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Great Fighting Game for all!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rival Schools:United by Fate is a great fighting game!
It's different from the usual(and boring) Street Fighter or X-men fighting games. The graphics are great and each character has his/her own unique fighting ability. Also, not only are the team-up specials amazing, they're various! They depends on the secondary player. It's not like those Street Fighter games where almost all the moves are similar. And there are lots of secret characters to choose from. A great fighting game I recomend strongly!

An excellent example of a 3-d fighter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Rival Schools rivals almost any of the 3-d fighters out there. Aside from the mighty Tekken series this game is second to none. The team mode is an excellent and entertaining extra that adds a little originality to the sometimes unoriginal fighting genre. A great buy indeed.

Tekken3 meets Marvel v Capcom and lots of laughs ahead

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. One of the best I've played, ever. The graphics are great (almost as good as tekken), the concept is funny- school children and teachers fighting to save their school from some evil gang- and the gameplay is *excellent*. I would not and cannot tire of Rival Schools b/c it's perfect.

It's a fast-paced semi-3D fighting game. The perspective is mostly side to side, and during the fighting one has the ablity to strafe quickly forward and backward (and sneak behind the opponent), like the SoulBlade and SoulCaliber games. There are plenty of characters to choose from, and in each fight one chooses two characters and swaps them out. They also have a team-up option, which is many times very entertaining.

The cool things that differentiate this game from the others are as follows: the fun diversity of personality and style in the characters and their special abilities/combos, the playfulness of the game, and the ability to intercept attacks and reverse them by exploiting the opponent's latency. Upon blocking, a small diamond appears allowing you to counterstrike... Of course, you aren't guaranteed that the opponent won't use the same counterattack against you... Sometimes you have a fight wherein the two fighters will counterstrike each other's special moves back and forth five times. It's really amazing, and it makes the game more fair.

You also have the ability to pound your opponent in the air several times, a technique that is taught to you by the gym teacher Hayato in a special (and extremely helpful) training mode.

I can't say enough about this game, it's fun and addictive. No one can look at this game and say, oh it's just another fighting game, like so many others. Get it and play it you won't be disappointed.

Future of Capcom

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game thinking I would not like it at all.Boy was I wrong I like the evoloution disk better than the arcade disk.The evoloution disk has 14 hidden charcters and hidden extras such as a home run derby,shoot out mode,and more.If you like fighting games than should at least rent it.

The new school fighting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Rival schools is the greatest 3d fighting game along with Project Justice. Both games involes the schools around Japan. It has something that Marvel V.S Capcom has. Team ups, well not using D hyper combos. But has great animation witch this one looks blocky and cartoon feeling so buy this game and learn some new school moves.

A cool fighting game to look for!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well after playing Rival Schools, I have something really good to say about this game. The game is fun and cool. It is pretty easy to learn the characters' moves and rally makes you feel good after you do a super move or a team up attack!

I love the game and I will never get tiered of this game! With all the miny games and all the characters to choose from you can really enjoy this game, and I mean really!

Although the characters' moves are based on Street Fighter and Sakura is in the game, the characters' personalities are prety original.

If you are looking for a good fighting game, Rival Schools is on game to keep in mind!

I never played a game like it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THis game is just the most realistic game i have ever played. Why the heck is it realistic you ask? Because in a fight you can call for others to help you, get your health back, and still have it be a fair fight. The character design is awesome. The stages are fantastic too. And don't forget the music.

cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

bad graphics but okey every thing else. I like the school theme. nothing wild and new. nothing wonderful about it. kinda fun. go buy tekken 3.

THE. BEST. GAME. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best game ever to exist on the face of this earth.

First off you got the basic disc, the Arcade version. This is the arcade-perfect translation straight to the Playstation. Here, go head to head in Arcade and Vs. modes, or take the Training mode to familiarize yourself with the true genius that is Rival Schools: United By Fate. This particular disc, being arcade-perfect and stuff, is where you can unlock all the loading artwork and endings for your viewing pleasure.

Then, you have the Evolution disc. When you get sick of just playing Rival Schools by itself, play it with a few twists. Every time you beat this, you get a rather kawaii bonus character...repeat process 24 times and you have 24 kawaii bonus characters. They do all look the same, but have different movesets, which consist of moves from other characters. For example, Koji has Roberto's soccer-ball kick move, Tiffany's jumping kick move, and I can't remember all what else. One of these bonus characters (Eri, to be more precise) even has Zangief's spinning piledriver and Final Atomic Buster from the Street Fighter games. And while you're getting your Rival School Spirit on, kicking the game's hind parts time after time, you get cute little bonus minigames, like a homerun contest, volleyball target practice, and the soccer minigame. Oh yeah...and it was either the arcade or evolution disc, not sure which, that had Tournament and League modes. This game is better than Street Fighter 3. This is the best game ever made, the best game ever to grace the universe, THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND ALWAYS WILL BE. I remember back in the day doing INSANE combos with Shoma...I'd give anything to play this game again.

Next to Soul Caliber 2 in Greatest fighting game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is just pure fun for anyone who enjoys a good fighting game. And unlike other fighting games, it doesn't get boring after like 2 fights. With many different modes of play, lots of extras, mini games, characters, attacks, and battle stages, this game is highly addictive.

Team up with a second player to begin a fight in any mode of play. Activate your characters special moves, fury moves, team attacks, throws, and even taunts. (Yea! Sakura! ...my favorite character)

The training mode is awesome, giving you many lessons to teach you each and every tactic of the game, and then combining them into a test. Where as other fighting games give you a stationary opponet, and expect you to learn everything with no directions at all.

Great buy for any gamer.

Coolest characters: Sakura, Shoma, Natsu, Roy, Akira, and Roberto.

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