While they have only one move each, these helpers can be a surprise for your opponent if you under-use them. In a unique twist on the traditional team fighting mold, you are allowed a random (or not so random, if you know what you're doing) helper to pop in to give you a hand in hairy situations. While quite a few critics out there aren't very fond of this feature, I am. Next on the honorary list is the helper system. 32-Bit systems can't do this stuff folks. In fact, it's so visually orgasmic that I couldn't help but smile and smile big whenever something cool happened. At even the most frantic moments of combo-madness, the backgrounds and characters move just as fluidly as they did before the insanity began. Everything from the way Venom moves his tongue to Gambit's trench coat blowing in the wind is done with such precision, that feasting your eyes upon it is more like experiencing a Saturday morning cartoon than a videogame. First to be mentioned has to be MvC's animation. Now that I have done my duty and given you fair warning, I can tell you all about the 2D goodness found within. Invest in a stick now (or at least one of those Quantum Fighter Pads) and you'll thank your local shopkeeper a million times over. Some of the more spectacular moves are damn nigh impossible to pull off without the proper equipment. As comfortable as SEGA's official pad is, it is a definite no-no for fighters. Use the AgeTec or Interact Alloy sticks if you can, but please don't try it with the default controller. Before I go any further though, let me provide a warning: Under no circumstances should you play this game with anything but an arcade stick. If you loved it before, get ready to fall in love all over again. Everything from the music to the selection screen to the control layout is identical to the stand-up version.
#MARVEL VS CAPCOM CLASH OF SUPER HEROES FULL#
I can throw together as many Dragon Renders, Surge Fists, and Flower Bundle Bombs as I want in full coin-op glory! And I can do it all with no slow down or missing frames of animation faster than you can say "Shinkuu Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyakuu". Capcom a done deal, my chance to play my woman in an attempt for redemption has finally arrived! And to my merry delight, I can have my chance in the most arcade-perfect rendition of a Capcom game there has ever been (Or at least, as perfect as it can be until Street Fighter Alpha 3 hits the states). With the release of both the Japanese and American Dreamcast versions of Marvel vs. The more I became familiar with MvC, the more I began to appreciate it for what it is, and the more I was interested.įlash forward to almost two years later. While a lot of the game's moves and two-in-one executions were similar, the method of attack, and possible combinations you could pull off were distinctly different. Capcom fighting engine or not, this was NOT Street Fighter. could they? As I sat back and watched her systematically destroy the CPU opponents, I began to understand why I had been scrubbed like the bathroom floor. Hulk+lets+Dunham+Smash! What happened? I was the Street Fighter sensei damn it! My Ryu and Chun Li (in her appropriate blue togs) couldn't possibly have fallen to Morrigan and a sissy-pink Chun Li counterpart. The only difference here, I thought, is that I pick two characters to tag-team instead of one, right? So, it was just as I prepared to show my future sweetie what I was made of, that she handed me the beating of my life, and effectively kicked my ass in less than 15 seconds. This WAS a Street Fighter clone after all! A game that I had spent years and years mastering with friends, relatives, and any Tom, Dick, and Ken I could find at the local arcade. I sat there mesmerized, not only by the hotness playing the coin-up, but the insane action taking place onscreen.Īnxious to try my hand (and impress the girl with my profound fighting skills), I popped my two quarters into the cabinet and took my stance. Yes I know, I must have been caught under a rock somewhere, because up until that point, I had never laid eyes on Marvel vs. While that fine establishment's selection was mostly of the driving and shooting variety, she managed to find the fighters section and moseyed on over to a machine I hadn't seen before.
A few moments after I met my future girlfriend for the first time, we headed down to the local "Fun Putt" to play some games.