Fire Fight Shareware Review

Fire Fight is a isometric shoot'em up from EA/Epic MegaGames, where you go around completing objectives against rebels by well blowing up stuff, or collect specific items, or people, to well blow more stuff up. Sometimes you have to rescue people, and that doesn't involve blowing up stuff, just other fighters that get in your way.

Your Jaxon a pilot working for the Phantom Council (sounds vague and ominous). You fly something called a "99". You have six weapons, a vulcan cannon, swarm missiles (homing micro-missiles), a plasma cannon, missiles (regular homing missiles), a cannon, and grenades. Your supporting cast includes a bald dude as your commanding officer, and a redhead female for mission control, and a blonde flattop haircut SpecOps dude I'm guessing named Stone in mission 3. (There isn't much info on the story in the documentation, and I won't go to GameFAQs for a demo, not unless it's that important.)


Gameplay:
Controls are excellent, enemy variety is about four to five different craft types in the demo, they kind of look like Kilrathi fighters from the Wing Commander games but that okay. It's fun to play and blow up stuff in a fighter, outnumber as usual. The action is addicting, and well blowing up stuff is fun.

Aging:
When the shareware version is 320 x 240 on a flatscreen monitor it doesn't look as good when compared to a VGA/SVGA monitor in 1996, but the gameplay makes up for it easily, as you'll be blasting things to much to care much about such trivial things. Gameplay holds up good after thirteen years.

Sound:
The music for the shareware is MIDI format. It's nothing special to write home about but the generic action music does it job for setting the action based mood. The voice acting isn't to bad, but it doesn't really strike me as good.

Overall:
This game is pretty good and probably be worth picking up, from amazon, ebay, craig's list, or a used software store on a long shot. The gameplay makes up for any medoricty overall, and besides everyone loves a shooter if the gameplay is fun and fast.

You can still find it on the internet pretty easily at like CNet and places like that.

Well see you next time with another review at the Anicent Demos and Shareware.

Fire Fight Demo Footage:

Review criteria

The review criteria is going to be a little different then most places, it's going to be on four criteria:

-Gameplay
-How well it aged or Aging
-Sound
-Overall

I don't consider graphics a huge factor since these are really old game demos. Sound on the other hand can be quite catchy despite the years that go by. I consider gameplay the most important factor when playing a game. Sure a game can look slick and pretty, but if it's boring or play shit forget it man.

Since the criteria has been laid down, the reviews will begin shortly.

Well since that said, I hope I have fun doing this side project of mine, because well it's a harmless hobby.

Welcome to misspelled domain titles and nostalgia

Hello I am Evil Imperial, retrogamer and poor speller.

Your wonder why I'm doing this blogging about old game demos and shareware games, and why did you misspell your title on the word ancient.

The shareware era of the early to mid-ninites is where many gamers got started playing PC games, and well that's when I started. To me it's a nostalgic era of gaming where many people game to age playing games.

Also I'm also a lazy spellchecker, that's why ancient is misspelled for the domain, and well's it to late to fix that, beside it gives the blog a little character or so I think.

I'm going to be reviewing mostly old shareware games and demos from the pre-2000 era with some exceptions from later years that are at least a few years old. Sit back, relax boot up your x86 series processor or run DOSBox or a similar emulator.

Welcome back to the era of the 3.5" Diskette, sub-14.4k modems, and BBSes (Sadly I never used them, but well it was popular back then).

Welcome to Anicent Demos and Shareware.

Enjoy the trip down memory lane, and remember to wear you safety helmet and seatbelt as well things tend not to age nicely.