Zombie Revenge is Jason X in video game form. Sure, there’s no single, hulking space-murderer, but SEGA’s Dreamcast-era title features a ridiculous plot (The U.S. government attempting to animate corpses as military super soldiers–WTF!), voice acting that rivals Resident Evil’s “quality,” and, thankfully, numerous ways to turn the lumbering masses into quivering pulp. It’s a joke of a game–in the best way possible.
2D-X Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey L. Wilson chats with Klei Entertainment CEO Jamie Cheng to discuss the follow up to one of 2010′s best games. What’s new for our vengeance-filled anti-hero?
Final Fight ranks up there with Double Dragon and Renegade as the early standouts of the beat ‘em up genre. It controls well, looks good, and features decent music. It may no longer hold its swagger in a post-Streets of Rage II world, but those that fondly remember pumping quarters in this sucker, or enjoy its simplicity, will find the $2.99 Final Fight a worthy iPhone game.
Capcom expanded its iOS catalog today by releasing Final Fight and Street Fighter II Collection, as well as updating Street Fighter IV: Volt.
Awesomenauts features the most awesome mercenaries in the galaxy in their fight for territorial supremacy.
Mega Man 10 wasn’t the only hot retro game that Capcom had on display at CES 2010. Final Fight: Double Impact, the upcoming downloadable twin pack featuring the arcade version of Final Fight and the massively underrated Magic Sword, was also available for play within the company’s spacious Planet Hollywood suite. We’ve already discussed some [...]
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s the future of the Final Fight franchise. Cody and Guy are back! Not in Final Fight, but in Super Street Fighter IV. That’s not a slight on Super Street Fighter [...]
Dungeon Fighter Online, a free online game, has been in open beta or a number of weeks now, which has given MMO fans the chance to thoroughly sample the gameplay – – and I’ve been amongst them. Unlike other reviewable games that are more or less fixed when presented to the public, Dungeon Fighter Online‘s [...]
Traditionally, beat ‘em ups have represented the most basic of video game storytelling and gameplay mechanics. Three of the most beloved and respected games in the genre – – Double Dragon, Final Fight, and River City Ransom – – feature protagonists on vengeful missions to rescue their kidnapped girlfriend from goons. It’s hardly the most [...]
Anyone with a passing familiarity with The Warriors knows that it’s prime fodder for conversion into a decent video game. The cult movie centers on a rough and tumble Brooklyn street gang that’s framed for the murder of Cyrus, the most gangsta of gangstas, who holds an uptown meeting in Van Cortland Park in an [...]
