The fighting game franchise doesn't really demand a film adaptation, but despite that we now have two.
Not exact matches
For those who've never experienced the
franchise before but love their
fighting games, this nostalgic trip is well worth the money to see how one of the greats
did it earlier.
The already released Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is poised to answer this question as the first
game in the series not to bear the Scarlett «M.» As you watch these weakened and watered down fatalities,
do you think MK vs. DC will rejuvenate the
fighting franchise or perform a triple rib cage exploding brutality?
People thinking the
game «flopped» because it didn't
do Splatoon numbers need to consider the fact that
fighting games are nowhere near as popular as they used to be and only established
franchises break the 3 Million mark.
What better way to
do that then by attracting new fans to the
franchise by showing off what made Super Smash Bros. melee one of the most popular
fighting games on the Gamecube?
Novarama have
done a good job with augmented reality but, for a fully priced
game, have failed to create a compelling
fighting game that can even to hope to compete with the multitude of finely tuned and incredibly polished
fighting franchises out there, many of which are coming to the Vita.
Though
fighting games have arcade modes that help to tell various stories of their characters, only Mortal Kombat has really had any sort of a real story beyond having one big villain that no one apparently
did anything about, and in addition to its background mythology has had story modes in various
games from the
franchise.
Many doubted NetherRealm's ability to make the ageing series relevant again but not only
did NR succeed in delivering a great MK
game, they delivered one of the best Mortal Kombat
games ever made, innovating with a story mode that put all other
fighting games to shame and for the first time ever for the
franchise, made MK a worthy competitive title that would have a presence at professional tournaments.
And though I could never hope to compete with the
fighting game community back in my hometown in Street Fighter III, I still had a deep appreciation for everything it
did (or tried to
do) in pushing the
franchise forward.
The King Of Fighters, most people don't know, is actually a cross-over
fighting game made up of two SNK fighting franchises, Art of Fightin
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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.
Well, I have come back to give my two cents and show a few examples of
franchises that I think, if
done well, would become stand alone classics that could help define SSB as its own genre within the
fighting realm of video
games.
We review Mortal Kombat X.
Does the
game live up to the hype and the name of the seminal
fighting franchise?
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.
However, if you're a casual
fighting game or indeed Tekken
franchise fan, the limited life span of this title probably doesn't warrant its current Xbox Store asking price of # 49.99 because as a
fighting game (which is what it is at the end of the day) it's excellent, but as a AAA title with a long life span?
It's a shame the
game received what would become a mediocre sequel later on [and possibly what killed the
franchise's chances for continuation], as this original served as a good example of a
fighting game done right and kept relatively simple with room to develop your style further.
It may not be the dream come true we may have wanted from a Pokemon
fighting game, but Pokken Tournament
does serve as a fun and engaging
game that hints at what the greater Pokemon
franchise is capable of.
But after more than a year since its announcement,
did Capcom successfully evolve its
fighting game franchise?