Fighting games are covering the hand to hand fight and close combat games.
Beat them up
This is mostly a 1Vs1 fighting game. Yet more exotic variant may occur such as IK+ which is 1vs1vs1 game.
Examples include :
- Barbarian (from Palace software, violent beheading sword fights)
- Panza kick boxing (obvious)
- IK+ (Karate)
- Budokan (mixed asian martial arts, armed or un-armed)
- Karateka (obviously)
- Uchi-Mata (Judo)
Beat them all
This is mostly a Player vs many enemies configurations, often involving scrolling through levels and levels Boss, and saving a sexy girl before she gets raped or even worse.
Examples include :
- Double dragon
- Kung-Fu master
- Dragon ninja
This subgenre is often mixed with other styles and includes same mechanics such as platformers or shooters games.
Displays
This can be 2D (plateform-like) despite graphics having a deepth feeling.
- Dragon ninja
- Kung-Fu Master
Or pseudo 3D, mostly using horizontal yet Isometric/Oblique backgrounds
- Renegade series
- Double dragon
- WWF superstars
Multi player
Of course such game is better with a multiplayer option.
- Beat them up often involve Player1 vs Player2 multiplayer mode.
- Beat them all often involve a co-operative Players Vs environment multiplayer mode.
Break it all
- Rampage is some sort of this.
This games allowed 3 players modes, the aim was to destroy buildings, survive, eat soldiers and destroy Army vehicules.
Also this game allowed players to fight each others while doing all those things in a MonsterRumble way.
Video
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