Fatal Fury 2
Reviewed by Dyson Turner
Fatal Fury 2 is leaps and bounds beyond the original Fatal
Fury. This time you get even more characters way better
graphics, special moves and better over music. This game is
one of my favorite fighters of all time, even better than
the great Samurai Shodown series. I'm glad this went on to
be King of Fighters, well some of the characters did the
popular ones. Upon first inspection I realize some of the
characters didn't return from the original Fatal Fury which
is a huge disappointment. I hate it when games do that the
newer ones aren't half as cool, well some of them are
though. All the old favorites made it back so That's a relief.
Story 7.5/10
One year ago a tournament, which would crown the King of the
Fighters, was held. In this tournament 3 men team together
to destroy the ultimate evil has known as Geese Howard.
These 3 and brave men were Andy Bogard, Terry Bogard, and
Joe Higashi. Together they toppled the mighty Geese Howard,
and Terry Bogard was crowned King of the Fighters.
Everything seemed back to normal and the 3 young men went
their own separate ways. Until one day 12 people got an
invitation for another tournament, this baffled these 3 men
because they thought they killed Geese. It wasn't Geese who
were holding the tournament it was a man known as Van
Kaiser, a predecessor to the powerful Geese Howard. These
men and many of the other contestants will stop at nothing
to see the end of this once and for all. Kaiser is not alone
he has 3 other men who are guarding him. Billy Kane,
Lawrence Blood, and a George Foreman looking boxer dude.
This story pretty much is like any other fighting game, a
main hero or 2 are out to defeat some evil menacing boss who
wants to take over the world. I still like this plot better
than most plots, even though they all are the same.
Graphics 8.0/10
The graphics look great everything is done well, and the
graphics blew me away. If you ever played Fatal Fury 2 in
the arcades you will know what I mean, they are quite close
to the arcade. Size movement and everything. The backgrounds
don't look as great as they use to; I remember them being
more vivid and brighter in the arcade. Here they look
slightly faded and just not as clear as I would have really
liked them to be. Though this doesn't hamper the experience
at all the size of the sprites more than makes up for the
lack luster background. The graphics do score well, and I
really like the little touches that put on the characters to
make them appear more realistic.
Sound 7.5/10
This game music is great. Every stage has great music, some
of the best music I heard on a Genesis fighting game. The
fighting sounds great too, with the infamous "Allow Me"
from Terry, it sounds just as clear hear as it did in the
arcades. I'm not a big fan of music on fighting games, there
usually distracting but this one isn't it is some of the
best I heard. Some over people said things too, but most of
it was in Japanese or in another language, it sounded quite
clear. The music really helped out the graphics and both of
these areas real score high.
Game Play 9.0/10
This game is for 1 or 2 players. It is a fighting game; best
two out of 3 rounds is the victor. There is a story mode,
and a vs. mode. Vs. Mode are where you play against a friend
or a , in this mode you can choose every character
even the bosses. On the story mode you cannot, you can only
choose the 12 regular characters. Each character has special
moves and desperation moves. Super moves can only be done
when your desperate, when your energy is red and flashing,
these are very powerful and just two of them can kill an
opponent. Special moves can be done anytime. Then there was
also something unique that allowed you to fight on two
different planes. If you pressed I think the Z button you
would switch planes and you would be either facing your
opponent. From the point of you of either they're back to
you or you actually facing them. You could do some
incredibly cheap moves from the other plane as well, and
also roll out of the corner in case your opponent is very
cheap like me. This wasn't thought out to well, some people
just keep switching planes and getting in a cheap shot. This
is one of those games you can't beat on beginner, you must
beat it on normal or higher to receive an ending. Because of
that this game difficulty is intermediate, because it is a
waist of time to beat it on beginner, unless you just want
to get the feel of the game then be my guest. There is no
passwords or battery back up.
Overall 8.0/10
This is a very good game and I enjoyed it quite a lot. This
is one of the few Fighting games on Genesis where you might
be all the characters and see the endings, most games get
boring after a while. With a unique hero type, and not the
wise and noble ones where use to seeing in other SF clones.
The replay value is high because at least, and possibly more
than half the characters you may want to see their
individual endings, all though these endings could of used
some work. The fun factor is pretty high too, this is a very
fun game, and its fun to have tournaments wit hfriends to
see who is the best. This game actually has a tournament
mode and its mega fun even woth just two players, it's an
elimination type though. If you played this in the arcades
or played other versions then I would advise you to get this
one too.
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