Street Fighter. Now, on to the proceedings.Īs 2-D transitioned into 3-D and consoles like the N64 and PlayStation overtook the aging SNES and Sega Genesis, the fighting game boom that happened in the mid-90’s was undergoing a similar transition. Cyclops/Spider-Man) in Marvel Super Heroes Vs.

This was something that was possible in the Sega Saturn port with the help of a RAM expansion, but the closest the PSOne ever got was being able to tag provided both people are using the same combination of characters (ex Spider-Man/Cyclops Vs. I bring this up because I’m well aware that the PlayStation ports of both of these games were nowhere near close to being arcade perfect, with the most glaring omission being the fact that you can’t have true 2v2 tag-matches like in the arcade. Where I grew up, there was plenty of places to buy and rent N64 and PSOne games, however it was near impossible to play anything on the Saturn. Secondly, I didn’t grow up in close proximity to an arcade that housed these games, nor did I own a Sega Saturn or for that matter, knew anyone who even had one. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but if these games were released in rapid succession today like they were back then, I’m sure Capcom wouldn’t be able to escape the crosshairs of the internet at large. Far that reason, to me at least, these games outside of their rosters and a few modes are nearly identical.

I’m doing this mainly because I’m a very casual fan of fighting games that doesn’t have the keen eye to pick out the subtle differences in balancing between these two titles that a more seasoned, hardcore fan of the genre would be able to. I’d like to offer some full disclosure before I get into reviewing these two games, starting off with why I’m lumping them into one review instead of breaking them apart. I don’t think this was something planned, but it certainly does look that way, doesn’t it? Street Fighter and then was followed by Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Then, once the cross-over phenomena started, it did so with Marvel Comics X-Men Vs. Series were first being planted, there came X-Men: Children of the Atom which was precedded by Marvel Super Heroes. Is it just me, or did it seem like Capcom habitually used the X-Men as a testing ground for larger Marvel Universe ideas? On the SNES, there was X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse which was followed by Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. When the seeds of the Vs.

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