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 Live Arcade
ReleaseSeptember 24, 2013
Genre(s) Fighting game
Mode(s)Single-player, multplayer

Girl Fight is a 2013 erotic fighting game developed by MicroProse and Kung Fu Factory. It was released on September 24, 2013, for PlayStation 3, and the following day for Xbox 360 Live Arcade. [1] 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". [1]

Nikola Suprak of Hardcore Gamer rated it 2/5 points, calling it "like 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. [2] 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". [3] 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. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Girl Fight (PlayStation 3 )". Metacritic. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
    - "Girl Fight (Xbox 360)". Metacritic. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  2. Suprak, Nikola (October 26, 2013). "Review: Girl Fight". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  3. Kemps, Heidi (October 21, 2013). "Girl Fight review". Official Xbox Magazine . Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  4. 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.