The Lone Gamer

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Sega continues building the anticipation for this long-awaited fighter.

Even with all the cool fighters that have come and are coming this year and so forth, if I were to pick one single title to arrive RIGHT NOW it would certainly be Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. You’d be forgive for being not too in the know about this though- but hardcore fighting gamers (even a Hardcore Casual Fighting Gamer like me) will surely know and respect (or revere) Sega’s VF series and it’s place in the genre. VF5 first came out last several years ago, in the beautiful but markedly unspectacular, non-online PS3 version. This was followed quite some time later by an online-capable Xbox360 version.

After that though, silence for several years, and we all had to stare and gawk like sad, hungry street urchins as Japanese arcade gamers played VF5 Revision after Revision. VF5 Final Showdown is (I assume) the FINAL Revision, or at least, series of Revisions, of this particular chapter of VF, and from all indications it’s pretty kick-ass with lots of significant changes to the fighting action, up and over the addition of new, sinister Karateka character Jean Kujo and returning Sumo Taka-arashi. VF5FS saw the addition of VF’s answer to ‘Bound’ moves from Tekken 6- slamming moves which place the opponent in an odd half-standing, half-staggered stunned state, allowing for extended combos. Defense and blocking is allowed from side attacks, and there are tons of new techniques for everyone as well as new animations and reactions which make the action even more visceral and cool as the AM2 Team intends.

THANKFULLY we gaijin gamers are all getting VF5FS (and hopefully the newest version) via DLC on PSN and Xboxlive this coming Summer. Sega has recently begun the hype-train for their digital download fighter, continuing with the vid above- a segment at On the Spot over at Gamespot. Nicely enough, we finally get to see the actual game, including a look at the new Training mode, and the somewhat ridiculous knowledge that this game has over 10,000 customization items, many of which will be distributed via DLC (I’m sure the game will have a bunch already bundled in out of the non-existent box).

Obviously, Sega will want to milk as much money from this as possible, but I want this game so much that I have to say that they just price them reasonably, put them out ASAP and they’re freakin’ SOLD. I just want my arcade-perfect, complete VF5FS yesterday. For now, check out the vid above. Man, I can’t wait for summer.

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