Them's Fightin' Herds
Them's Fightin' Herds is a PlayStation 5 fighting game developed by Maximum Entertainment. It centers on combat encounters, offense-defense reads, and character matchups, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.2 / 10
About this game
Them's Fightin' Herds is a PlayStation 5 fighting game centered on combat encounters, offense-defense reads, and character matchups. Short bouts use character differences and rising difficulty for variety, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Animation, hit feedback, and readable arenas create match tension, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that button mapping, move recognition, multiplayer accessories, and cpu behavior can affect balance. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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PlayStation 5AI review
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A small roster conceals a deep and characterful fighter.
A clear four-button layout supports fighters with distinct ranges and techniques, while juggle decay limits endless pressure. Genuine depth lies beneath the cheerful art, rewarding knowledge of individual rhythms and unusually horizontal hitboxes. Arcade, practice and released top-down story material provide activities beyond versus matches, with seven distinct base fighters. The small roster limits combinations, and promised characters or future chapters are not credited as delivered content. Expressive quadruped animation and voices give fighters clear personalities and readable actions. Comparatively plain backgrounds reveal where the visual effort is concentrated, but that focus effectively supports the game’s distinct identity in motion. The PS5 test documents an understandable light-medium-heavy-magic layout with practice facilities for examining character differences. Unusual hitboxes still require adjustment, and this offline usability judgment makes no promise about present online matchmaking quality.
Strengths
- Distinct fighters and carefully tuned combat rules.
Weaknesses
- Limited base roster and released story scope.
Who it is for: Fighting players who enjoy cartoons and serious practice.
Play notes: Based on the dated tested build and stated content scope; later patches are not automatically included. This is evidence synthesis, not a claim of personal play or current network quality.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension The small roster limits combinations, and promised characters or future chapters are not credited as delivered content. | Reviewed | 6.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Genuine depth lies beneath the cheerful art, rewarding knowledge of individual rhythms and unusually horizontal hitboxes. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Comparatively plain backgrounds reveal where the visual effort is concentrated, but that focus effectively supports the game’s distinct identity in motion. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Unusual hitboxes still require adjustment, and this offline usability judgment makes no promise about present online matchmaking quality. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Maximum
- Publisher
- Maximum
- Release date
- Oct 18, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Fighting · Primary genre
- Tags
- CombosReal-time CombatSolo-friendlyShort Sessions3D GraphicsPlayer versus PlayerFast-pacedMelee CombatReplayableMain Story Under 10 Hours
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- Side view
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideOct 18, 2022
Game gallery
Sources
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