Eternal Champions

"Almost as good as Street Fighter!!!"

It’s a fairly decent fighter and it’s pretty good. The grapics are really nice looking and theres no problems with them. The game shows great detail and looks great. The levels are nice looking and the backgrounds are detailed really well. The control is good and is very responsive although a 6-button pad will work a lot better than a 3-button pad. When you start the game you get to choose from 1 or 9 players. All of them have different fighting abilitys, moves, weaknessess, and speed. The characters are Shdow, Rax, Blade, Jetta, Slash, Trident, Xavier, Knight, and Larcen. Each of them are really cool looking show great detail and are really different people with different moves, combos, and weapons to use. The game is really awesome and is really easy to find with a real low price. The game has a lot of modes to keep you busy. Theres: Fight, Practice, 2-player mode, Contest, Battle Room, and Training Mode. All of these modes should keep you busy for a long time.

Story: Welcome to my chameber. I am the Eternal Champion, Keeper of this vast fighting complex. It exists in a place and time corrupted by centuries of misuse and destructions. My purpose in this grand scheme is to maintain the balance between good and evil, light and darkness hope and despair. Now this balance has been lost and the very fabric that holds the world together wil be tore apart. Your future, my presents, have been destroyed by a cruel and unjust twist of fate. My individuals from various periods in time were killed before their live could affect this dark existence. I have observed each of their short lives and have been powerless to stop the chaos. I have spent the centuries harnessing my power for this very moment. I am the pure and untouched energy of all the great martial arts masters that have lived before me. Their skill, wisdom, knowledge and inner-strength are at my command. Even with the force of their collective powers, I can only reward one of the nine individuals. With the gift of life any of them can have an equality profound effect on the future for this reason, the contest must take place. At the end of this contest, only one will remain. The victor will be returned to life a few seconds before his death, allowing him to avoid the past with the knowledge to change the future. Only one may live so that the balance may again be achieved. Let the contest begin...

GAMEPLAY **9**

The control is very responsive and is very fast. The only way to play this game is with a 6-button control pad, as a 3-button control pad just doesn't work very well. Theres nothing with the control either controller will work but the 6-button gives you move move combos. All of the moves are easy too pull off and shouldn't take any time at all to learn how to perform them. Although learning all the moves for all 9 characters should take some time as theres alot of moves to learn and learning when to do them. Perfect timing is the key to winning in this game.

SOUND / MUSIC **8**

The games music seems to just repeats itself and it gets boring pretty fast although sometimes there may be new music once in awhile. The game music isn't really all that great and its pretty boring and is boring. The sounds in this game are awesome. Theres sounds for a bunch of things in this game, which makes it really exciting. Especially the characters they make all kinds of sounds when activating devices and other stuff. The sounds are very detailed and sound great. If the music weren’t as lame and boring this game would be the bomb.

GRAPHICS / LEVEL DESIGN **9**

The graphics in this game are pretty good looking altough sometimes they get pretty choppy. The characters are detailed and look great and they don't have many problems with it. The grapics don't have many problems and everything shows a lot of detail and time put into them. The graphics aren't ground breaking but there nice looking. The levels are really cool and I like them a lot. Theres a lot of detail in the background and they look great. Theres quite a few different levels. The levels are really awesome although I wish there were some stuff to interact with like in Street Fighter 2 on the Super Nintendo.

REPLAYABILITY **8**

The game has plenty of modes as listed in the intro of my review. The game is fun by yourself or with a friend. All of the modes are very entertaining and are gonna last some time. Theres plenty of charcaters to learn there moves and have fun with. It will take quite some time to get rid of this game as it provides hours of fun with all of its modes. Too bad it’s a fighting game.

CHALLENGE **MEDIUM**

The game is fairly hard as the game lacks a difficulty setting. The game will be harder to those who make it hard. The game is fairly easy if you pick a person that you know their moves, strengths, and weaknesses. Learn all the moves for your character, as it will make the game a lot easier. To some people this game may be easy but to others it could be very hard. It all depends on how oftern you play fighting games.

OVERALL **9**

This game is full of fun for anyone. The game has plenty of modes, a 2-player mode, and lots of sweet graphics. The game is awesome and should be able to be found for a little bit of nothing. The game is and excellent fighting game with a few problems. I'd pay around $5 for it. Its a sweet game that will definately be worth it to any fighting game fan.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 10/22/00, Updated 08/14/02