Virtua Fighter 5
by Sega Of America, Inc.
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Video Game Reviews of Virtua Fighter 5
Customer Review: Ok until Tekken is out
Summary: 3 Stars
To be honest, I bought it as a time-killer until Tekken is released. Until then, I still beat my friends up when they stop by to play. LOL!Customer Review: Gorgeous Graphics but Gameplay Needs Work
Summary: 3 Stars
Virtua Fighter 5 lets the graphics prowess of the PlayStation 3 shine. The question is whether great graphics alone can make a fighting game worth playing.
First, the good. The graphics in Virtua Fighter 5 are spellbindingly beautiful in many situations. The landscapes are lush. The movements of the fabrics are fluid and natural. The physics engine is quite impressive. Yes, sometimes the textures can be shiny, and the water more mercury-like that truly watery. Still, this is beautiful to watch.
The characters are each very unique. The look and feel of each character seems true to their background. Not only that, but each character's movements and actions is distinct to them. It's not that you have a "kung fu" style that is replicated 30 times across 30 different blue-green-yellow characters. They put a lot of work into ensuring that the characters are extremely differentiated.
That being said, the main gameplay is very restrictive. The square you can fight in is extremely small. There is limited interactivity - the snow moves away from where you step, the wooden walls might dent a little - but it is very small changes compared with what other modern games offer. The spectators in the background look like animatronic robots on a short movement loop.
There is a standard mode where you go through a series of rounds to win, and then an 'arcadey' mode where you are pretending to go to different arcades to challenge other players. In the arcadey mode, you can unlock new items and outfits for your characters. I would have appreciated a much greater depth of options here. It would be nice to have a story mode, where you can learn more about a given character and their background. Maybe a career mode where you learn new skills along the way and build up your reputation.
I think part of the problem was that the gameplay itself was great to watch, but rather easy to play. I realize this is great for new kids and new fighting gamers - but there should be more complexity to how the enemies react to you and start to pick up on your patterns. I could use the exact same three keystroke pattern to defeat all of the first 6 enemies I faced, without them ever learning to guard against me.
Which leads into the next problem. Usually in fighting games, you do all your training against the enemy AI to learn the keystroke combinations, so that you can face your real challenge - human opponents. Enemy AI is rarely as much fun to fight as a real, live human who has honed his or her skills to a razor's edge. But you don't have that option here! No online gameplay at all. So you can build up your character, learn the skills, perfect the techniques, and then ... what? Earn a new pair of sandals?
I really appreciate what they've achieved with the graphics and movements here. I give them kudos for that programming. Now it's time for them to take that work to the next level, and to bring it online, and to add in more complex gameplay and arenas.
Customer Review: How to overcomplicate a video game...
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the perfect example of how to make a game more complicated than it has to be. For a while I thought the Mortal Kombat games had the award for needlessly complicated. this just takes the cake, I mean you literally have a 'frame' system to work with, I mean come on, some of the moves in practice mode are just perplexing, you could be doing the combination perfect and it will just not execute. There is no story, no online, however the graphics are superb. And the computer, well someone already said it, either ridiculously easy, or ridiculously tough. Play the tekken game, this one isnt really worth more than 30 bones.Customer Review: meh
Summary: 2 Stars
Something about this game made it feel dated, and not in a good 'classic' way either. Gameplay is slow and often boring. The graphics are very nice and this game can play at high resolutions if you have a nice TV. They released Tekken: Dark Resurection on the playstation store for download, and its a better game for less than half the price of VF5. Customer Review: A definite buy
Summary: 5 Stars
Virtua Fighter 5 out shines it's predecessor by miles even though it doesn't have the tutorial mode from the 4th Evolution Ed. This game has improved graphics and faster game play.