Trivia
Alpha version
In November 2008, thanks to
Hidden Palace and its community, an alpha version of
Judgement Force was leaked to the public. It can be played in any unmodified Saturn and shows the advanced stage in which the game was already at late 1996. Curiously, you can see that even if the original title (
Streets of Rage 3D) was replaced, it still kept the same energy bar fonts of the original
Streets of Rage series
Characters
The character Allana McKendrik is based on the real life Playboy model and Page 3 girl Zoe Gregory Paul.
Development
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.
Graphics
Fighting Force was one of the first games to need a 3d acceleration card, which though weren't really popular yet back then. (Some months later everyone had such a card though)
Information also contributed by
Kohler 86 and
Roger Wilco
