As we’ve all known for about 10 years now, the first rule of Fight Club is “You don’t talk about Fight Club.” Coincidentally enough, this is also the second rule. From this, we learn that people who take heavy blows to the skull are (1) not historically known to be good list-makers and (2) not so hot at marketing. Take Sony and ColdWood Interactive’s The Fight for example. While the game is being sold as a gritty underground tournament brawler with HD graphics and 1:1 control fidelity, in reality it’s actually a very cleverly designed Trojan horse.
Yes, The Fight: Lights Out isn’t so much a fighting game as it is an cunningly disguised exercise title designed to appeal to macho males who find the prospect of using EA Sports Active or the Your Shape series too emasculating to bear. And to its credit, it does succeed in getting you to work up a sweat. That’s good, because as an enjoyable fighting game, it doesn’t really fly.
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