OMGJeremy

Humpday Gaming: Rise 2: Resurrection

So what happens when you make one of the worst fighting games of all time (Rise of the Robots), have received nothing but negative reviews since it was released, and is generally regarded as a joke among gamers. Do you:

• A: Learn from your mistakes, and make a better game.

or:

• B: Make the same exact game again, just somehow worse.

Well if you answered A, then you obviously have never heard of Acclaim, who went out of their way to never learn from any of their mistakes. Thus, Acclaim decided to let Mirage Studios (the developers of the original game) release Rise 2: Resurrection for the then new Playstation and Saturn consoles. While the developers were finally able to realize the graphic fidelity they strove for in the first game, it still didn’t matter, as the game was still just a shell of a fighting game.

Mirage Studios seemed to take the “more is bound to make things better” approach, and tossed in a decent selection of robots to fight the anemic roster of the first Rise. But the problem still came from the strange designs the robots had, many of which had hit boxes (the area where the character could be hit from the other player) the size of Texas, instantly making them useless to play as. They even thought it would be cool to make one character have a “virus,” so he would suddenly go apeshit randomly throughout the match for no reason. I don’t even have to tell you how stupid of an idea that is. Oh, and the control was still viscerally stiff, which made doing anything with your big honkin’ robot a complete pain in the ass.

After Rise 2 bombed on shelves (even the reviled Street Fighter The Movie outsold it), nothing else was ever heard from the series. Occasionally only mentioned in dark alleys, or loose threats against drunk friends, the Rise of the Robots series will forever remain nothing more than a joke of a fighting game thanks to a developer refusing to sacrifice vision for gameplay.