At any rate, even the games you cited were two of the biggest
3d fighting game franchises still in existence with some of the best graphics in a fighting game at the time of those games» respective releases, and they only did «ok» selling through to consumer at their original price.
But as several fighting game franchises see new installments, you have to wonder what comes next for the seminal
3D fighting game franchise.
Not exact matches
Namco Bandai launching
3DS installment in
fighting game franchise for Valentine's Day;
game to feature more than 40 characters, Tekken: Blood Vengeance
3D movie.
Nguyen explained that these
games were chosen because they represent
franchises that revolutionized the three main
fighting game genres: 2D,
3D, and «anime.»
The aforementioned Persona 4: Arena was obviously an adaption of the highly popular RPG
franchise, but they also made a fondly remembered (yet also hilariously broken) Fist of the North Star / Hokuto no Ken
fighting game back in 2005, as well as recent endeavors on the
3DS with both Dragon Ball and One Piece, including crossplay capability between the two.
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. today announced MY HERO ONE»S JUSTICE, a new
3D arena - based
fighting game based on the popular manga and anime
franchise from Weekly Shonen Jump.
MK 4 - 8 really tried too hard to make the MK
franchise into a
3D fighting series and really lost the feeling of what the original
games established.
Oddly enough, the year after this
game would see cancelation, another iconic
fighting series would give its
franchise a similar makeover in
3D: SNK Playmore's King of Fighters: Maximum Impact.
Bandai Namco is also not a stranger to developing
games for Nintendo's major
franchises, as it was the studio behind the Super Smash Bros. titles for the
3DS and Wii U and the Pokémon
fighting game Pokkén Tournament for the Wii U and Nintendo Switch.
For those that have somehow never played either
franchise, they are
3D fighting games in the vein of the Street Fighter series, just with polygons instead of pixels and full directional movement.
Nintendo's iconic Mario
franchise is a testament to just how much
games have evolved over the past 4 decades and their potential to adapt to just about any genre imaginable; the plumber stars in just about everything, including side - scrolling platformers, turn - based RPGs,
3D adventures, sports competitions,
fighting games, and even a handful of learning and child - development titles.