I selected Ryu and Captain America for familiarity’s sake and chose Chris Redfield as my new recruit. Playing on an official Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arcade stick, I was able to leap into the action easily. Ryu and Cap’s moves, far as I could tell before I desperately started button-mashing, are similar to their Marvel vs. Capcom 1 and 2 counterparts. Quarter-circle punches, quarter-circle backwards kicks, they’re all there. Special moves are executed in a similar manner to previous games, as well as calling in your partner for quick mix-up attacks. This is a new Marvel vs. Capcom game all right, with a sleek new artstyle that looks great up close and in motion. Despite wearing headphones I could barely hear the music, so there’s no telling whether MvC2‘s funky jazz soundtrack will return. I suppose I could settle for character-specific theme music.

Voice adds depth to a character that would otherwise be just sprites or polygons. There are plenty of characters with excellent voices, but only the five best made this list.

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, the latest in Capcom’s wacky-yet-honored Vs. series, arrives as the perfect palette cleanser between installments of the chess-like, rage-inducing Street Fighter IV. A terrific blend of fun and skill, giant robots, science ninja teams and war photographers duke it out in one of the Wii’s finest brawler since Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 has stood the test of time by being a tournament-worthy title to many fighting game fans, despite it’s utterly broken nature and uninspired Storm-Magneto-Sentinel teams that “teh proz” so adamantly select. For me, it’s always been one of the “WTF” games, not necessarily for the gameplay (granted, that does play a [...]