| What to you do you get when you make a bad conversion of a bad
game? You get a mess. You get Pit Fighter. Now, before we delve
into the Lynx version, let's take a look at it's arcade form. Pit
Fighter was, essentially, an attempt to make the "bar-room
brawl" into a videogame. You, and up to three players, fought
it out with thugs of all sorts. No ring, no rules. Just a rabid
crowd to form the barriers. And everything was fair play, if a
chair was lying around...bash it on someone's face. Sounds fun
doesn't it? Especially when I tell you that Pit Fighter sported
digital, Mortal Kombat-esque graphics and sound. Sounds durn fun,
don't it? Well think again. PF is best described as a "sloppy
mess". The graphics are choppy. The sound is vague and
confusing. And the characters bland and uninteresting. Remember,
this is the ARCADE we're talking about. In fact, Pit Fighter was,
justifiably, a flop. So why would they put this thing on the Lynx?
Don't ask me. It should have been obvious that even the Lynx
wasn't powerful enough to pull of PF's digital graphics. It should
have been obvious that the Lynx couldn't handle all the
characters. But they didn't listen. And what we got was
*terrible*.
GRAPHICS: Hey the graphics look pretty good, if they don't
move. Cuz once they do, it's a sprawling horror. The frame rate is
unbelievably bad. It's unwatchable, and the lack of color is
almost as bad. Everything looks like it was washed in browns and
tans. Yuck *
SOUNDS: I defy you to translate anything coming out of this
game. Every sound is a garbled mess. I'm not even sure there is
music in this game! It's that bad. Just grunts and screams. Then
again, you wouldn't expect much more coming out of a sleazy bar. *
CONTROL: This is a joke. It's not that the control itself is
bad. It's the graphics. Like I said, the frame rate in Pit Fighter
is unbearable. And it makes controlling your fighter *impossible*.
You can't tell the difference between a punch and kick. Let alone
where you are on the screen. *
REPLAY: You've got to be kinding me. This is a nightmare. I
gaurentee you'll develop pure hatred for this game in under two
minutes. *
Well after that I need a cold shower. Seriously...why did they
bother? This is not, and I repeat NOT what the Lynx is about.
There's only one game in the history of the Lynx that's worse. But
that's another review ;) As for Pit Fighter...it was an average
game, at best, in the arcades. Take away half of the animation,
run the sound through the ground and you expect people will like
it? Please.
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