FX Fighter (OLD VERSION) PC Complete Playthrough - NintendoComplete
53A beginning to end playthrough of GTE's 1995 PC game FX Fighter.
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FX Fighter was a pretty highly anticipated game when it was first release in the early days of 3D PC gaming. Argonaut's announcement of a SNES release to showcase the FX chip's capabilities brought a lot of hype, and ultimately disappointed many when the game was cancelled.
The game's development continued for the PC platform, and it's 1995 release for DOS was met with a fair amount of acclaim. Hailed as being the PC's response to games like Tekken and Virtua Fighter, the smoothly animated texture mapped characters went a long way to silencing those that criticized the PC as a platform incapable of replicating the bleeding-edge arcade tech. The synth tracks were an excellent representation of the synth-based dance music that dominated the charts at the time, and though the gameplay was a bit simple and the AI was infuriatingly cheap on most of the difficulty levels, most that played it at the time still hold some pretty fond memories.
I also remember this game being an insane system hog. Back in 1995, I was able to run it with all of the graphics details set to their highest on a Pentium 75 with 16megs of memory, but it struggled to maintain a smooth frame rate (despite the fact that a Pentium 75 was still an incredibly expensive beast of a machine at the time). Cutting down the details helped smooth it out, but it still hurt that a $3000 had a hard time keeping up.
This is being played through DosBox, and these performance issues still persist. Though most of the fights are smooth, the final fight with Rigil eats the framerate pretty badly in spots. I can't help but think that this was just the game itself, and would be rough in places regardless of the hardware powering it. Anyways, this game did for PC 3D fighters what GameTek's Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo port did the same year for 2D games.
Hope you enjoy the video, playing it was a huge nostalgic rush :)
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