Project Justice

"Capcom strikes back with the student fighters again."

Project Justice is one the games that really captivated, of of the funniest fighting games, it's the continuation of a pretty underrated series called Rival Schools, I must confess I never played RS before, but now, I c what I missed.

-GRAPHICS-
Superb, the graphs aren't disappointing in anyway.
The 3D chars when they come to show their faces after the game is over, looks a mix of Cel-Shading with 3D effects, the graphics are all 3D, even the BGs that aren't much animated.
You can go anywhere in a stage, but as far as you go, you can't reach the objects, that would be cool, like DOA2.
The chars although being very good, when it comes to the frenzy of extremely combos and lotta movements, it gets clipped, but not always, sometimes.
The multicombo effect will amaze you, it proves the power of dc.
The Backgrounds are mirages, they are so beautiful, a lot detailed, undoubtelly, I only want that the chars have more quality.

-GAMEPLAY-
The gameplay is so good, let's start talking about the modes of gameplay, the game has 5 modes of gameplay for your fun, and two submodes.
The first is arcade mode, you have story mode, where you pick a team but you can't have a custom team, you must choose one of already done, once chosen, you will fight 7 episodes I think, as far as you go, the enemies will be cheaper, mainly the last but one boss and the last boss, they cheat, they're cheap, I had to win them using pressing the famos two buttons.
Some teams do have very good useful things pressing the two buttons, like healing your fighter or taking more damage of the enemy, some are very funny, like when they dance.
The second mode is free, you can make a custom team, but don't expect story, it's just the old arcade style.
A Training mode was included, pretty good, but do not expect much, it's only the basic you'll need to make your char very powerful, There's something I disliked in this, is because the game has a very good and technique engine that the training mode needs to have more options, well it's not so bad, but give a look.
A Pretty good idea used badly, was the tournament mode, ell, you can make the style of Tenkaichi Budoukai in dbz, if you don't know, you'll learn very fast, I Wanted that in this mode were only 1vs1 one, to fight 2 members at each round is too long, another problem is that the cpu is too cheap here, I dunno, but I found cpu easier in arcade mode than in tournament, I was beaten in the first round.
There's another kind of mod too, similar to tournament, But I didn't play it much.
In the options menu you can choose the game engine, you can set the number of gauge to start, if you are a newbie, and cheap, you'll need to put it on infinity, otherwise, choose your own.
Hahaha I did notice that some moves are from SF, let's see Evil Batsu, he sent me Tiger Shot, the same of Sagat, a member (whe, I can't remember the names) of Hayato's team, has Shoryuken.
The only downpart is that, some newbies will get confused with the system and the way the cpu acts, regular fighting players that had played other games in past must get inside the game in some hours. but the newbies will be screwed and destroyed merciless, because the CPU is too cheap..

SCORING
GRAPHICS:: 90%
Sound: 86%
Gameplay: 92%
Extras: 80%
Story 94%
Fun: 98%
Overall: 88%

CLOSING STATEMENT
Project School for me one of the best games ever created, even being hard, It'll provide fun for you trying to beat the last bosses Hyo and Demonhyo, if you are a newbie, I recommend you for picking other game and get more experienced with fighting games before try this.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 11/30/01, Updated 11/30/01