Fatal Fury Special

[Melf]

Want more fighting games? Haven't gotten enough of SNK's rowdy bunch of brawlers? Then maybe you need to try Fatal Fury Special for the Sega CD... or maybe not. It's not all it's cracked up to be, which is downright sad. You've probably seen this disappointment before, but just in case we've got you covered with our complete write up (http://www.sega-16.com/forum/../Review-%20Fatal%20Fury%20Special.htm).

[Joe Redifer]

Both ports were handled by European development house FunCom
That's probably a big reason that this game disappoints. Would you trust anyone who calls themselves "FunCom"? No, of course not. Anyone called "FunCom" is to be hated, even if they have never done anything.

What I've noticed about CD fighting games vs cartridge fighting games is that they are disproportionate as far as memory is concerned. Fatal Fury 2 has 24 megs and it sems to work out OK. But Fatal Fury Special can use up to 6 megs per match and they still need to reduce the animation terribly. I think they use some form of compression on the cartridge versions... mostly because they have to. If only they would apply this same compression to the 6 megs being used at any given time on the CD versions. Maybe that's not someting they can do with CD since each character must be loaded separately.

[Mendicant]

Sometimes, having too much resources to work with can do more harm than good. Just look at "Batman: Revenge Of The Joker"... :D