- One Must Fall: Battlegrounds
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One Must Fall: Battlegrounds 
Developer(s) Diversions Entertainment Publisher(s) Diversions Publishing
Trisynergy Inc.
GMX Media
ManaccomPlatform(s) Microsoft Windows Release date(s) Genre(s) Fighting Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer (max 16 simultaneously) Rating(s) - ESRB: T
Media/distribution CD System requirements Required: 500MHz CPU, 128MB of RAM, 3D Accelerator Card w/ 16MB RAM, DirectX 9 Recommended: 800MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM,3D Accelerator Card w/ 32MB RAM, 3D audio-Capable Soundcard
One Must Fall: Battlegrounds is a fighting game for Microsoft Windows. Developed by Diversions Entertainment and co-published in December 2003 by Diversions Publishing and Trisynergy Inc. following nearly 7 years of development, One Must Fall: Battlegrounds brought the One Must Fall series into a second installment released in an age where the gaming world expected graphics and gameplay in three dimensions with internet gameplay an integral portion of the offering.
Background
Battlegrounds started development as a sequel to the popular shareware title One Must Fall: 2097, playing in a side scrolling manner with two opponents facing each other. At the time, Rob Elam saw the opportunity in the Unreal Engine then in development by 2097 publisher Epic MegaGames. At the time, Epic was not yet at a point where they were willing to examine licensing the engine or developing the Unreal Engine for third party use and so a joint decision was reached whereby Rob Elam left to develop a new game engine.
Reception
The game was rated 7.1 by Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot, but reviewer noted the game lacks polish from start to finish, with much higher system requirements than advertise to achieve decent frame rate, and even then slow down is noticeable when increasing resolution. Audio effects were labeled generic, while music sounded like they were ripped out of the Amiga demo scene.[1]
1UP staff rated the game D+ for lacking real story in story mode, overdone music, average graphics, small range of moves, button-mashing style fighting, great speed penalty for multiplayer.[2]
IGN staff Dan Adams rated the game 6.7 for low quality animation, mediocre sound effects, problematic game play, large variety of game modes, and lack of online players.[3]
References
Categories: 2003 video games | Versus fighting games | Windows games
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