03-30-2007, 11:37 PM
The Tekken series are my personal favourite. Though the series got off to a rough start, by the time they reached Tekken 3, it was one of the most popular fighting game franchises of all time. In fact, Tekken 3 was ranked as #6 for the Greatest Playstation Games of All Time by GameRankings and #10 by GameSpot. It was pretty much a perfect port from the arcade with a few added bonuses like Tekken Force mode and a few new characters.
Another fighting game I really enjoy s Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha. The controls are super tight and responsive and, with enough time in the training room, the game teaches you how to pull off sick combos. Though the computer is sometimes obscenely cheap to the point of unbeatable (*coughGoukicough*) the game always manages to be fun. The music is some of the best ever heard in a fighting game. The music for Ken's and Sakura's stages is absolutely fantastic.
I've tried to like the Mortal Kombat series, but the developers continue to camouflage the lack of gameplay by making the computer AI so broken that you can't even do a jump kick without getting juggled across the screen in a series of about 30 hits. This was something they started back in the original and continues today.
Another fighting game I really enjoy s Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha. The controls are super tight and responsive and, with enough time in the training room, the game teaches you how to pull off sick combos. Though the computer is sometimes obscenely cheap to the point of unbeatable (*coughGoukicough*) the game always manages to be fun. The music is some of the best ever heard in a fighting game. The music for Ken's and Sakura's stages is absolutely fantastic.
I've tried to like the Mortal Kombat series, but the developers continue to camouflage the lack of gameplay by making the computer AI so broken that you can't even do a jump kick without getting juggled across the screen in a series of about 30 hits. This was something they started back in the original and continues today.