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Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge (Playstation 2)

An elite fighting force of five stuffed animals from Fur Fighter Village are sent on a mission to rescue their homeland from the evil General Viggo (and they do it with shotguns, machine guns, rockets and other non-stuffed weopons).

Acclaim
Action
Players: 4
T (Teen)
Developer: Bizarre Creations
Released June 5, 2001

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

64 / 100

Critic Reviews

88 GameSpy
You also don't feel particularly bloodthirsty when you've got this bouncy music playing in the background. The music just isn't that good in general. It's dull and repetitive...Aside from some gripes here and there, FF:VR is a well done adventure game.
80 Total Video Games
The characters and objects have that distinctive cartoon look which is superb.
80 GameZone
Provides enough of a rush to deal with the fact that the game tends to get a little monotonous.
75 Electric Playground
If you can make it past the cuddliness, there is some good napalm throwing fun to be had.
73 GameSpot
While games like "Red Faction" offer a more polished and engaging experience, Fur Fighters holds its own with a quirky, refreshing style.
71 TotalGames.net
Though plagued by a number of problems, not least the average nature of the gameplay, Fur Fighters on PS2 does attempt to invest some new life into the game and does better last year''s Dreamcast original. If you want to play last year’s games today, then you can do no better than Fur Fighters.
70 Happy Puppy
The graphics, however, are the game's strongest suit. Viggo's Revenge sports the same cartoony characters and environments as the DC version, but they have been a tad improved thanks to cell shading technology.
70 GamePen
The frustrating part is it’s out and out lack of a configurable control set up, a feature that would have been so easy to implement, and would have improved this game ten fold.
69 Gamezilla!
Starts out with a bang, but then quickly falls to a whimper -- that whimper being the controls. Never in all my life would I have thought it possible to make a game that is so impossible to control with any degree of efficiency.
60 Hot Games
Still has its brand of goofy appeal; there’s nothing quite like the sight of stuffed animals pumping each other full of lead...Hardcore FPS fans and platform purists should stay away.
60 Electronic Gaming Monthly
There’s nothing I hate more than lukewarm games, except maybe lukewarm spin-offs of lukewarm games. [Aug 2001, p.111]
50 Game Revolution
Has its share of problems. It is entertaining for a brief spell, though. I mean, who can resist cute, cuddly stuffed animals blowing the tops off their evil counterparts?
50 PSX Nation
It's dissapointing that the characters weren't more varied in capabilities.
45 IGN
While Viggo's Revenge is cute in its cartoonish, cell-shaded way, it's crippled by moderate to terrible problems with its camera and control.
40 GamerWeb Sony
Not many people will be entertained enough to see the game through to the end, mainly because the bad control will cause you to snap your controller in two.

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