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    The Outfoxies

    Game » consists of 1 releases. Released 1994

    The mysterious Mr. Acme has arranged for seven professional assassins to fight each other to the death in this unique 2D arcade fighting game (seen as the precursor to other popular platform-based fighting games).

    riostarwind's The Outfoxies (Arcade) review

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    Mini Review: The Outfoxies

    The stages and the characters in this game make it look better than it really is. The cast is really diverse with a monkey named Mr Dweeb being a notable highlight. This game is a fighting game but the focus is on picking up weapons to take out your opponent instead of fighting in the traditional way. Which also makes the game feel really slow since each shot from a gun gives the opponent a few seconds of invincibility. But on the plus side each level in this game is unique with it's own set of environmental challenges depending on the stage. Like the skyscraper level that slowly blows up or even fighting on a boat that is constantly moving.

    Playing this in a arcade made me question why they put plastic guns on the side. Because it is truly a pointless gimmick that lets you fire the guns in the game instead of using standard buttons.Even when using the normal controls the game feels slow with very little variation on how the player deals with each fight. It just comes down to how well the player uses the rocket launcher most of the time. Even with the nice graphics and the great premise it just couldn't follow through with a fun to play game. I won't say this isn't at least worth checking out just don't expect it to hold your interest for very long.

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      Can You Outfox The Outfoxies? 0

      While The Outfoxies may be obscure to some, it was a part of my childhood. Back in '95 or '96, when the Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat 3 machines had lines that stretched seemingly to eternity, salvation came to fighting game fans in the form of The Outfoxies. It was fun and different, whereas in those early days of versus fighters, the "other stuff" (sadly, including some of SNK's best) were known as "Street Fighter ripoffs".Word of mouth brought The Outfoxies to the forefront, and even th...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

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