{"id":54934,"date":"2013-06-07T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54934"},"modified":"2013-06-07T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:22:14","slug":"5-wtf-fighting-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54934-5-wtf-fighting-games-2","title":{"rendered":"5 WTF fighting games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Injustice: Gods Among Us still smashing through walls and Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition finally hitting PC, MyGaming decided to look at some of the most bizarre fighting games that history forgot.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Sonic The Fighters<\/h3>\n<p>While Sonic may have leaped into just about every other genre out there, fighting is probably not an expected category; but everyone\u2019s favourite little anthropomorphic hedgehog did.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the team behind Virtua Fighter, Sonic The Fighters came out in the late \u201890s and took all of the franchise&#8217;s favourite characters and threw them into an arcade death battle.<\/p>\n<p>The game is strange, unorthodox and doesn\u2019t really fit into the Sonic the Hedgehog mould, but there\u2019s something charming about beating the hell out of Knuckles with Tails.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3qRbu7UF2g\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Battle Raper 2<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s probably a reason why Battle Raper 2 was forgotten about, and odds are its the name.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, its not a typo \u2013 the game really is called Battle Raper 2 and was developed by Illusion and required player to knock their opponents\u2019 clothing off.<\/p>\n<p>The first Battle Raper actually featured rape, where the sequel didn\u2019t, and instead gave players the opportunity to have consensual sex with any female characters they finish the story with.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uS2CwFXVYZw\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Shaq Fu<\/h3>\n<p>Why Shaquille O\u2019Neal got roped into video games is a mystery; well, it was probably to make money for both himself and the developer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A basketball game would have made sense &#8211; instead, Shaq starred in Shaq Fu, a fighting game that required players to beat up generic enemies in order to save a boy from an evil mummy.<\/p>\n<p>The game immediately went down as one of the worst games ever made, and was practically erased from gamers\u2019 memories, but it still lurks, somewhere at the back of a dusty rental shop or in the depths of the internet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TzIPUX4JYLw\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles<\/h3>\n<p>If you love games that make you feel like you\u2019re trying to reverse a truck, then you\u2019ll adore Battle Construction Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The PS2 game allowed players to pick from a number of oversized and poorly-manoeuvrable construction vehicles and smash one another to bits.<\/p>\n<p>Each vehicle had a special move, although you\u2019ll probably not play enough to even get to the point of using one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFBu_YRNL60\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport<\/h3>\n<p>Aliens going head-to-head is always a winner, but Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport had a secret weapon: Barney the Dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>This is no joke, as the nightmare-inducing purple dinosaur was an actual playable character in the game, murdering his enemies with love\u2026 just like he does in real life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UZuCJgAOKKQ\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you come across any ridiculous fighting games? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming features:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54477-5-crazy-games-that-shouldnt-exist.html\"><b>5 crazy games that shouldn\u2019t exist<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/53929-5-ridiculous-things-learnt-from-driving-games.html\"><b>5 ridiculous things learnt from driving games<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/53570-5-things-we-cant-wait-to-do-in-gta-v.html\">5 cool things you can do in GTA V<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which fighting games take the cake for being the strangest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":54935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[10221,10219,10217,1966,21,10220,10222,10218],"class_list":["post-54934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-battle-raper-2","tag-buchigire-kongou-battle-construction-vehicles","tag-fighting-games","tag-games","tag-headline","tag-shaq-fu","tag-sonic-the-fighters","tag-star-wars-masters-of-teras-kasi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54949,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54934\/revisions\/54949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}