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IGN's Latest Virtua Fighter 5 Impressions

Characters themselves sport a fantastic degree of individual personality, thanks to beautifully fluid animations and texturing. In particular, when the camera zooms in close at the start of fights or for some post-match victory posturing, everything from individual pores to streaks of sweat are evident in all their hi-definition glory. Clothing too flaps and billows convincingly during battle, with environmental elements directly affecting material, whether its repeated contact with water dampening then drenched clothing or costumes catching in the wind.

Arenas are equally stunning, with stages like Snow Mountain drenched in evening light that cascades through distant rugged peaks, while mist creeps across the ground and birds flock in the sky. In fact, whether it's a golden-red sunset playing over rippling water, snow crunching under fighters' feet or gnarled trees bending in the wind amidst the thick of a lightning storm, you can't help but be impressed by the level of graphical finesse on display.

Bhai6357d ago (Edited 6357d ago )

...has been running since TGS last year, which means around 3 month prior to DOA4 released, and all those next-gen nuances are loaded into it which DOA4 misses...like:

-Simulated water.
-Clothes getting wet and their appearances changing.
-Ground deforming in snow and sand(much improved over PS2's VF4 deformations) and breakable floors.
-Skin details on the characters like pores, sweat and wrinkles.
-Cloth and hair simulation and perfect clipping.
-Highly dynamic backgrounds, with breaking up, thunderstorms, lightening etc.
-Tunable AI(Just like in PS2's VF4).
-Most authentic martial arts ever !!!

So, in 2007, this beauty of beaties embraces PS3, and we'll get real lucky.

SuperSaiyan46357d ago

Sorry to burst your fanboy bubble but lets see now, DOA4 came out last year, still no PS3 in site then and even now no PS3 for EUROPE. A whole extra year to work on a fighting game or any game for that matter is enough to allow a developer to do many things to a game.
Oh and you are not lucky at all, Sony have lost lots of their exclusives I mean look at the recent 2 losses. 360 also has many other great games that outshine the PS3 games and they should considering the GPU in the 360 is FAR more advanced than the PS3 gpu.

Bhai6356d ago

VF5 was being played in the same quality in the last year TGS, didn't you read right ? Go on, check out it was running with all these arenas and next-gen features 3 months before DOA4 was released. So in all the debate, DOA4 still was nothing but an upgrade on DOA-Ultimate, but VF5 has always been total next-gen, yeah, it was completed on arcades 3 months before DOA4, so you better get concerned about your fanboy-istic bubbles from now on buddy !

kingboy6357d ago

i played this game last month and boy..! it`s freaking great 10/10

THAMMER16357d ago

One of the best fighting games ever.

drewdrakes6357d ago

Holy crap, the water effects do look amazing, way to go Mr. Developer.

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PlayStation Now games for June: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Virtua Fighter 5, Slay the Spire

Plus celebrate Sonic’s 30th anniversary with a trio of titles: Sonic Mania, Team Sonic Racing and Sonic Forces.

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Sgt_Slaughter1059d ago

What is?

Witcher III, Slay the Spire, Virtua Fighter 5, and Sonic Mania are an excellent lineup of titles to add.

Smok911059d ago (Edited 1059d ago )

Lol thanks for your thoughts. Let’s now collectively disagree.

waderae1059d ago

How can you disagree with virtua fighter 5? You haven't played it. It's not out.

Hawk1986661058d ago

All the disagreeing are fools. You thinking adding a 6yrs old game thats timed, that's on sale nearly all the time for cheap is a great addition as the main game?? 2 of the games are previous PS+ games so a lot will already have them. And Virtua Fighter nearly everyone will already have that through plus! You're all Clueless

SegaSaturn6691059d ago

Those are great titles. Real treat.

Rocosaurus1059d ago

Love witcher 3, but that game is six years old.

Eidolon1058d ago

Great great game. Would need another playthrough (Gwent and horse racing) to get the platinum, plus I never bought/played the expansions.

monkey6021059d ago

Slay the Spire is an incredible game

Highrevz1059d ago

Agreed but I almost slept on it if I’m honest.

It’s like a traditional turn based RPG without the dramatic story. Monster Train is another good game if you need something similar to Slay the Spire.

monkey6021059d ago

I've heard that actually. Not played it yet though. Good shout!

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10 Fighting Games That Deserve To Be Resurrected Next-Gen

Although fighting games are entering a new Golden Age, there's a number of franchises that deserve to be brought back.

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darthv721505d ago

I'd love to see Sega bring back Eternal Champions.

BlackTar1871505d ago

Why is there no Star Gladiator or Battle Arena Toshinden?

Terry_B1505d ago

Because the other 10 mentioned series were better. Star Gladiator 2 was just the first part with more characters, Battle Arena Toshinden went really downhill after the 2nd game.

BlackTar1871505d ago (Edited 1505d ago )

o got it. Cause you said those games aren't as good... Got it.

since Battle 1&2 were pretty damn good and Star Gladiator 1 was very good those sound like perfect games to remake.

Also saying a fighting game is the same as it's predecessor with more characters sums up like 90% of all sequel fighting games.

Also BA3 was not a bad game and wasn't given a bad reception.

Skuletor1505d ago (Edited 1505d ago )

I think licensing is one of the major reasons Fight for NY hasn't been ported, since its original release. Def Jam had a poll on their Twitter a year or two ago asking if people would be interested in a new entry to the series. A surprise next gen release with AKI developing it would be cool

Silly gameAr1505d ago

Definitely yes to Weaponlord, Bloody Roar, Rival Schools, Power Stone, Bushido Blade, Darkstalkers, and the Def Jam games. I was really big into fighting games when I was younger. I would Like Primal Rage, B.A,T., and Eternal Champions to come back as well.

BlackTar1871505d ago

Primal Rage was good. There was also another game that was kinda like Weaponlord that I used to really like but I can't remember the name.

Ready to Rumble was cool back int he day as well

Ninver1505d ago

Rival schools and virtual fighters

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What Happened To Virtua Fighter?

It’s been a while since we got a new Virtua Fighter game. What’s going with the series?

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ApocalypseShadow1742d ago (Edited 1742d ago )

Ask Sega. All of Yu's games haven't gotten updates. And they aren't helping to bring Shenmue 3 to console and PC. Spent most of their time on Sonic and Yakuza. Like they forgot the man that got them started. He was the "Miyamoto of Sega." Too many hits under hits belt.

VF is one of the best if not the best, technical fighters around based on real fighting styles. No supers, no finishers,etc. I wish there wasn't any juggling. It was fun as a videogame mechanic but I would like full realism for a fighting game. It's like adding nos to Gran Turismo. Would be fun. Just doesn't fit the realism Kaz wants in his game of winning through skill and perseverance.

I'm hoping for a new Sega surge of games in and out of VR and more respect for Yu and his properties. It's just not the same Sega I grew up with though.

As a side thing, Sega could have even updated Last Bronx to a modern fighter like Namco did with Soul Blade to Soul Calibur.
https://youtu.be/Wl8qIQKMsb...
But they've sat on that too.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH1741d ago

I 100% agree with what you said about VF. As someone who use to play VF5 at a high level I want nothing more than VF6 however, I’m scared to see what would happen to VF in this day and age of super meters, rage bars and 100 hit combos.

SierraGuy1741d ago

Exactly...I love Tekken but I love VF a little bit more.

tulholdren1741d ago (Edited 1741d ago )

Loved me some VF wish they would update the game i still remember my first Jeffery power bomb on VF 1.

PhoenixUp1740d ago

What happened to a lot of Sega’s classic franchises?