Fighter Within

Xbox exclusive

Fighter Within makes full use of Kinect for Xbox One technology, providing players the excitement of a real fighting competition while battling their friends to earn their bragging rights.

Released: 22 November 2013
Platforms: Xbox One
Genres: Fighting Sports
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action
Country: Belgium
Age ratings: ACB M GRAC 15+ESRB T PEGI 16
Composers: Winifred Phillips

About

Fighter Within is a Kinect-based fighting game developed by Belgian studio Daoka and published by Ubisoft. It was released on November 22, 2013 as an exclusive launch title for the Xbox One and a sequel to Fighters Uncaged (2010).

Fighter Within is panned by critics, with many considering it to be one of the worst video games of all time. X-One Magazine referred to it as one of the worst games in general.

Keywords

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gamescom 2013
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Reception

Fighter Within received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. It became notable for its negative reception. The Kinect controls were criticized, with several reviews suggesting problems were just as prevalent as the Kinect for Xbox 360. Game Informer said, "Fighter Within is garbage."

GameZone's Mike Splechta said, "Fighter Within really showcases the larger problem with Kinect only games: they just don't work." IGN said that the game was only able to adequately detect basic punches, describing the game as a "disjointed", "haphazard mess" due to its unpredictable motion detection, and considered its storyline to be "laughably bad" and a "flimsy excuse" to "fight [against] a long stream of AI opponents who look just as dumb as they fight." GameSpot described its gameplay as requiring players to "stand like a lemon in front of the TV for what seems like an eternity as you feel your life ebb away during the excruciatingly long loading times; punch at thin air as fast as humanly possible until you trigger a combo; watch the lifeless combo animation; repeat these steps until your opponent is defeated."