• Publisher: VU Games
  • Release Date: Nov 16, 2004
Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 28
  2. Negative: 23 out of 28
  1. It's just a shame that it's got quite possibly the worst gameplay I've seen in a fighting game I think ever. When I can't play a game for more than 5-6 minutes at a time, that is NOT a good thing.
  2. The fighting mechanics are highly outdated and just don't reach to the heights of something like "VF4."
  3. 45
    If you skip all of the marring of the movie and the book with the game's awful presentation, story, production, and audio -- yes, that's asking a lot -- the fighting isn't half bad.
  4. The point of Fight Club was not just the fighting, it was a lot deeper than that yet the developers seem to have completely missed the point and it shows in this empty and confusing mess of a game.
  5. I ended up not only not caring for the game, but downright hating it. There is no excuse for developers to put out such an inherently flawed piece of crap. None.
  6. With such a poor fighting engine, you're going to get bored very quickly; tapping on one button isn't going to please most fighting fans.
  7. It makes for a boring, bland videogame. [Holiday 2004, p.92]
  8. For playability, this game is ridiculously short.
  9. We've got some new rules for Fight Club. Rule Number One: Do not play Fight Club. Rule Number Two: Tell all of your friends about Fight Club.
  10. 40
    It's hard to figure how they could have got the story, characters, and point more wrong than this. Perhaps by replacing Tyler Durden with, say, Dick Cheney, things would have been worse.
  11. Bad control, mediocre graphics, bad voice acting, bad sound, boring and extremely flawed gameplay, and worst of all, nearly criminal abuse of an intellectual property, make this one game that is most definitely not worth anybody's fifty dollars.
  12. 40
    The game creators obviously didn’t consult Palahniuk. Maybe he would’ve sat them down, and explained the yet-released ninth rule: Don’t make a crap fighting game and call it Fight Club.
  13. A resounding failure. Unless you're a masochistic Fight Club fan looking to purposely have your sensibilities offended, then you'd be well advised to stay far away from this game.
  14. 30
    For a fighting game to work the action on screen must be in sync with each tap of the controller. In Fight Club, the response is so sluggish pressing the attack buttons feels more like pushing M&M's into a bowl of pudding.
  15. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. [Jan. 05]
  16. The absence of Ed Norton's and Brad Pitt's likenesses makes the generic characters look like a pack of half-naked Ken dolls, excepting the one with man boobs. [Dec 2004, p.108]
  17. Fight Club is to fighting games what Tyler Durden's posturing is to Bruce Lee - a piss-poor impression.
  18. The first rule of Fight Club is - don't buy Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is - DO NOT BUY FIGHT CLUB. Do you need to hear the other six? [GamesMaster]
  19. If you want a taste of the gritty underground fight scene depicted in the movie "Fight Club," you'd be better off paying somebody 50 bucks to beat you to a bloody pulp than wasting money on this game. It's unpolished, unfinished, and just plain bad. [Holiday 2004, p.102]
  20. With such a lack of moves comes an obvious lack of depth, and it soon becomes apparent that most of the story mode and the arcade mode can be completed with pure button-mashing.
  21. And by God, when I find whoever told Vivendi about Fight Club and convinced them to make a game out of it, I’ll run their scrotum through a cheese grater.
  22. The developers spent far too much time making sure Fight Club looked good in screenshots rather than making sure it would look good during play.
  23. Sure, it's pretty generic underneath it all, but the layering of sheer badness elevates it to a certain legendary state. Give it a rent, and let the hilarity begin at the fact everything comes off as either a really clever parody of licensed games-or one of the worst things you've ever had to play.
User Score

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 9 out of 13
  1. Awful. Missed the point of the book and movie by a **** mile and is a terrible cash-in with awful game mechanics and... just pleas don't buy this game. Go read the superior book and then watch the amazing movie and forget this ever existed. Full Review »
  2. AminF.
    8
    Although this game only has a couple of basic combos, I enjoy the game's "grapple-n'-smash moves and the use of the environment in a fight is entertaining. Full Review »
  3. NaomiM.
    0
    I am Jacks upset stomach. Fight Club is the best movie and book of all time. Fight Club is the worst game of all time. The First rule of Fight Club is don't ever play this game. The second rule of Fight Club is don't ever play this game. Tyler Durdin would be ashamed! Full Review »