Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 comes to Playstation Vita! Find out what to expect…
There was one thing I saw a lot of at CES this year. A whole lot of Street Fighter IV. A company called Aiwi used it to demonstrate an app that controls the game with motion sensing. It worked… kind of. It worked very poorly for me, but the booth’s attendant had a good handle on it. Plantronics used it to demo one of its headsets as well.
Now, two instances of Street Fighter IV is a coincidence. Three’s a pattern.
Some games flourish on multiple platforms. Some should stay on console. Take Street Fighter IV, a complicated, rich 2D fighting game that requires precise control and tactile feedback to pull off complicated combos and attacks. A game like that begs for a gamepad or ideally, a fight stick, yet it still finds its way on platforms that have no business hosting this kind of experience.
Fast forward to the present and everything old in video gaming in new again. Instead of arcades we have online play. Instead of local in-house tournaments, we have EVO. And developers such as Capcom have simplified complex inputs to make them more mainstream-friendly. The video game industry itself has created an environment conducive for the return of fighting games.
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Fans felt a bit betrayed by Capcom when it seemingly abandoned one of the most anticipated games in fighting game history, but Capcom has come to show that fan service is something it definitely excels at and it does it well. For a title that came out only a few months after the original, Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 is not just assorted DLC. With all the new features and new characters included on the disc, this game is a definite steal.
