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Another horrible movie to game adaptation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great...if you have never played any of the Mortal Kombat games for Super Nintendo. There's supposedly a 'story' mode, but it's just fight after fight along with some retro frozen screen River City Ransom translations. And, the story mode is ridiculously short...I was able to beat the story mode in a little over a half hour.
I am Jack's annoyance at playing this game.

I really don't like Vivendi now

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It disgusts me that they would make a dinky fighter out of such a revolutionary movie.

Horrible game from one of the best movies ever...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll make this short and sweet...

This game blows from clunky bad controls to the "obviosly showing" unfinsished gameplay and desighn. Save your self from playing this garbage..

Get the film it's excellent..

Lates

WHYeeeeeeeeee!?!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

That was my screeming little girl voice you heard the other night after playing this game. I was excited to see a fight club game coming out! I wanted this to be at least an ok game. Here's whats what. The story mode is too short. The "make your own fighter" is extreemly limited. Control is a bit off. They put a nice dent in the movie making this. I hope Chuck P. (The guy that wrote the book befor it was a movie) urinates all over this in a public place for everyone to see. I don't know if he actually cares if this was a failure, so I think I'll take this to a public place and do my thing on it for him. Read the book. Watch the movie. Skip the painful game.

Beyond bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 24
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To say the idea of making a video game based on Fight Club raised an eye brow was saying it lightly. What could have been an otherwise decent fighting game is loaded with glitches, bugs, horrible controls, blocky graphics, and a lame fighting engine. Not to mention that since the game's license, based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk and the revolutionary film, is the main selling point of the game, if you took away the license this would just be a run of the mill fighter that is a wonder it ever got approved for production. None of the fighters, save for Bob, look like their movie counterparts, which isn't surprising, but it would have been nice (you can only beat up Fred Durst so many times). Also, each fighter's moves are so generic and similar to each other that it seems like not much thought had been put into the game. All in all, fans of the book and movie who may have wanted to check this out are better off leaving this on the shelf where it belongs, it's not even worth renting.

Weak Sauce

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a gamer and a Fight Club fan, I was excited to hear a game was coming out and couldn't wait to see how well they would transcend the movie into the video game world. I had high hopes for it. As a book as well written and a movie as well done as Fight Club, you'd just expect it to be good. By the time I had enough money to rent it, I had heard all the bad reviews for it. I decided to check it out anyway. And yes, all the previous reviewers were right. The game is just not well done at all. I mean, it had a few kind of fun moments while playing like breaking bones or bashing heads, but after you play it for so long, you realy feel like you are wasting your time. No lasting play value what so ever. None of the characters really look like the ones from the film, not enough environments, the moves are made for people who just press buttons and I really think they were doing us all a favor by making the story mode really short becuase it wasn't really a story mode at all. Just dialogue and CG stills that led you to your next repetitive fight. Did I mention Fred Durst sucks? I'd rather have ICP. I'm glad I only rented it and I feel really bad for those who rushed out and spent the 50 bucks on it.

Leaves the (strong) impression of being unfinished...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 21
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'll start off saying that even though it was clear that a video game based upon Fight Club would upset a whole lot of people, I don't want to relate it to the film, because this is a video game and it doesn't have to be that close to the movie to be good. Yes, Fight Club is a cult film for many people...it is a very good film (it's not the MASTERPIECE many pretend it to be, and some people seem to have understood how it works in the world only after seeing that particular film, but still, it has good ideas, has great camerawork, acting and vehiculates some interesting values, though anyone could easily argue against the whole anti-superficial message it contains, only by mentionning the shot where we see Brad Pitt shirtless, who has exactly the same body than the Calvin Klein model he criticizes in the bus)...

Anyways, even if all those anti-society values could never be brought into a videogame, the idea of making a raw, gritty and realistic fighting game sounded pretty cool to me...until I saw the final result, which, by the way, leaves the bad aftertaste of an unfinished product.

I didn't care if it was a "disgrace" to the social issues of the movie, that was not the point at all...The first five minutes I tried it, I had done all the possible moves of one of the three fighting styles...there are really just a few...so, it got repetitive really fast. Then, I decided to try other fighters, which all happened to be exactly the same thing: either a grappler, a martial artist, or a brawler...so, you could easily say that there are only three fighters in this game.

In the story mode, the cutscenes are incredibly awful...no animations, just "pictures" with ridiculous voices and even worse dialog.

Then, I remembered some of the things that gave me so much hype for that title; the limb-breaking system, the facial deformation and ripped clothes during the fights, the blood pouring into the camera...The first one is cool...before you realize there are only three animations of limb-breaking per character (that's not bad, but I'll have to add that the animation for the arm is the same for every character, and the two other limb-breaking moves are the same for half of the fighters...the other half has two others, but they're the same too). Then, about the facial damage, it is cool, but very hard to notice and I haven't seen any ripped clothes or any blood other than on faces and bruises on the backs of fighters...that's it. As for the blood on the camera's "lens", it has a shocking effect the first time you see it, but it gets old fast.

So, for what were supposed to be innovations, it's pretty much a deception. Add to that a very limited selection of fighters (10 at first and 4 unlockable, but it equals three anyways) and awful sound effects (well, some of the sounds do give the hits an impact, but it's nothing spectacular, and sometimes there's just no sound at all!). It's almost funny: before every fight, you see your character walking towards the camera with a tough guy face and saying stuff, but you never get to hear anything, you just see their lips move...ridiculous.

In the graphics' department, Fight Club is not that bad overall...yes, the cutscenes look like crap, the characters have a very plastic feel when seen at close range, but the models look pretty good during the fights, and the menus are pretty cool...Also, one of the few "good" surprises Fight Club offers is the Survival mode (which replaces the terrible story mode, which is a pure shame that (un)fortunately takes only about 15 minutes to finish). You "create" your fighter (that means you choose between 3 body types, 3 hair colors, and three pants colors) and gain points confronting fighters one after the other, recovering only a portion of the health you've previously lost between the fights. With these points, you can upgrade one of your fighter's five attributes and get better and better...and be able to win more consecutive fights...pointless eh!? That's the best thing Fight Club has to offer...there's also a hospital, in which you can get some broken bones fixed, if you ever have any...that's about it.

Another problem with this game is the physics. Sometimes, you'll send a weak kick to your opponent, and he'll fly ten feet away from you. Also, the supposedly interactive backgrounds are pretty deceiving...there's rarely stuff breaking up, and you can't take any object and smash it on your enemy's face...nothing. Some of them look good though, but basically they're all the same, as for fighters.

The only good point is the music, which is good, moody, but, again, limited to three or four tracks...

So, how could anyone ever expect someone to pay seventy bucks for a game that has about half-an-hour of half-fun to offer...the possibilities are SO limited, it's horrible...everyone who plays this game will get tired of it on the first day...it truly is unacceptable to release such an unfinished product...this truly looks like a very first demo of a game in development that could have had potential...but no, it's in stores now, and they really were dumb enough to consider this as the final product...This is a major deception, in all departments, and I find it really upsetting to see such a mediocre and unfinished game on stores' shelves...what were they thinking when they released that and considered it as a final product?

The 9th rule of Fight Club is Don't Buy The Video Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fight club is one of my favorite movies of all time. So, when I found out there was a video game coming out, let me tell you, I was excited. Then I rented it from the video store to try it out, and my dreams were all smashed. The game starts with a beautiful CGI cut scene that got me really pumped... only to find out the rest of the cut scenes were pictures with voiceover, minus the last one. I began playing, and found that the gameplay is terrible. Limited moves, limited control, it's just bad. When I actually started paying attention to the storyline... the only thought that came to my head is that they gave a child inflicted with Down Syndrome the movie and said "Write a plot for a video game" The characters in the game, though from the movie, hardly look like them, with only exception being Bob's chest. And after the 40 minutes it took to beat the game... sitting through the wretched thing... do you know what I get? Fred Durst? Who the hell would want to fight as Fred Durst? Give me Marla, Give me Jack's Boss, Give me the dude with the things in his head. Not Fred Durst. Terrible, Just Terrible.

The worst online fighting game ever.........

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I knew when I got this game that there was something about it despite that I did like the movie. this game really has nothing to do with the movie. the production and the way this game was put together was poor. the graphics, sound, gameplay all factor in why i have generously gave this game 1 star. I figured I didn't like the fighting style of the game and gameplay and desided to go online......... like a ghost town. nobody plays this online?? that's weird that this was just released and nobody uses the online option, could be because people are getting rid of these. stand clear of this game. This is a BIG joke!!!!

deception

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: January 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the Fight Club movie, and when I heard there was a game coming I got really excited. Finally I would play as Jack and "destroy something beautiful".
When the game came out I went to the store, took a look at the box and read that there was a Story mode, where you could fight your way into fight club...I never thought it would be so literal.
The thing is I bought the game, went home and put it in my system. It seemed pretty cool until I took a look at the fighters... only a few, and pretty cheaply done. I thought "What the hell, it's not the fact of paying some dudes to use their faces what makes a good game" I started a fight in Practice mode as Jack, and then realized that the ones that "destroyed something beautiful" were the people who made the game. Crappy moves, and the "good ones" are very hard to do.. and they're not that good.
Well, then I went to Story mode, willing to work in something like the "Latte Thunder" mission... I was wrong. A video started, and then a fight. I could've ended the whole game with my eyes closed (literally).
I took the game out of the console, put it in it's box and it has been out of it only like three times... and that's when a friend comes and wants to try it.
Moral Lesson: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

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