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.

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