![]() ![]() One has only to look at Marco to see that this title is hardly "balanced" for any sort of tournament play. There are times when, yes, in fact, fan service can, nay must drive a game, and this is one of them, because it's hard to see its worth in other categories. Cyber Woo from King of the Monsters 2? Mudman and Fuuma from World Heroes? Heck, some of the games represented weren't even good - is there a reason Kisarah from Aggressors of Dark Kombat made a slot?īut I digress. Some of the characters make sense from an audience standpoint, like Marco from Metal Slug, along with a bunch of King of Fighters and a couple of Samurai Shodown representatives, but then it just gets crazy. Some may call dusting off and updating old franchises "pandering to nostalgia" - I prefer to call it "celebrating what's proven to be quality." Of course, when you do this, you easily run the risk of alienating yourself to all but a niche audience-the ones that have followed your franchises for years. Personally, I'm a big fan of this approach. ![]() SNK, bless them, went the opposite route and actually dug into their back catalogs, creating all-new sprite sets for characters they owned that no one ever thought they'd see again, and let them rumble to your heart's content. Capcom released Capcom Fighting Evolution, a positively lazy MUGEN-esque cut-and-paste affair. Capcom crossover license having run its course, both SNK and Capcom, a couple of years ago, created giant crossover dream match fighting games based on their home franchises. ![]() I'll be talking about that game in due time, but the philosophies behind that game and the one featured here are strikingly similar. See, Sega Superstars Tennis just got released for almost all major platforms, and I've been playing ungodly amounts of it. My writing of this review comes at an interesting time, however. This game isn't for newcomers to the genre, especially given some characters' command lists, and options once some special moves are activated. You've got special moves, super combos, complicated command lists and button combinations galore. Thus they, and you, likely already know what to expect here. Anyone who owns a PlayStation 2 has invariably played a handful of these already, if not more. Neo Geo Battle Coliseum is a 2-D sprite-based arcade fighting game ripped straight out of the turn of the century. This game is so entrenched in video game history that it's not even funny. I'm not even entirely sure what I can write about this title that would qualify as actual news. ![]()
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