One Must Fall: Battlegrounds (2003)
Genres:Fighting
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Players control various robots from a 3rd person perspective as they maneuver around trap-filled hazardous environments.
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I could talk about how much I love this game, and how special it is to me, for pages. I actually met the developers in Las Vegas's Cyber X Games in 2003 and learned a lot about its development and the Diversions relationship with Epic.
This game came out just a few months before Steam and before digital distribution and easy patching became widespread. With a little compatibility-love, I know this game could reach the audience that it deserves! And a second chance to release the mod tools that were promised, once upon a time. That promise motivated and inspired me to learn 3D modeling. Through this game, I discovered a new passion for polygons and 3D artistic expression.
I remember all the fun times with this game. It was a ahead of its time like other said. I remember they ran an art contest and I won a signed copy (which I still have to this day) of the game :)
Despite having its issues, it was slightly ahead of its time with massive 3d battles. I remember some of the hardest matches have you play against practical horde of enemies.
It's also a bit of a pain to make work on modern systems so having it on GoG with easy install would be fantastic.
This game was so awesome but like other reviewers have said it was just a little ahead of its time. It requires a fairly beefy graphics cards when it first came out, severely limiting the target audience. Additionally, patching it became difficult after the game had been released for some time. With a little love this would be one heck of a re-release. I loved OMF 2097 and I spent so much time following the development of this game on the official message board back in the relative early days of the internet. Of course I bought the game ASAP when it was released and it didn't disappoint! The game had so many cool things going for it! GOG adding this game would complete me.
Being ahead of one's time is a damned thing. And damning, too. Just ask the Betamax system. But even now, with technology having advanced in leaps and bounds, I still haven't found what I'm looking for: A worthy replacement for this game. My Warlord, plucking that pesky Gargoyle from Midair and hammering it into the ground. Or ploughing through multiple enemies in a mace rush. Or shoving some Jaguar into the arena's electrified fence .... Ah, the memories! OMF BG got the mixture just right: Plenty of moves (a lot of them truly unique for one bot), an open combo system, RPG elements, arenas with room to spare (and hazard to go spare, sometimes), and more. Having it back, on modern gear that easily meets it's requirements, would be a dream come true!
The simple answer? I never got a chance to truly play this game as much as I wanted. Despite the flak it gets (mostly for fair reasons in relation to performance on modern systems), I've always liked unique fighting games that play differently from the usual one screen one on one fighting games. This game's style of mixing fighting game combos into free form strings allowing you essentially access to any combo at any time if you know how to pull it of is what made it so interesting to me. That and as I never played the first game (or even knew this was a series that started as a one on one fighter) I simply liked the designs from the start rather than having any specific attachment to the original designs or game. That's to say that as a standalone I still think it's interesting and worth playing, even despite it's flaws. That's why I want it to be made available again someday so that I can actually experience it this time. I only ever had the chance to play the Demo to the game and the game's rarity as well unstable base game that need patching even if you did have a disc means trying to play it myself in the modern day is questionable at best.
This game, like like its predecessor OMF: 2097, brought new innovation to the fighting genre. Although it definitely had it's teething issues, it is an important piece of the fighting genre history that unfortunately was not experienced by as many as it could have due to being a PC fighter, which wasn't nearly as common at the time, as well as having fairly high system requirements at release. It was also the first gaming community I really got into and through it got my first experience as a beta tester for a game along with life long friends through the messageboards.
The difficulty is getting the game running on modern systems is also an important factor for preseravation, as it was one of those titles broken by changes in the jump to Windows Vista due to dropped features, causing issues with keyboard input and graphical issues. As well, it came out a little too early to get released on Steam to take advantage of the improved patching systems avaiable.
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