Marvel vs capcom
Review by : Crazy Review
Format : PSX
Type : Beat em up
Players : 1 - 2
Most people have heard of Ryu, Chun li and co from capcom's Street fighter legacy. Even more people know Sipderman and what he does, but its unlikely that you'll appreciate the resurgence of Capcom heros like the cool Captain Commando.
This arcade port only has a cut-down tag-team option - to get all the character animations into the playstations memory, you can only play a tag-team bout against the computer that has the same characters as you. With this operation though, hitting both hard kick and hard punch makes your fighters jump on and off the screen in a violent 'tag, you're it' display. It's fun for a bit but there's no progression after wining your fight. In the arcade mode it doesn't take long to get to the boss, Onslaught, who's amazingly realised from the comics, but absolutely terrible once he's in action. the best thing going for Marvel Vs Capcom is the luscious graphics. Granted, it's flat and 2D, but the artistic lines of these cartoon characters create far more character in the fighters faces than possible to produce in a 3D polygon figure, no matter how well rendered. Think about watching spiderman and venom duking it out to your control, rather than watching the lame patticake exchange in the cartoon series, and you realise thats it's marvellous fun.
The controls are responsive, moves are executed swiftly and the animation's smooth. There's very occasional slow-down if you're finishing off your enemy with a mad super special. Super special are dazzling, and with the comic book element, quite outlandish too. Speedier than Marel Vs Street Fighter, and with more endearing characters, this is the best of the series so far.
Sound : Quite good
7/10
Gameplay : Good responsive controls but no real progression
6/10
Difficulty : Lush cartoon makes this lovely to look at
8/10
Graphics : Quite easy and wont last long
6/10
7.5/10
Overall : A good fun beat em up but way too easy
Review by : Crazy Review