Capcom is on the back - foot at the moment with their second-most popular
fighting game franchise after the divisive reception
Not exact matches
They entered their first All Sports Series
Game in
Franchise history on Tuesday Night and while they left without a much sought
after W, they certainly showed a lot of talent and
fight in their debut.
After nearly a decade, the popular
fighting franchise returns to Xbox One with the «Killer Instinct» characters and combos that revolutionized
fighting games.
Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice,
franchise - based
fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple
fighting game with some button mashing, however, the
game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto
games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the
fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the
game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score
after the battle), the
game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later
game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the
game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.
During the summer, Bandai Namco announced Dragon Ball FighterZ, a 2.5 D
fighting game modeled
after the early installments of the Marvel vs. Capcom
franchise.
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After the completion of Project Soul's Soul Calibur 4, it seemed like the book was closed on this historic weapons - based
fighting game franchise.
When PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale was announced, people were quick to dismiss it as just another Smash Bros. clone;
after all, it does feature many of PlayStation's most notable
franchise figureheads battling it out in an arena - style
fighting game.
But what I don't get is
after years and years of the three
games in this series being best sellers, why in the world have we not seen any other
fighting game franchises learn from its example and make their
games more like this one.
After flushing your business, you head outside to South Park to see a war raging on in the streets as kids
fight for control of the Stick of Truth from the previous
game, but just as we get close The Coon jumps into the fray to warn all the kids of a danger ahead, a missing cat, whose capture could reward the heroes $ 100 to fund their superhero
franchise.
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.
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But
after more than a year since its announcement, did Capcom successfully evolve its
fighting game franchise?
After appearing in a few home console conversions and attempts at sequels, the Strider
franchise faded away, but Hiryu himself bounced around the Capcom universe to appear in various
fighting games like Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
After making the leap to both Xbox and PC,
fighting game franchise Tekken is branching out to the mobile space.
Bandai Namco is now accepting pre-registrations for its upcoming Tekken
game set to hit Android smartphones and tablets later this year, with the move coming only a month
after the cult video
game fighting franchise celebrated its 23rd anniversary.