Bass Strike

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Bass Strike
BASS Strike PS2 Box Art.jpg
European PlayStation 2 cover art
Developer(s) Pai Inc.
Publisher(s) THQ
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release
  • NA: October 4, 2001 [1]
  • EU: December 7, 2001
  • AU: December 14, 2001 [2]
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player

Bass Strike, often stylized as BASS Strike, is a fishing video game for the PlayStation 2 platform, released in 2001. In Japan, Capcom and Pai Corporation published and distributed the game. [3]

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Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [4] In Japan, where the game was ported and published by Capcom on February 14, 2002, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40. [6]

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