A colorful, chatty 3D platformer packed with wacky animal characters. Controls feel rough, but the humor delights and multiplayer spices the adventure. A nice surprise.
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Category
Action Adventure4 players7+
Split screen
Description
Super-armed stuffed animals battle enemy forces around the world in this Acclaim Dreamcast action game. Published by Acclaim, released in Europe in July 2000. Third-person action with armed toy animals, varied missions in global environments, off-beat humour. European version.
European edition of Fur Fighters, an action game led by heavily armed plush toys, made by Bizarre Creations before the studio shone with Project Gotham and Geometry Wars. That prestigious authorship, still quiet at the time, now feeds its standing among the studio's fans. On Dreamcast, the PAL version stays sought as a marker of the early days of a developer who became cult.
An underrated gem
Behind its colourful plush toys hides a surprisingly ambitious third-person shooter, blending platforming, hub exploration and gunfights laced with dark humour. A wayward camera and a release drowned out by the competition pushed it into the background. In multiplayer, its zany versus mode remains a treat that was forgotten too soon.
Is Fur Fighters still worth playing in 2026?
Fur Fighters from Acclaim is a third-person action-adventure in which heavily armed plush animals cross vast environments to rescue their families. Its open level design, offbeat humor and split-screen multiplayer made it an original proposition. The handling and camera betray their age, but the inventiveness of the levels and the endearing tone still hold up. A tasty discovery for fans of action-platformers from the Dreamcast generation.
