And this is where the first difference compares to Street Fighter and other fighting games comes in. This is the year the single player mode plot takes place in. One Must Fall was supposed to become a Street Fighter clone for the PC, but then the developers decided to set the game into the future instead and add 2097. Originally distributed as shareware, OMF has been released as freeware in the meantime. Whether you prefer this over the more common alternative is up to you. In that way, it is a type of fighting game which could only exist on a computer ecosystem. It emphasizes somewhat careful development strategy over pure reaction gameplay. Overall, OMF may not be the flashiest fighting game of its time, but it may nevertheless be one of the best. And in two-player mode, there is even a handicap setting to enable fair competition between differently skilled players. Post-fight media coverage and interactions with the grumpy mechanic provide some welcome flavour as well. The extremely catchy title tune is sure to grab everyone's attention immediately. External hazards in the arenas – like emerging spikes or attacking fighter planes – spice things up randomly, but fairly.
Gameplay is fluid and speed can be configured. The dual button controls work very well, even using a keyboard. These balancing acts provide some welcome global context to the regular fighting. Which, then, comes at the cost of having to retrain some new abilities again (both virtually in-game and extrinsically on player level).Ĭompeting in various tournaments in career mode, you not only have to win the encounters, but also try and keep your own robot intact as far as possible, as prize money needs to be first used for repairs before the rest can be invested in upgrades. Both the characters themselves and the robot avatars have distinct abilities which can be trained and developed it is even possible to buy a completely new robot if budget allows. The fighters don't actually brawl directly, but use robots to battle their differences out. The first specialty is that it separates character and equipment. Namely, it puts a lot of focus on character development over the course of the game.
Published by Epic Megagames, one of the “big 2” of the shareware market, One Must Fall gives a spin to the one-on-one fighting genre which had been tried a couple of times before, but got buried under the typical special move extravaganzas of the early 1990s.
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