Fighting Force is a 3D fighting "beat-em-up" in which the player can choose to control one of the four available characters. Each of the characters has his or her own advantages and weaknesses (e.g. superior strength but slow movement), and each possesses a powerful special move that depletes their health. Besides fists, they can use objects such as chairs, trash cans, and car tires, and weapons such as knives to fight the minions of the evil criminal mastermind Dr. Zeng who aspires to control the city.

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Alternate Titles

"Streets of Rage 3D" -- Working title
"Metal Fist" -- Japanese PlayStation title
"Judgement Force" -- Saturn working title (unreleased)
"Fighting Force 64" -- Nintendo 64 title
"メタルフィスト" -- Japanese spelling

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Fighting Force	Nintendo 64	$7.95
	Fighting Force	PlayStation	$1.45
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PC Zone	Windows	Aug 13, 2001	8.8 out of 10	88
Gamezilla	PlayStation	1997	78 out of 100	78
PC Jeux	Windows	Jan, 1998	72 out of 100	72
PC Action	Windows	Apr 15, 1998	64.5 out of 100	64
Svenska PC Gamer	Windows	Apr, 1998	62 out of 100	62
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation	Dec 09, 2009	12 out of 20	60
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Apr 01, 1998	60 out of 100	60
IGN	PlayStation	Nov 03, 1997	5.5 out of 10	55
GameSpot	PlayStation	Dec 01, 1997	5.3 out of 10	53
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Nintendo 64	May 12, 2006	3 out of 10	30

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Trivia

Core Design initially planned this game as a continuation of the Streets of Rage saga, for which they would also take advantage of the engine they created for Tomb Raider. The game was then called Streets of Rage 3D and was introduced to Sega in an almost finished state of development.

However, Sega did not want a sequel to the SoR franchise in 3D at the moment (or at least that's the rumour), so Core Design changed the title to Judgement Force, and it's under this name that a demo was released for the major videogame magazines (and even announced as "coming soon").

Still, despite all these changes, no Saturn version saw the light, and the game was ultimately released as Fighting Force for the Playstation and PC.

This was undoubtedly a major blow between the Sega-Core relationships, and it could be argued that it was for this reason that the Sega Saturn did not have its own Tomb Raider II.

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This entry was contributed by Charly2.0 (30160), Erwin Bergervoet (304) and Grant McLellan (546)