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Review: Art of Fighting on the Wii Virtual Console
The Wii Virtual Console is opening up the floodgates to some exceptionally excellent classic fighting games. We’ve seen the re-introduction of titles like Fatal Fury, but what about that SNK Street Fighter II clone that got everyone worked up? Art of Fighting, I found, was pretty lame when it hit arcades the first time around, mostly because it was such a blatant rip-off of what Capcom was doing with the Street Fighter franchise. Guess what? Re-introducing Art of Fighting to the world via the Wii Virtual Console doesn’t change much.
IGN had the opportunity to take the VC version of Art of Fighting out for a test drive and they were equally unimpressed with just about every aspect of the game. Characters? Hah!
Art of Fighting’s character roster leaves something to be desired, and especially so in single-player mode – there, you can only choose to be one of two different heroes. Fatal Fury was the same way, restricting the selection so the story would continue to make sense, but it’s not much of a selection process when your decision of who to use could be made by flipping a coin.
The rest of the picture doesn’t get much better. They say that it is “lacking any depth in its fighting engine.” The vocalizations for the fighters are “weak” and gameplay is “very bland and basic”, despite the introduction of taunting and a spirit meter. The only positive is the elimination of invisible walls in Art of Fighting, favoring a new “zooming, scaling effect that was very impressive for its time.” In the end, they give Art of Fighting on the Virtual Console a paltry score of 4.5 out of 10.
So, yeah, save your money for something else. Like Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting. Check out the full review here.
Top 10 Best Fighting Games of All-Time
From Street Fighter to Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur to Tekken, there have been a lot of fighting games. We’ve mastered the art of the quarter circle forward and we’re anxious to learn a whole new fatality. With so many options available to us, it can be very difficult to narrow down the list to a mere ten games, but here they are. Hop on over to FutureLooks to discover the Top 10 Best Fighting Games of All-Time. Some of the choices may surprise you, but here’s a spoiler: Smash Bros. doesn’t make the list, because it’s not a conventional fighting game. Take that, Mario!
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Retro Gaming: World Heroes
After Street Fighter II hit arcades in 1991 and everyone realized just how great fighting games were, every other company started developing all sorts of Street Fighter clones. They’ll probably never own up to it, but there’s no denying the similarities between the Street Fighter universe and these games. One of the lesser known variants that you may have played on an old school Neo Geo machine is World Heroes. In the video clip below, you’ll find a character named Kim Dragon (who looks a little too much like Bruce Lee) go into battle against M. Bison Brocken.
I actually like Brocken, because he had extendo-limbs like Dhalsim, as well as rockets that shot out of his arms. Some say that he was a dialed down version of a Nazi, but really, he’s just one crazy robot. And who doesn’t like robots?
