Pit-Fighter

Review

by Brett Alan Weiss

One of the ugliest digitized games ever produced, the graphics in Pit-Fighter are blocky and fuzzy and the animation is jerky. The characters look vaguely like smaller versions of the humans from the Mortal Kombat series, but they are so inferior graphically as to appear as though they were made for a much less powerful system. Not only are the fighters poorly rendered, they're generic and severely limited in fighting technique. The so-called super moves are totally lame. There's almost no strategy to use when playing this game other than to push the buttons really fast. Also, the fights are too easy to win.

The spectators move around more than your average background characters, and it's cool that they shove you back into the fight if you get too close to them, but this hardly makes up for the lameness of the graphics and the unsatisfying fighting experience. Picture Shaq-Fu with hurriedly produced digitized graphics and choppy character movement, and you've got a pretty good idea of what this game is like. The two-on-two mode in Pit-Fighter is common to wrestling games but unique to fighting games. Even so, I'll take quality over uniqueness any day.

As you fight, there are plenty of convincing grunts and groans, but the voices are weak and repetitive. Also, the music is simplistic and devoid of emotion.

Forgettable characters with generic fighting moves combined with sloppy controls does not a good game make. If not for the rowdy crowd, the graphic violence, and the grunts and groans, this game would have absolutely no personality whatsoever. Play a game of Pit-Fighter right after a couple of rounds of Mortal Kombat II, and you'll jerk it out of your Genesis and throw it to the floor in disgust.