Killing Zone is a fighting

Fighting game

Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...

 video game designed by Naxat Soft and published by Acclaim

Acclaim Entertainment

Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo...

. It was released in March 1996 in Japan

Japan

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, July 1996 in North America

North America

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, and September 1996 in Europe

Europe

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 and Oceania

Oceania

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, for the Sony Playstation platform. The game is viewed as one of the worst fighting games for Playstation. It received poor critical reception and very low ratings by gamers due to its horrible controls and graphical glitches.

Gameplay

In this sequel to Sega Saturn's Battle Monsters

Battle Monsters

is a Versus fighting game game originally developed and published by Naxat Soft in Japan for the Sega Saturn, and later published in North America and Europe by Acclaim Entertainment.-Gameplay:...

, there are a total of 14 characters in the game, and two modes: Normal Mode which is a standard fighting game mode, and Auto Mode. In Automode the player selects a type of monster, making their own version of one of the seven playable characters. Automode comprises three tournaments, during which the player can upgrade their monster by winning battles. In fact, unlike the 2D digitized actors and platforms of its predecessor, the gameplay is more like Virtua Fighter in terms of 3D characters, move sets and ring outs.

Fighters

The game features 14 fighters, 7 unique playable characters and 7 visually different but identically playing versions chosen by player 2 or the CPU.
An unplayable boss character awaits at the end of the game.

• Werewolf

Gush (P1) / Toma (P2)

• Dark Faerie

Sherry (P1) / Felir (P2)

• Minotaur

Batch (P1) / Tairos (P2)

• Giant (Frankenstein's Monster)

Drake (P1) / Vilken (P2)

• Mummy

Rem (P1) / Majete (P2)

• Gorgon

Rerner (P1) / Karla (P2)

• Skeleton Warrior

Kal (P1) / Hal (P2)

Critical reception

Killing Zone was deemed "Terrible" by IGN

IGN

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, who awarded it only 2 out of 10. Criticisms included poor animation, camera control and enemy AI.