Virtua Fighter 3tb (DC)

I have to admit that I've always had a soft spot for Virtua Fighter 3tb. The arcade game from which it spawned was the last machine I can claim to have got any real challenge out of, and given the dying nature of the fighting game in the arcades, I'm sure you can imagine even then it wasn't much. As if to further condemn the game, it was released on the Dreamcast, a console that was never all that popular, and the game was already quite old by the time the console got released, so many gamers passed it up in favour of newer, made for DC games. And as if all of that wasn't enough, the game also had to live up to the unimaginable pressure of living up to Virtua Fighter 2, ...

This was one of the titles I bought when I purchased my UK Dreamcast and I have to say it really disappoints me. It feels like your characters are fighting in treacle, every response they make is incredibly slow and it's impossible to get into the fights. The character animation is unimpressive and I found there was really nothing to hold me to the game. What perhaps makes the title worse is when you compare it to Soul Calibur which was released a while after VF3tb. There the animation is fluid and your characters responsive, you actually feel like you're part of the fight. Here the game seems to g out of it's way to put you off. The only time it ...

Virtua Fighter 3 TB was not the success that Sega had hoped for, but then the arcade conversion wasn’t all that spectacular to say the least! The graphics are good, but pale in comparison to the might Soul Calibur and the fantastic Dead or Alive 2, and aren’t really a match for PS2’s Tekken Tag either, but the game is still worth a look at if you can find it for under £20. All the classic fighters are back with new moves and fighting styles. The music should be a lot better though and the sound effects are poor. I hope that Virtua Fighter X, appearing on all formats in 2002, will be much better, I’m sure it will. The graphics, as I ...