Dreamcast's 2D Fighting Gems Shine Through
The Retro Gaming With Racketboy weblog has a very fun article up discussing the Sega Dreamcast's 2D fighting game roster.
As the intro points out: "The Dreamcast was strongly supported by both Capcom and SNK. It received many of the best fighting games before the PS2, XBox, and Gamecube. There are also a number of great games (mostly SNKs) that did not get a port to the newer console or the ports were inferior."
Some of the highlights include Last Blade 2 ("Many SNK fans consider the Last Blade series to be what Samurai Shodown 3 and 4 should have been"), as well as the extremely fun Mark Of The Wolves ("modernized fighting system... is basically SNK's counterpart to Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.") Anyone else got a favorite DC fighter?
Comments
it's not so much 2D, but i must say that i spent a good percentage of my junior year in college playing Soul Caliber. still one of my favorite games ever.
Posted by: percenttwenty | April 5, 2006 2:27 PM
My favorite 2d fighter on the dreamcast must be guilty gear x, it has a excellent fighting sytem, memorable characters and on top of that great graphics and visuals. Without a doubt the most played dreamcast game for me....
I also played al lot of capcom vs snk, that game had the best stage intro's ever.
Posted by: Magnum P.I. | April 6, 2006 12:23 AM
i'd say rival schools, that game is just so awesome
Posted by: CaSCaDe | April 6, 2006 1:23 AM