You meet Beth and have to battle his ex-boyfriend who may or may not have somehow got Beth pregnant. Your task: to gather a crew of construction workers by, you guessed it, smashing steamrollers and bulldozers into them and bring down the monopolizing Shurabe Corporation and its pointy headed boss Ume. Not until ‘Gramps’ smashes a crane into you at least. Your father has passed, but you don’t want to run the family’s failing construction business. You’re Hayato Kongo “I like a quiet, loving, long-haired, well-proportioned woman more than three meals a day”. Let’s look a little deeper into this story as it is clearly the star of the show. One special attack of note is a herd of women being summoned to mow you down on their way to a shop sale. This anime craziness also makes an appearance during battles with each character having a bombastic special attack, although how to trigger them is anybody’s guess. The abysmal English dub just makes them all the more enthralling.
The cutscenes are bizarre and amazing in equal measure, which makes slogging through the ‘smash into each other until one of you breaks’ gameplay tolerable.
The irreverence in this writing deserves serious praise. What wouldn’t you expect from a fighting game involving construction vehicles? A kick-ass over the top story of revenge, corporate espionage, possible incest & male pregnancy and dogs driving told through awesome anime cut scenes. When you do successfully input an attack, the hit detection is all over the place. There is a guard button and the other three face buttons correspond to front, right and left facing attacks, but I’ll be damned if I could ever get them to respond correctly to my inputs. What would you expect from a fighting game involving construction vehicles? The digital equivalent of a child smashing toy trucks together. It delivered everything I was looking for and more. I remember buying this new for less than most second-hand games based solely on how ridiculous the premise looked. BCV was released in 2000 in Japan, took 3 years to reach Europe and never quite made it over to North America.
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