Zork Reviews: Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter (Saturn)

[Zork]

I have to say, I'm quite the fighting game nut. I have a particular fondness for Capcom games and Virtua Fighter mainly though. When I first played one of these Marvel VS games it was Marvel vs Capcom 2, I thought it was amazing. As time went by though I had found out that there were other ones that I didn't know about. Eventually I got to buy a few of them and play them.

Presentation

The game has that very typical yet welcomed Capcom Arcade aesthetic applied to it. The game looks and feels like an Arcade game, as it should…because it is one. Although as this is on the Saturn it feels natural unlike the Playstation version with it’s butchered gameplay, cut animations and sluggish load times. The game also has the obligatory options like adjusting speeds, difficulty and other things.

Score: 9 - Awesome


Gameplay

I feel that this game had reached the pinnicle of the VS Series gameplay in terms of balance. There weren’t any weird gems that would give you strange powers although I do like the concept in Marvel Super Heroes, there aren’t any random Assist Characters, and the roster isn’t horribly skewed to where the game will only really revolve around a handful of characters like in Marvel vs Capcom 2 at high level play, nearly every character is useful somehow. This game is just straight up tag Team Fighting like X-Men vs Street Fighter except with a better roster in my opinion.

Score: 10 – Amazing


Graphics

These graphics are still great in my view, with the fluid eye popping animation and vibrant colors…nothing really beats Capcom’s 32-Bit Sprites. A lot of the backgrounds in this game are also very colorful and active which I thought was great because sometimes in the earlier games no matter what series it seemed to be, the backgrounds were almost always usually pretty dull looking or inactive. This wasn’t quite the case in the VS Series but there were still a few backgrounds in certain games that weren’t all that impressive.

Score: 9 – Awesome


Sound

This game’s sound effects like most other Capcom games are top notch as usual. No complaints here. The Soundtrack however is very good, it’s one of personal favorites due to the remixes of Street Fighter character themes and they go well together with the Marvel themes which are usually very catchy or blood pumping.

Score: 9 – Awesome


Replay

This game will have plenty of shelf life if you have friends to play with, as do all good fighting games. This one may be picked as a personal favorite by your group though if you play it enough and like it due to the nice roster and less gimmicky fighting.


Score: 8 – Great


Overview

Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter is one of the strongest entries in the VS Series I think. It has all the right elements to create an instant classic that will be remembered for a long time due to it’s great roster, great graphics, memorable soundtrack and good times to be had playing with friends. I highly recommend this if you have a Saturn and a 4 In 1 Cart.


Score: 9.3 - Awesome

Here are some clips courtesy of me.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/user ... 82832.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/user ... 82636.html

[IcKy99]

THEE BEST FIGHTER ON THE SATURN hands down, one of my favorite fighters of all time

[marurun]

I have owned this fighter for many years and love it. Part of me says "I like the X-Men vs roster better", except that the Marvel vs roster plays better. There are some challenging characters to learn to use, though. It's a little less approachable that way.

[marurun]

Also, some advice for doing video capture. It may reduce the quality some, but if you are using a straight composite video connection, try getting an RCA splitter (Y-shaped, usually) and connecting to both the capture card and a TV. That way you can see what's going on on the TV in perfect real-time and record off to the side. Video quality will probably be reduced, but it might make it easier to capture.

[Zork]

Also, some advice for doing video capture. It may reduce the quality some, but if you are using a straight composite video connection, try getting an RCA splitter (Y-shaped, usually) and connecting to both the capture card and a TV. That way you can see what's going on on the TV in perfect real-time and record off to the side. Video quality will probably be reduced, but it might make it easier to capture.

Thanks for the tips Marurun. I captured those movies a year ago but I'm not capturing anymore because my computer is a piece of trash and I need to upgrade it. It just can't handle capturing footage, I got lucky to get that.

Also thanks everyone for the comments, I'll probably post more reviews later on in the future.

[marurun]

Is your capture card a PCI card or a USB dongle thingie?

[Zork]

Is your capture card a PCI card or a USB dongle thingie?

USB Dongle thing.