Girl Fight (video game)

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Girl Fight
Girl Fight 2013 Xbox 360 Live Arcade Cover Art.jpg
Developer(s) MicroProse, Kung Fu Factory
Publisher(s) Majesco Entertainment
Platform(s) PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
ReleasePlayStation 3
  • NA: September 24, 2013 [1]
  • EU: October 2, 2013 [2]
Xbox 360
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Girl Fight is a 2013 erotic fighting game developed by MicroProse and Kung Fu Factory. It was released in September 2013 for PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network and for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. The game received negative reviews from critics, calling it low-budget and poorly made while criticizing its emphasis on sexual aspects.

Reception

Girl Fight received an aggregate score of 35/100 for the PlayStation 3 version and 34/100 for the Xbox 360 version, both indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [3] [4]

Nikola Suprak of Hardcore Gamer rated it 2/5 points, likening it to "a dumb version of Dead or Alive ". He criticized the enemy AI as "awful" even on the hardest difficulty, and noted a lack of different fighting moves between characters. [5] Heidi Kemps of Official Xbox Magazine rated it 3.5/10 points, calling it "stupefyingly unattractive" and "hilariously un-sexy" despite its supposed emphasis on sex appeal, and calling Skullgirls and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate "far superior products". [6] Lorenzo Baldo of IGN Italia rated the game 4/10 points, calling it "disgraceful" and immature, and saying that feminists would be right to be angry about the game. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 O'Connor, Alice (September 24, 2013). "Girl Fight brings fighting girls to PS3 today, XBLA tomorrow". Shacknews . Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  2. Barker, Sammy (October 2, 2013). "Store Update: 2nd October 2013 (Europe)". Push Square . Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Girl Fight (PlayStation 3 )". Metacritic . Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Girl Fight (Xbox 360)". Metacritic . Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  5. 1 2 Suprak, Nikola (October 26, 2013). "Review: Girl Fight". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  6. 1 2 Kemps, Heidi (October 21, 2013). "Girl Fight review". Official Xbox Magazine . Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  7. 1 2 Baldo, Lorenzo (October 22, 2013). "Girl Fight nasce tondo, ma non è quadrato" [Girl Fight was born round, but it's not square]. IGN Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2022.