Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution

"Making The Best... Even Better!"

One of the greatest fighting games ever... Virtua Fighter 4. Gets itself a make-over! Virtua Fighter 4 : Evolution not only gets itself a make-over it is being sold as the Greatest Hits version of Virtua Fighter 4! Making a happy consumer. And its easy on the pocketbook.
How great is that!? (Greatest Hits Price=19.99)

Graphics: I cant see any MAJOR improvement over the originals graphics... But it does have some cool stages. Like when fighting in snow and you fall down. It makes an imprint. And stays there! And helicopters flying around lighting up the battle at night. Its pretty hard to improve on the excellent graphics of the original. But I guess they somehow do it with the new and improved lighting effects. They hold such a special place in my heart.

Gameplay: This is where the game deserves the word ''Evolution'' slapped on the end of the name. With the beefed up quest mode. With over 1500 different things to unlock to make your player look cool, Make the title screen look different, and so much more! The quest mode gets pretty darn hard. Putting you up to some of the best Tokyo VF4 players. And the training mode is so good it will make you better at not only VF4 but fighting games period. It teaches you to predict,react and defend. To the extent you feel like Neo from the Matrix. And being able to dodge bullets. Then they put in a beefed up 10th anniversary edition of Virtua Fighter 1 for good measure. And to put the salt and pepper on top they put in 2 new characters to play around with! Simply great!! All that is just the tip of the ice burg. When you buy the game you will see what I mean!

Story: Well the story doesn't play much of a part in its greatness. It is just a little thing hanging around for the people that get so hardcore with the game they want to know everything. Most of the story is only included in the instruction manual. But they just include little bits in the game. Very small bits.

Replay Or No Replay?: You will play this game again and again. There is so much stuff to do it will hook you in and never let go! That's what makes it so interesting. I cant stop playing it...

Rent Or Buy: In my opinion it would be to buy this game. But many people are very big on fighting games. Even if you are not big on fighting games this is an easy game to pick up and play. But very hard to master. And the training mode can help you become as good as a person who has played almost his whole life... Plus its only 20 bucks... How can you go wrong??

Ending Statement: Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution is not only a good fighting game but its a good game period as I stated before. The game should appeal to Hardcore Gamers and the Casual Gamers as well. Thank you for reading and peace...

Cloud Strife 344

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 08/28/03