Fur Fighters (PC)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars Good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 6.1 (3.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Michael Ryan
• Reviewed on: 12/06/2000
• Updated on: 05/17/2006
• Released on: 11/24/2000
• Originally published on GameSpot: Fur Fighters (PC) Review

Fur Fighters is the PC port of a game released for the Dreamcast console earlier this year. It's a cutesy third-person shooter that pits a band of heroic stuffed animals against the villainous General Viggo and his army of Stupid Bears. While the game has its merits, it really doesn't have the firepower necessary to make an impact in the PC shooter market.

The game begins with General Viggo - who appears to be a cougar or some similar creature - kidnapping all of the babies from a small village. This village is the home of the Fur Fighters, a small group of stuffed animals that apparently have military training. Viggo plans to take over the world, and he doesn't want the Fur Fighters interfering, so he hopes to keep the babies hostage to force the Fur Fighters to stand down until his plans for global domination are realized. It wouldn't be much of a game if his scheme worked, so you take control of a Fur Fighter and begin the two-pronged quest: Save the babies, and defeat General Viggo.

The Fur Fighters team includes six members: Roofs the dog, Chang the fox, Juliette the cat, Rico the penguin, Bungalow the dim-witted kangaroo, and Tweek the dragon. Under the supervision of General Bristol the walrus, you must guide all of these creatures during the course of the game. Much like in the console game Donkey Kong 64, certain areas of Fur Fighters are only accessible by certain members of the team. So when you need to reach a particularly high place, you'll rely on Bungalow's jumping skill. Or when you need to swim underwater you'll rely on Rico. At key points in the game's 30 levels, teleporters let you switch the team member you control. Each teleporter is set up for a specific character, so if you enter an area where you need Juliette's climbing ability, a teleporter for her will be somewhere nearby.

The gameplay itself is a cross between a typical shooter and a platform game. You'll run into plenty of enemies to shoot, and you have access to more than 20 weapons with which to shoot them. However, most of the time, instead of just fighting you'll be picking up power-ups and tokens that help unlock additional levels of the game. Having to go out of your way to open later levels becomes fairly tedious early on, especially when you have to follow an otherwise silly path - such as going through countless levels of a fire escape - to track down some tokens. Of course, you'll also be spending your time trying to find the missing babies, which can only be rescued by the team member that matches their species. So when you stumble across a puppy, you need to control Roofus to free the little tyke.

The combat is not particularly difficult in Fur Fighters, so long as you know how to strafe. The enemies will dodge a rocket every once in a while and roll out of the way, but overall the enemies are not very crafty. Veterans of shooters will have little difficulty mowing down the meddlesome bears while searching for babies and tokens.

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