Battle Beast (video game)

Battle Beast
North American cover
Developer(s) 7th Level
Publisher(s) BMG Interactive
Platform(s) MS-DOS, Windows, Mac OS
Release 1995
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer

Battle Beast is a side-scrolling fighting game released for the PC in 1995.

Gameplay

In the style of Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, a player can play against another human opponent or computer-controlled opponents in different levels using hand-to-hand combat, special moves and weapons to defeat each other.

Reception

Reviewing the Windows version, a Next Generation critic called Battle Beast "an incredibly fun and visually stunning fighting game". He complimented the play control, numerous secrets, and most especially the cute, humorous animation, concluding that "At its heart it's still just another 2D fighter, but its light-hearted feel gives it an edge over many of the others out there." He awarded it 3 out of 5 stars.[1]

Entertainment Weekly gave the game a B and wrote that "Mortal Wombat anyone? This superbly designed, relatively nonviolent fighting game features cute, furry creatures that morph into mechanized brawlers, and its 7th Level pedigree (from the producer of Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time disc) guarantees plenty of laughs before and after rounds. But ultimately any game of this kind has to be judged by the quality of its one-on-one combat, and here Battle Beast suffers a KO. While it's a kick to sic a mutant puppy on an equally bloodthirsty turtle, I only wish that the aggravatingly un-responsive joystick commands matched the quality of the animation."[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Battle Beast". Next Generation. No. 12. Imagine Media. December 1995. p. 188.
  2. ↑ https://ew.com/article/1995/09/22/battle-beast/
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