Sky is high… price is low… way of the tight fist
Fat Conan, being the skinflint barbarian he is, went on a shopping spree for sub £10 X-Box games at Virgin to see what “bargains” he could get his mighty, calloused mits around. Rather pleased with himself, he managed to pick up “Metal Gear Solid 2″, “Project Gotham Racing 2″, “The Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus” and an offering from Capcom entitled “Capcom Fighting Jam” which promised to combine all the best bits from its catalogue of 2-d beat ‘em ups into a single phantasmagorical package.
As soon as he arrived back at his “pad” he hurriedly connected an arcade stick, stuck in the CFJ disc, started the VCR-sized cosole up and reclined on his stone throne to enjoy the proceedings. However, he soon realised his initial bargain-induced smugness and joy may have been misplaced. As it so happens, taking an enormous blender and blitzing together some of your favourite things (e.g. Roast dinners, chocolate ice-cream, Jennifer Garner and duckies) doesn’t always result in the best tasting smoothie (and also, in that case, a miserable Ben Affleck). So it is with Capcom Fighting Jam, the combination of some of Capcom’s best work: the fighting system from Third Stike; the hugely cheap Ryu from Street Fighter 2 and the shitty sprites from Darkstalkers; is something far less than the sum of its parts.
Still for £9.99 it does offer the opportunity to watch Yun parry a great big fucking dinosaur, and that’s got to be worth something…
…the remaining £9.97 though, is never coming back.