Virtua Fighter 2 (PC)

It’s fun but not great; it’s reasonably addictive without grabbing you. It does well in most areas but never quite dazzles – I guess I’m saying it’s all right. It falls down in the same way that a lot of this genre does – a novice with quick random key presses can do reasonably well even against a decent player. The alternative is someone happens on (or trawls the web for) a special move and uses it ad infinitum… I suppose the issue is that most of these games rely too much on ‘extra/big/powerful/combo’ style things and defence is just not worth bothering about. Classic beat em’ ups of ...  Read the complete review