ClickBOOM's game Capital Punishment is technically as good as Fighting Spirit, but the latter one really has style and design. Capital Punishment is a really outstanding beat-em-up, with spooky sounds and atmospheric visual effects, but the playability is another issue, and in this particular issue, Fighting Spirit clearly has the edge. It plays exactly like a console or arcade beat-em-ups, it makes use of the two buttons on a joypad or more buttons if you use a CD32 joypad, no more stupid "one-button-does-all-moves-in-a-weird-way" like in every other Amiga beat-em-up.

 

  • For 1 or 2 or two players
  • 256 colour arcade style graphics
  • 12 fighters with over 30 different moves
  • In game speech with vocal sound track
  • Story mode, tag team, and knock out tournament

 

Released by Alive Mediasoft.

Fightin' Spirit is considered the best beat'em up ever written for the Amiga. The first thing you can notice is the (AGA) graphics, they have exactly the same quality and style as Arcade games from SNK (Neo Geo) such as Fatal Fury 2, King of Fighters, World Heroes...big and colourful characters, smooth scrolling, perhaps the characters are the biggest ever seen in an Amiga game. The backgrounds graphics are beautiful, with excellent detail and some animations.