Guilty Gear XX Accent Core

2D fighting games may not be as popular as they used to be, but Arc System Works' Guilty Gear series has continued to chug along over the years. The newest edition in the series is Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, and just in case the title didn't make it obvious, this is the latest edition in a long-running series with a lot of different features that have evolved over time. Even so, casual fighting-game fans should be able to get into the game rather easily. It isn't hard to get started dishing out big, long combination attacks by hammering away on various buttons. But hardcore Guilty Gear fans will get the most out of the new game because it has a few new features that make higher-level play a bit more interesting. Just make sure you have either a Classic or GameCube controller handy, because even though the game supports the Wii Remote with Nunchuk attachment, it's best played on a more traditional controller.

Like with many other games of this sort, this 2D fighting game offers one-on-one matchups between characters inspired by Japanese anime cartoon designs who heroically shout out the names of their mighty fighting techniques in battle. In the Guilty Gear series, you can attack your opponent with a combination of punches, kicks, and two different types of "slashing" attacks (most characters carry a weapon or some equivalent) by stringing together punches, kicks, and slashes with other types of attacks on the ground, and also in the air as part of extended "juggle" attacks. But the game's character designs are clearly intended to be as bizarre as possible. Among the roster, you'll find a masked man who wields a pool cue as a weapon; a young girl whose weapon is a gigantic talking key that's bigger than she is; and a hunched-over zombie who won't stop talking to himself. Technically, none of the game's default characters is all-new, but several characters have been updated and fine-tuned slightly for balance purposes. Pretty much all of the game's characters seem strong enough to compete against each other.

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Here comes another sequel for the old awesome anime ever from Japan, the Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Most gamers are focusing with the new ones like Naruto and Bleach and any other anime from Japan that is turned into games. This games are getting popular eh? After all, I find them very enjoyable to play especially with my friends.

To keep track with the tradition, Budokai Tenkaichi 3 offers plenty of crazy blasting of ki energy and enough Dragon Ball fan service to raise up your power lover for over 9000, but there's not a whole lot of innovation or terribly deep combat. One thing the game does have, however, is a good variety of different game modes. The main story mode is named Dragon History, and it takes you through a mess of battles made famous in all three Dragon Ball series and the movies. Dragon History mode loses the map that you have to navigate inbetween fights in the previous Budokai Tenkaichi 2, which helps streamline of the battles and keeps the action moving along.

You may consider many Dragon History bouts have been tackled in many previous games, some effort has been put into this mode to make one of a hell fresh fights. There are scripted moments within many of the battles. This triggers a new event of stor within the real fight, the results are usually in your current character flying out of the ring and an ally coming in to take over. Druing the match, you may hear multiple characters talking to advance in the storyline of the game. It's a little odd at first of course, you might get pissed with it, but it does a good job of replicating the feel of the anime.

The Dragon World Tour mode allows you to advance through a ranked tournament and the Ultimate Battle contains a few variants on the classic survival mode. One of the more interesting Ultimate Battle modes is being dubbed by Sim Dragon, which gives you ten turns to make your chosen fighter as strong as he or she can get. Each trun is completely menu-driven, and you can opt to train, explore, or rest your character. Making the proper decisions will boost or lower their stats and health. Once the ten days are up, you face off against an opponent with your current abilities. It's somewhat simple but it's an interesting twist on what is normally a fairly dry mode in fighting games.

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Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX 2 - sixth installment of Naruto Ninja Taisen

Here comes another installment for the very popular anime fighting game in Japan, Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX 2. This is the sixth installment of the Naruto Ninja Taisen series. This is the first Naruto Shippuden game to feature time-skip Sasuke Uchiha as a playable character. The game includes new characters, these are Sasuke Uchiha, Sai, Yamato, and the return of other characters that is Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya. Characters such as Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Choukji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara and Asuma Sarutobi will be returning in their time-skip forms.

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This game has two new features, "Danger Zones" and a seal function are included in the game. The first, "Danger Zones", are hazards on stages that can damage the players when encountered (for example, some spikes on cliff walls). The second feature includes a new hand seal mechanism, which can be used by the player to raise their character's attack power or health.

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution

Gameplay
Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution is an installment or expansion of the Clash of the Ninja series that is set to be released this October 2007. This game is the first Clash of Ninja game that is to be released on the Wii in English version, and is set to be a North American exclusive. D3 Publisher has promised that at least sixteen playable characters will be available to select in the game. Also in an interview, a representative has also stated that some characters not featured in Naruto: Clash of Ninja and Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 will be featured in the game. Clash of Ninja Revolution covers all the events of the Chunin Exams up to the end of the Search for Tsunade. Clash of Ninja Revolution will use the gameplay engine as Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX. The game utilizes the Nunchuk accessory for the Wii Remote, for basic attacts and for special attacts that require specific movements from both items. The classic controller and GameCube controller are also compatible to use with the game. This is definitely one of the awaited fighting games especially to those Naruto fans. Practice up on the previous Naruto fighting games to get ready to this upcoming released of Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution.



related games: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Victorious Boxers Revolution

Victorious Boxers: Revolution

Gameplay

A realistic boxing sports game that will absolutely knock you down. This game tends to take the advantage of the usage of Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Simply by acting like a professional boxer, perform some shadow boxing, and execute some boxing moves is the key to the game. The characters are based on the very popular manga anime in Japan, Hajime no Ippo. Victorious Boxers: Revolutions will be featuring a head ups display for the damage and time. To charge up special attacks, the damage meter is also used. Story mode, sparring mode, and a tutorial mode are the three different game modes available to select. Status of the player are shown in between the rounds, like number of punches that have landed.

In the game, initially there are only five available character, the other characters are needed to be unlocked by playing the story mode. There are a total of 25 playable character all in all. As usual, we have to finish the story mode over and over again until we unlock those 20 unlockable characters. Just like in other sports fighting games.



related games: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is an upcoming fighting game for Wii. It is the third installment of the Super Smash Bros. series. Brawl is the first Super Smash Bros. game that features at least one character from a franchise not owned by Nintendo with the inclusion of Solid Snake from Metal Gear. Super Smash Bros. Brawl is to be released on December 2007. This kind of game is very intriguing because they tried to match up different characters and they tend to compare each of them. I found them all unique and of course, not all characters are equal, meaning there is a character who is much stronger than the other character. So try to do some practice on every single one of them to know their abilities and techniques. Super Smash Bros. Brawl also setting a feature to an online access. Be sure to get it as it launches.

Gameplay

The game uses a battle system that is different from the average fighting game. Choosing from multiple unique characters, two to four players can fight on various stages, all while trying to knock opponents off the stage. Instead of using health bars, it features percentage meter. It starts at zero percent, and as character takes damage when hit. When the character is knocked off the stage, they lose either a life or a point depending on the game mode. The characters can attack each other with a variety of weapons, ranging from projectiles to melee weapons. Each item has different effects on the characters near it. Single items and crates and barrels, which often contain an assortment of items, fall onto the stage randomly in a battle.

Multiplayer games especially fighting games like this is fun to play with other players. With the quality of the game and uniqueness of the characters combined together will result to a good and happy experience of playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Invite your friends and enjoy yourselves to this fighting game that will surely leave lots of fun in each and everyone of you. Maybe some bruises if your friend doesn't understand the word 'sportsmanship'.




see also some news about Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
Smash Bros. Brawl goes Wireless!
David Hayter voicing Snake in Smash Bros. Brawl
Sonic in Smash Bros. Brawl?
Sonic Confirmed to Brawl Online

related games: Victorious Boxers Revolution, Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution