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How to Play Virtua Fighter 2

Here is the default control layout for Virtua Fighter 2 in the RetroPlayers.Club Player. Open Controller Mapping in the app to reassign anything to your own keys or gamepad.

The Story Behind Virtua Fighter 2

This version was also released in the Sega Ages 2500 series. Each of the eleven discs (one for each playable character) contains a slideshow of high-resolution CG stills of the character engaged in non-fighting activities such as playing pool or eating ice cream, backed by a Japanese pop song, as well as a karaoke mode. A port of the arcade version was released digitally for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in November 2012.

In addition, Virtua Fighter 2 was converted for the PlayStation 2 in 2004 as part of Sega's Ages 2500 series in Japan. The Saturn port was scheduled for a December 1995 release in Europe, in time for the crucial Christmas shopping season, but it did not appear until the end of the following January. The original arcade game released for the Japanese market in November 1994.

What You'll Play

In addition, the entire roster of characters shares certain moves and functions; for instance, every character has a basic throw that can be executed by pressing the guard and punch buttons simultaneously. Each character has many unique moves; however, like in the original Virtua Fighter, many characters share many moves with another character (for instance, Lau Chan and Pai Chan each practice similar forms of Kung Fu). Each character has their fighting style, loosely based on various real-world fighting methods, such as wrestling or eastern styles.

The number and variety of attacks possessed by each character have also been expanded, including counter-attacks and the ability to prevent throws (with rapid reactions required on the player's part). Virtua Fighter 2 is a 3D 1v1 fighting game, similar in concept to other games of the series. All nine characters from the original Virtua Fighter are once again playable in Virtua Fighter 2.

Why It Still Hits

Due to unexpectedly slow progress in the Daytona USA port, many members of the Virtua Fighter 2 team were reassigned to Daytona USA. The AM2 team also used data from Virtua Fighter Remix as a reference for some elements. Due to the amount of moves in Virtua Fighter 2, months had to be spent on developing compression techniques to fit everything into the console's memory.

In the United States, the game also generated high earnings upon release, and went on to become one of the top ten best-selling arcade video games in the country in 1995. , over 40,000 arcade units were sold worldwide. Computer and Video Games gave the arcade game a positive review, praising the "stunning visuals" as "quite possibly the best graphics ever seen in a fully-playable arcade title", the "quality of the animation" where "you can certainly feel each blow when they connect and the character reels back" and the "more accessible" combos which "opens up the opportunity for a number of new sequences." The magazine later called it "the greatest arcade game ever made" in December 1995. To increase confidence in the accuracy of the port, they displayed non-playable demos of the characters Lion, Shun, Pai, and Lau running on the Saturn hardware at 60 FPS - the same speed as the arcade version.

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