Fighting Games. Sony’s PlayStation launched in Japan in late 1994 and worldwide the following year, at a time before online gaming was as prevalent and accessible as it is today. Shortly after the best PS1 fighting games started to reveal themselves. Fighting Force, from the same developers that brought us Tomb Raider, looked very promising from the early reports. It looked like it was going to be the ultimate beat-'em-up game, redefining the genre for the 32-bit and up systems. Unfortunately, the game starts strong, but becomes an exercise in futility on or around the second level.

But which of the many fighting games for the PS1 released were the cream of the crop? Of course, everyone has their favorites but for this list, we'll be ranking them by how they're scored on Metacritic. Let's take a look!

The four characters have various reasons for taking on Dr. Dex Zeng, a criminal mastermind with an army at his command who predicted that the world would end in the year 2000. After New Year's Eve 1999, Dr. Zeng believed that there was an error preventing the apocalypse, so decides to correct it by destroying the world himself. [5] The action starts with a police cordon around Zeng's office skyscraper, moving to such locales as a shopping mall, subway and Coast Guard base before finally ending at the top of Zeng's island headquarters. Genre Shift: Fighting Force 2 changes the genre into a third-person action-adventure in the vein of Tomb Raider and surprisingly plays like Oni, but slower paced.

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Evil Laugh: Zeng has this, especially when he's getting the upper hand in the final level/boss battle with him.