Thunder Fox for Genesis

Review #4605

Thunder Fox

The most boring run n gun ever

Genesis 1991 Taito Action Action › Gun
Thunder Fox screenshot for Genesis
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
2 / 5

Gameplay

Slow movement.
Enemies like to stop just outside your melee attack range and knife you from there so you have to skooch in a little closer but invariably take damage in the attempt. Once you pick up a gun this is no longer an issue but since there's limited ammo you sometimes revert back to melee only.
You can only shoot straight - no diagonal or up/down. This severely limits the gameplay options.
Contra this is not.

1 / 5

Level Design

Soooooo boring! Just walk to the right and punch or shoot the bad guys who appear one by one. Occassionally an enemy appears on the left but that's about as much variety this game offers. What a snooze.

2 / 5

Theme

Terrorists are everywhere. Kill them using one of two shirtless goons who wear blue or red pants.
Besides the generic Rambo-like setting, the level intros are minimal as is everything else about the presentation.

2 / 5

Art Style

Looks like a mid-80s arcade game.
Some parallax scrolling in the backgrounds.
Decent explosions and effects but very poor animation.

2 / 5

Audio

Really dorky music. Not the thumping soundtrack you'd expect from a run n gun. It sounds like elevator music.

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