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Name: Virtua Fighter 2
Author/Vendor: Sega
Released: 1996
Type: Fighting
Language: English
Premise: Sega's answer to Battle Arena Toshinden - one of the first third-generation fighting games with the same style as Mortal Kombat, but using new techology to deliver a true 3D street fighting experience.
Impressions: Well, what can I say? The requirements of the original were so steep that only the 32X could deliver on a true port of the arcade game. This is a "special edition" rendered in now-familiar 2D side-scroll SF2 style in order to avoid the hardware limitations of a standard Genesis console. It's probably the best SF2 clone in existence for the console, but it seems kinda stale after you've experienced its 32X predecessor.
Variations: Virtua Fighter (32X version, an excellent port of the 3D arcade original - see separate entry under the 32X section for more details)
Recommended Emu: Genecyst X