Brutal Paws Of Fury

STORY / GAMEPLAY
In Brutal Paws Of Fury you can choose a funny martial arts fighter among Kung-Fu Bunny, Tai Cheetach or Kendo Koyote! You fight your way through a competition to become the world's best fighter! The game's content might be pretty classic since all fighting games share similar characteristics. But this time, the novelty of fighting with furry creatures is not the only details that makes this game differ from the other fighting games. The unique part in Brutal Paws Of Fury is that you must learn special moves as your character gains more experience by winning fights (while in the Mortal Kombat and the Street Fighter series you can use all the special moves on the spot! After defeating two components, your character's Rank advances and the fighter enters a training session in which you have three chances to learn a particular moves sequence. Imitating this, you can have access to that special move in your upcoming fights. The game supports one-on-one (two player) mode with different characters and varying difficulty levels (there are many to choose from). This game is a really nice addition to the world of fighting games.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The game has pretty nice visuals. There are plenty of stages (as many as the 10 available characters) with colorful and (mostly) animated scenes. The sprites' animation is really amusing (I laughed a lot with the lion character) and it's the game's strongest point. The Amiga version sports 32 colors on-screen and thus the overall visuals look great! Comparably, the Amiga version's visuals are not better than the PC MS-DOS version (that runs in 256 colors on-screen). Note that the PC version has more details and more animated backdrops while there are more layers in each stage. I'd expect much more from the Amiga but obviously the developers didn't bother to easily make an Amiga game running in EHB or HAM mode. Of note also is the fact that the Amiga CD32 version looks like a direct port from the Amiga OCS/ECS (although its superior AGA chipset that supports 256 colors). The game's sound is great though, having a variety of in-game high quality tunes and sampled sound FX.