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Digital Eclipse have always had interesting approaches to collections. Certainly keen on preserving the past, they’ve been good at providing documentary footage to give players a peek behind the curtain. Last year’s Atari 50 : The Anniversary Collection seems to have provided a good blueprint and now, The Making of […]

The Making of Karateka – PS5 Review

September 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged apple ii / asteroids / atari / broderbund / c64 / deathbounce / digital eclipse / documentary / fighting / francis mechner / game development / jordan mechner / mike mika / prince of persia / prototype / the making of karateka / tom hall by Mike

WWE have ruled the wrestling roost for a long while but that hasn’t stopped companies looking to mildly threaten the sports entertainment behemoth. Nobody has really come close but All Elite Wrestling are the latest to, at the very least, gain a foothold in the industry. What follows is AEW: […]

AEW: Fight Forever – PS5 Review

June 30, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aew fight forever / barbed wire exploding death match / branching narrative / cm punk / fighting / i'm old tired and i work with children / kenny omega / online multiplayer / the young bucks / wrasslin / yuke's by Mike

World Championship Boxing Manager II is, as the name suggests, a boxing management simulator and it comes to us by way of Pittsburgh programming crew Mega Cat Studios, a studio that formed some twenty-five years after the original game came out. As in the original game, you play as a […]

World Championship Boxing Manager II – PS4 Review

May 17, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boxing / fighting / management / simulator / world championship boxing manager 2 by Richie

When you really stop and think about it, translating wrestling into a fighting game framework can be an impossible task. The sport itself is a collaborative effort whereas most gaming is a solo experience with explicit win conditions. Wrestling games have been many things over the years but I struggle […]

WWE 2K23 – PS5 Review

March 20, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fighting / john cena / sports entertainment / then now forever / vince mcmahon / visual concepts / wrasslin / wrestling / wwe 2k23 by Mike

Midnight Fight Express is a 3D beat ’em up single-handedly programmed by one-man Polish powerhouse Jacob Dzwinel (albeit with a little help in the writing and music department). It takes the classic brawler type of game and gives it a fairly unique perspective as it tells the story of a man, […]

Midnight Fight Express – PS4 Review

September 28, 2022 in PS4 tagged brawler / fighting / fighting force / final fight / gangs / isometric / midnight fight express by Richie

I haven’t play a WWE wrestling game since Smackdown 2 on the Playstation but I’d always heard in passing about Visual Concepts tribulations with the license. I’ve been aware of the animation glitches, the bugs and the general sentiment that the games became too complicated over time. This all […]

WWE 2K22 – PS5 Review

March 13, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fighting / rey mysterio / royal rumble / tag team / visual concepts / wrestlemania / wrestling / wwe 2k22 by Mike

Okinawa Rush is a 2D beat ’em up from London-based Sokaikan Limited. Released on Steam back in May 2021, it garnered decent reviews before reaching a wider audience thanks to a Switch release in October the same year. But now it’s here on PS4 and we have to say, we […]

Okinawa Rush – PS4 Review

February 7, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / Beat em up / coin-op / fighting / karate / okinawa rush / shinobi / street fighter 2 by Richie

Override: Mech City Brawl had some neat ideas but a bland single-player experience and a barren mutliplayer resulted in a half-baked experience. Now Modus are back with an expanded sequel. With a bigger focus on multiplayer competition, Override 2: Super Mech League looks to deliver some simple but nuanced combat […]

Override 2: Super Mech League – PS4 Review

December 28, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arena battle / brawler / fighting / local co-op / modus / online multiplayer / override 2 super mech league / robots by Mike

We’ve reviewed Netherrealm’s spectacularly gory fighting game, Mortal Kombat 11, previously, along with its Aftermath DLC but both have made it across to the PS5 as part of this, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate. What you get for your money is the original game, the DLC and the two Kombat packs which add a […]

Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate – PS5 Review

November 28, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Beat em up / fighting / gore / mortal kombat 11 / netherrealm by Richie

We recently were invited by Modus to participate in a closed beta for Override 2: Mech City League. The original game had some neat ideas but the clunky nature of the combat wasn’t to everyone’s tastes. With the opportunity to sit down and play some online multiplayer, the sequel looks […]

Override 2: Mech City League – PS4 Preview

November 19, 2020 in Previews / PS4 tagged arena fighter / fighting / modus / online multiplayer / override mech city league / robots by Mike

While Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (or even Renegade, Kunio‘s Western name) might not mean much to younger gamers, anyone who walked into an arcade in the ’80s or had one of the home computers of the era will be very familiar with them. They were beat ’em ups, fighting games where it wasn’t just a 1 […]

Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle – PS4 Review

February 27, 2020 in PS4 tagged compilation / fighting / NES / retro by Richie

As massive fans of Mortal Kombat X, the first Mortal Kombat game since Trilogy on the PS1 that we’ve actually loved (although we did like the spin-off Shaolin Monks), we’ve had a lot of our hopes and expectations pinned on Mortal Kombat 11, the latest in the long-running series of […]

Mortal Kombat 11 – PS4 Review

April 30, 2019 in PS4 tagged Beat em up / fighting / get over here / mortal kombat 11 / netherrealm by Richie