This collection bundles two PS1-era brawlers from Core Design and Eidos. Fighting Force (1997) pits a team of four fighters against Dr. Dex Zeng, a rogue scientist plotting to destroy civilization to fulfill a failed apocalyptic prophecy, across settings ranging from city streets to his island headquarters. Fighting Force 2 (1999) drops the ensemble cast for mercenary Hawk Manson, sent to investigate a corporation's illegal human cloning research in a near-future setting.
The original Fighting Force is a 3D beat-'em-up in the vein of Streets of Rage, letting up to two players choose from four characters with unique moves and special attacks, smash apart destructible environments, and pick up everything from soda cans to car engines as weapons. Fighting Force 2 keeps the hand-to-hand and weapons-based combat but restructures it around a single protagonist, larger levels, and an expanded arsenal, dropping the co-op multiplayer of the first game.
This is Limited Run Games release #311, a numbered physical edition for Nintendo Switch.
