Otherwise, steer clear of this unheroic home translation.

Street Fighter is worth a cautionary rental at best.

If you're dying to pit the super heroes against the Street Fighters, X-Men vs. Even the highest turbo setting doesn't hasten the game's pace. The fighters suffer from jerky animation, and some of the screen-filling super moves bring the action to a grinding halt-which ruins your timing. The biggest villains are the flagging animation and torturously slow gameplay. This reduces the game to a one-on-one fighter and removes the diversity that made the arcade version so much fun to play.Įven as a straight one-on-one fighting game, though, X-Men vs. Instead, your partner can only briefly enter the fray during a Team-Up Move or Counter. Right off the bat, the game suffers a major setback in this translation: Unlike in the Saturn import, you can't change fighters at will during a match. SF quickly tumbles to the bottom of Capcom's PlayStation brawl barrel. Add in the discarded change-fighter feature, and X-Men vs. Street Fighter finally arrives on the PlayStation, only to be KO'd by an evil tag-team of choppy graphics and slow gameplay. You have your standard arcade mode, the ability to fight a friend, and a training mode and that is all that is on offer here. Now, the Sega Saturn version has this feature and it is awesome, but the PlayStation was not able to handle it so they stripped this feature away! This was very annoying, but the game is still a lot of fun.īy today's standards, I must admit that the game is very lacking in terms of game modes. You pick two characters, any two that you want that X-Men vs Street Fighter offers you and you need to defeat a series of teams before facing off against Apocalypse. The big gameplay gimmick here is the tag feature. The character roster is awesome, but it is interesting how the Street Fighter characters appear to be more based on their Alpha version. You have characters such as Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li on the Street Fighter side and Wolverine, Cyclops and Gambit on the X-Men side. There are 16 characters (well 17, but Akuma is a secret one) you have eight from Street Fighter and eight from X-Men. This one has Apocalypse the villain from X-Men as the main villain and it is up to our heroes to stop him. What some people forget is that X-Men vs Street Fighter is actually the third in another series! You see before this we had X-Men Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes, both of which are great games. While it is easy to talk about this game as the first in the Vs series.

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