2d Fighter Maker 2002 Download
Tanja Freeze
2D Fighter Maker 95 (FM95) was released for Windows prior to ASCII's departure from gaming. Unlike its PlayStation counterparts, this version focused on 2D-style gameplay, allowing the user to create and import their own characters, sounds and graphics into the engine, allowing for far more flexibility and range than the PS versions. The program was pirated and fan translated to English and released on the Internet, where it found a large following amongst dojin game makers and the M.U.G.E.N. community.
Fighter Maker could be described as having two different parts. There's the fighting aspect of the game and the design aspect of the game. Those of you who don't want to deal with the tedious character creation process can simply jump into the horribly bland fighting game, at least for the entire six levels that it offers before you've beaten the game. There are no hidden characters, no end boss, and you only fight a fraction of your available characters before the game is over. The edit mode lets you tweak every aspect of your fighter, such as stance, attacks, victory dance, and throws. Once you've tweaked your character to your liking, you can try the moves out in a test session. If that works out well for you, you can set the logic behind the character; in other words, you can determine how a computer-controlled version of your character will react, percentage-wise, in response to his opponent's current activity.
Neither mode is good enough to stand on its own. The edit mode is confusing, frustrating, and in the end, self-defeating, while the fighting mode is lackluster, boring, and laughably short. The game comes with a distinct fighting style for each fighter, which can be loaded from the CD and modified in the edit mode. Most of the moves are lifted directly from one of the Tekken games, with a few pleasant exceptions. The ironic part is that there are so many moves already in the game that unless you know some exotic fighting style or have a crazy imagination, the move you'd want to create is already included in the game in some form.
This game provides examples of:
- Afro Asskicker: Andreas Gotz sports this hairstyle.
- Anime Hair: While almost every character averts this, one notable character that plays this straight is Michael Sypher as can be seen here.
- Ass Shove: In Fighter Maker for the PlayStation, It's possible to create a long and intricate fatality attack that ends with a deadly kancho. Observe. StolenFridge: Is this Fist of the North Star? Sniperblast: More like Fist of the South Moon
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Some characters who wear some snazzy (though not, ahem, suitable for fighting) suits include Andreas Gotz, Jennifer Lloyd, and Michael Sypher.
- Character Customization: While the appearance of the fighters can't be changed, the moves can be edited however a player pleases ranging versions of various common moves (e.g. punch, kick, throws), to the range of attacks, amount of damage they can inflict and etc. Some elaboration on this here for those who are curious.
- Cool Shades: Worn by Keith Storm and Sergei Gorchev.
- Death from Above: Again, Fighter Maker for the PlayStation. It's possible to create an attack where your character shoots up into the air, soars in place for a few seconds, then dive-bomb the opponent headfirst.
- Game Maker: Specifically devoted to the crafting of fighting games and also unique as a commercially available software in contrast to freeware programs such as M.U.G.E.N. They didn't necessarily allow you to create a full game from scratch, the fighting engine you're given to work with is pretty basic, and creating fluid, realistic animations for moves was an extremely long and often tedious process, with the tradeoff being that if you could think it up, you could put it in the game.
- Guest Fighter: Skullomania from the Street Fighter EX games (and much later Fighting EX Layer) is included as a guest fighter in the first Fighter Maker game (but only on the Japanese version).
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: While the characters featured have default names, those names (and just about all other biographical info such as their nationality, birth date, blood type, hobby, and etc.) can be changed to whatever the player wishes.
- Obvious Beta: If you half-ass your characters' moves, the game can actually end up looking like one.
- Virtual Paper Doll: Something of a reverse in comparison to other fighting games. Instead of creating a character from the ground up and giving the character another pre-existing characters abilities and/or fighting style (e.g. Soul Series), it has a cast of pre-made characters (For interest in those characters are available here and here) that serves as templates whose moves and animations are up to players to make and edit as they please. Played straight in the second game which lets you customize faces and clothing, although male and female characters each have a single height and body type that cannot be changed.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Several of the male characters of which include Archey, El Bushido, Faleh Al-Falch, Ginzou Kamada, Kazuki Togo, and Septiego.
Fighter Maker (FM for short), known as 3D Fighter Maker in Japan, was one of the few PlayStation games that ran at 60 fps, mainly due to its simplistic graphics. Part of Agetec Inc.'s Designer Series, it is 3D-based and allows users to create custom moves for their fighters. Despite the unique concept, the game received very bad reviews as there was little to do once a fighter had been created. A custom made character occupies an entire Memory Card. This game is also known for having one licensed character, Street Fighter EXs Skullomania (named Skullo Mania in-game), complete with original move list.
Edit mode is the main draw of this game. It lets players create a fighter by editing one of the fighters already in the game. The player can edit a characters profile, set which button combo executes which move, and how much damage it does. Players can also change a character's martial arts style, and then change the way the frames of animation follow through. The player can edit over 800 different moves from 20 different fighting styles.
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