Fighting Force 2 is the sequel to Fighting Force, which was released for the PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast in 1999 with the only playable character being Hawk Mason. It didn't perform too well due to the gameplay being retooled to be closer to Core Design's own Tomb Raider, thus making the end of the series.
The game takes place many years after the first game, where Hawk is called in to conduct a covert investigation by the State Intelligence Police (SI-COPS) on the activities of Knackmiche Corporation. The company has been suspected of conducting illegal human cloning projects despite an international treaty that bans it.
Another sequel, known as Fighting Force 3, was in development for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube, but got cancelled.
Fighting Force 2 provides examples of:
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The sequel ditched the other three main characters with no explanation.
- Excuse Plot: The game has Hawk Manson being refitted with cybernetics as the members of a "SI Cops" (yet he seems to be the only active field member) taking on against the worldwide branches of a MegaCorp known as Nakamichi (yet spelled in the briefings as "Knackamiche" supposedly as an insult), fighting abominations, both mechanical and biological along the way, culminating with a fight against Knackamiche's ultimate life form experiment.
- Evil, Inc.: The Nakamiche Corporation has been expirementing on cloned humans illegally with no regards to the international ban against it.
- Genre Shift: Fighting Force 2 changes the genre into a third-person action-adventure in the vein of Tomb Raider and surprisingly plays like Oni, but slower paced.
- In-Series Nickname: Nackamiche is also called "Knackmiche" by the briefings seemingly to insult the company.
- Multinational Team: The story background mention that the State Intelligence Police is made up of experienced officers and agents from the FBI, CIA and officers seconded to Interpol.
- Plausible Deniability: SI-COPS indicated that Hawk's cover would be of being in an Eco-Terrorist group as he investigates the activities of Nakamichi.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Nakamichi is a reputable biotech company, but it's long been suspected of conducting illegal experiments in secret.