Virtua Fighter Remix

The Good
The Virtua Fighter series is one of the most balanced fighting game series out there. Each character has weaknesses and strengths that are perfectly evened out throughout the game offering the player the opportunity to develop a strategy against each individual character. The game avoids the pitfall of having certain characters generally stronger or weaker than others.

Control is precise, and you never feel like you are really out of control of your character. Graphically the game has been overtaken by a long shot, but it still looks respectable enough.

The Bad
Modern Windows machines struggle to run VF properly, but it is possible to get it going. The sound really is nothing special, especially the bland and uninspiring music.

The Bottom Line
When the fighting game craze passed over throughout the 90s, it seems like us PC owners got left behind. With no conversions of Tekken, and absolutely pee-poor versions of the Street Fighter games, it seemed like the PC was never going to be a platform suited for fighting games. Virtua Fighter was the exception - not only was it one of the best fighting games on the PC, but it was one of the best fighting games ever, since surpassed only by its sequels. It's just a shame that VF3, 4 and 5 never made it to the PC.

The Good
The graphics are much more polished then the original Virtua fighter. They really look like they should. This is better because even in 1995, the original saturn VF looked terrible! The old version's graphics were so glitchy, but in Remix, they look fine. The controls (in my opinion) were better too. Special moves were much easier to do in Remix. The fighting is about the same as the original, straight-forward 3-D fighting. Only in this version it's much more playable.

The Bad
For some reason in this version, they some-how made it harder! I beat the original Saturn VF several times. But in THIS one, I can't even get past Pai!(on EASY!) Fighting games should be simple to just pick up and play.

The Bottom Line
Despite the Insane difficulty, VF Remix is a solid game worth picking up on your Saturn. It has smooth controls, a good fighting system, and overall, good gameplay!