Fur Fighters

Fur Fighters, a Cult Classic of a videogame developed for the Dreamcast in 2000 and then later ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2001. We say cult classic because only a very small number of people bought the game despite it receiving very good reviews and being very funny. Think Conker's Bad Fur Day, and you'll understand the general vibe of the game, but with less "adult" humor.

The game saw the player take control over 6 characters, five of whom have retired from a special military squad and one who is the child of a member, as they attempt to save the kidnapped babies from the Big Bad General Viggo. As if kidnapping the hundreds of babies wasn't bad enough, Viggo also kidnapped their spouses and have transformed them into mutant monstrosities and is using them to conquer the world in true super-villain fashion.

The game is a third-person-shooter but it is also a massive platformer, each character having their own abilities which enables the player to explore the massive worlds and save their lost babies in.

Not to be confused with Foo Fighters.

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Tropes used in Fur Fighters include:

• Affectionate Parody: The last level is basically one big homage to James Bond.
• Animal Stereotypes: The main characters themselves (really noticeable in the PlayStation 2 port) and General Viggo.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Viggo's Chameleon Bots can only be attacked by shooting them in the eyes.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Viggo doesn't serve as the game's final encounter for nothing.
• Badass: Every single character in this game.
• Bait and Switch Boss: In the Space Station Meer you bump into a large Alien, only for it to be removed by a lawyer fox from 31st Century Fox who insists it is breaking copyright. He then serves as the true boss.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animals: Most of the animal characters don't wear shoes.
• Big Damn Heroes: The arrival of every single Fur Fighter, partner and baby at the end to save Roofus.
• Bloodless Carnage: Instead, fluff serves as the "blood" of the game, which begs the question of whether or not the animals are real.
• Body Armor as Hit Points
• Butt Monkey: Viggo's Peacock Sergeants. Also Bungalow.
• Canis Major: Rufus's wife, Winnie, is mutated into a freaky giant dog-like monster in Anatat Tatanatat.
• Cats Are Mean: General Viggo, the main antagonist. Averted with Juliette and Claude.
• Check Point: The teleporters located throughout the game serve as this.
• Disappeared Dad: Tweek's father is never seen, nor is he ever mentioned.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: The Grim Beaver is actually quite personable.
• Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): Bungalow and Esmeralda's relationship to a T.
• Dumb Muscle: Bungalow the Kangaroo isn't the smartest of the bunch, but as Viggo says in the intro, he is also, "an athletic and ferocious fighter."
• Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The hidden underground dinosaur civilization, Dinotopolis.
• Kangaroos Represent Australia: Bungalow, his wife Esmerelda, and thier children all have Australian accents.
• Everything's Better with Penguins: Rico is a pretty funny fellow.
• Everything's Worse with Bears: They are the Mooks of the game, after all. Robinson Bear is the single exception.
• Every Bullet Is a Tracer
• Evil Brit: General Viggo.
• Faux Affably Evil: General Viggo balances the line between this and Affably Evil.
• Follow the Money: The golden Tokens, which a) provide much-needed health, b) unlock later levels and c) are often placed to indicate which way you should head next (a much-needed feature, given the size of the levels).
• Funny Foreigner: All of the animals hail from different parts of the world, but naturally they come with their own sense of humor.
• Game Breaking Bug: When trying to enter The Bad Place for the second time in the Dreamcast version, the game would allow you to walk anywhere just fine in Hell but as soon as you try to enter the nightmare door, the game would take control of your character and slowly move him/her to the right until they fell off and died.
• Heroic Dog: Our main hero of the game, Roofus.
• Insert Grenade Here
• Island Base: Viggo's headquarters, which is just off the coast of Furfighter's village!
• Mega Corp: Viggo Industries advertisements and products are found everywhere throughout the game.
• Mooks: Most of Viggo's lackeys consist of bears.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivered to Roofus at the end.
• Our Dragons Are Different: In fact, they have a human-like society.
• Old Soldier: Roofus. By extension, the other Fur Fighters are also this. More noticeably, General Bristol.
• Respawning Enemies: Sometimes, if you revist a certain area in a level later on, the bears, alligators, peacocks, and/or other enemies will unexplainably be alive again.
• Right-Hand-Cat: Actually, it's the cat who has a rather creepy Right Hand Human named Fifi.
• Solve the Soup Cans: Oh-so very many of them...
• Speaking Simlish: The characters did this in the original Dreamcast version. This is averted in the PlayStation 2 port.
• Spinning Paper: Done in the opening of Beaver Power.
• Spirit Advisor: General Bristol.
• Updated Rerelease: The PlayStation 2 port gives the characters actual voices, gives the graphics a cel-shaded style, and changes up the music (maybe) and some of the lines.
• Villain Opening Scene: The game starts with Viggo narrating the Fur Fighter Village and each of the Fur Fighters.
• We Cannot Go on Without You: Partly justified, as noted in a later scene that the teleporter can only handle one person out without causing damage. Doesn't really justify why they don't go in groups, other than for quick escapes...
• Wicked Cultured
• You No Take Candle: The bears speak this way.