I’m at an age where putting in my pin number at the supermarket checkout is like being on a quiz show – no way am I learning those moves.
There’s a training room where you can try to learn each character’s best moves, but I gave that up like a bad job really bloody fast – just look at the image down below of the “basic” combo. Something I did find to be a bit of a disappointment was the lack of single-player modes outside of Arcade. The good news is that it worked really well and although I get my arse handed to me, I can’t blame the lag for the pounding, just my own lack of skills. I got a couple of rounds in, but that’s it. I tried over the course of a couple of days, morning, noon, and night, and sometimes so late at night, it was almost morning. Sadly, for me, I wasn’t able to get much time in with the online play due to other reviewers just not being as dedicated to the job as your man Chris here. The only way to get a real challenge, then, is to ramp up the difficulty or go online and fight against other humans. I even passed the controller to my five-year-old boy, Charlie, and he was able to get to the bonus round fight against Dural, though his approach was far less refined and when he lost to Dural, his tantrum was much louder than mine. I’m not a fighting game expert by any means, but I was laying the smackdown with real ease. I was surprised to find that on Normal difficulty the game was really easy. Most of my scrapping in Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown was spent in Arcade Mode against the A.I opponents. Though that could be the necrosis of my liver… Every time his voice comes through my TV, I die a little bit.
The characters look and move in a way that feels great when smashing the buttons and hoping for success, though there’s something about the way they speak that turns me off, especially that annoying little prick Lion. They return in Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown, along with a bunch of familiar faces, and if you’re an old-timer like me, some of those familiar faces will feel new, especially given that they actually look like people now, rather than Lara Croft’s violent cousins. I actually had a Virtua Fighter game for the SEGA Saturn, too, and I remember thinking the Ninja guy was cool and that the drunk old fella was funny. I’m old enough to remember sliding 20ps into arcade machines to make blocky people smack each other.
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What I can say is that Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown has brought the series a long way from where I remember it. I didn’t play Virtua Fighter 5 back in its day, so I can’t say if it’s faithful or not, but I’ve given the game a quick go on PS Now and they seem to play very similarly, so if you’ve been around the block before, you won’t get lost on this return journey.
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It’s essentially the same game that released almost a decade ago on the PS3 and Xbox 360, but with a modern lick of paint and a few tweaks to the game’s appearance. Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown is what Virtua Fighter fans want – a competent fighter wrapped in a modern package.