This blocky, horrendous-looking fighter comes to life when you pick up the controller.

User Rating: 8 | Virtua Fighter SAT
By E-123Wario54 | Review Date:
Comparing Virtua Figher to other fighting games of the time, graphics-wise, is senseless; there is no competition. Virtua Fighter, although getting the achievement of first 3D fighting game, looks like a bunch of polygonal figures moving around, trying to get a hit in. Though the graphics itself are blocky, the actual gameplay is nowhere near that. Virtua Fighter has a ton of flaws, but prevails to be a worthy fighter for your Saturn collection.

Pros:
- The controls just fit. I can't say this about other versions, but the Saturn version gives you a comfortable experience between controls and actions. There is no need to make use of the unnecessary shoulder buttons.
-Though Virtua Fighter has its fair share of ripping-off some characters from the Street Fighter franchise (Akira Yuki is Ryu, Jacky Bryant is Ken, Sarah Bryant is Cammy, Pai Chan is Chun-Li, etc., etc.) each character has some originality. At least VF separates each character in the game from one another. Each character has a different fighting style. I preferred Wolf Hawkfield over the overly-cliched Akira Yuki (wrestling FTW), since I like to watch wrestling a bit. I like to compare Wolf Hawkfield to John Cena, but that's just me. =P
-The art of the moves is something any fighting fan will appreciate. The moves used are all real moves, equivalent to their fighting styles. Again, I'm a fan of wrestling, so I could tell that these moves weren't just made up--the viewpoint of it all is just real. No magical fireballs here, folks (hadouken!).

Cons:
-Horrible backgrounds make the game look like it wasn't much of an effort. Backgrounds aren't usually supposed to annoy me in fighting games, but VF goes way over the top with that. It's simply a few bright colors put together.
-The designing is much too simple. Put together with the backgrounds, it's just not that good.
-The characters are so polygonal they look like robots. Maybe if a little more work was put into it, and if Sega put a little more focus into working on finishing touches instead of getting it out there quickly for a 3D marketing approach, it would have been much better.

Virtua Fighter is something any fighting fan can appreciate. Though the graphics were overall too simple for the time, the actual fighting style makes this game an easy-pleaser. It takes a while to find which character you really like to fight with, but in the end, you'll know when you're kicking @$$: it was all worth it.

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