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Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game. I own VF4, and getting this improved version was worth it. At less than $20, this is the best fighting game you can buy, especially if you don't own the first installment. The addition of Goh and Brad was nice. They resemble actual mixed martial artists. The graphics is improved, and the old characters have more moves at their disposal. I should warn first timers, however, that this game is more geared for the genre specialists, and is not a game that can be mastered by mashing buttons. I guess the same can be said about Soul Calibur 2, but it is more true for VF4:Evolution. The new quest mode allows you to play against simulations of human players as you go from one arcade to the next by beating each tournament. This mode improved me as a player because I do better against real players now. Not that this should be an important part of anyone's life, but if you have a considerable time to waste on a fighting game, this is it. And the detailed tutorials are excellent. I'll never need a strategy guide. I like this game much better than Soul Calibur 2, but it's all a matter of taste.

You can play dress up, as you would with Barbie dolls

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is very addictive because it offers hundreds of ways to customize each character. You are able to change the color of the clothing, and add accessories. Accessories such as gold chains, sunglasses, boxing gloves, etc. You can even add new hairstyles. Like giving Jeffery a funny looking fuzzy afro, or giving Sarah long (goldie-locks) curly hair.

You can change the screen names too. Whatever you choose to type in, will appear at the top of the screen. Like typing in "King of Pimps" for a male character, or typing in "Sexy Lips" for a female characters.

The game's new Quest mode is a great diversion from Arcade mode. When you don't feel like playing 7 matches which always lead up to the boss fight, you can enter Quest mode instead. In Quest, you will have to meet certain requirements in order to earn points (money) which you'll need to buy the customizations.

Lastly, even the Training mode for this game is addictive! You can practice specific moves, in specific combat situations. There is even a slow motion option which helps you to perfect some of the more cumbersome combos. Although slow motion is NOT selectable for the other modes (Quest and Arcade), it looks extremely cool to beat up the training character in slow motion.

Games should be fun not frustrating.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great, so is the sound. This game has plenty of depth, as a matter of fact too much depth. A game should be fun this game is frustrating (and I've got through quest mode with two of the characters). The level of difficulty for some of the characters in quest mode is orders of magnitude more than it is for others. With previous Virtua Fighter games (pre VF4) I could beat the machine relably after roughly a month of play. I'm not even close here. I will never be close. The game designers have crossed a boundry of difficulty that makes this the least fun of any of the virtua fighter games. Pure Frustration. I prefer the balanced characters of the Tekken series to these unbalanced characters for player vs mode, and I prefer a game that is halfway reasonable to win, this game has unbalanced characters, unreasonable difficuly and super repetitive play. I can see why people new to the game would rate it as highly as they did, but if I want blatant frustration I can go to work.

PS2: there is Tekken, Soul Calibur 2 and Virtua Fighter...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

...and you really can't compare them. Tekken has much more developed characters considering both personality and moves than other two and Soul Calibur is 3D oriented, not side stepping 2D game which Tekken 4 and VF 4 are.

Imagine Tekken 4 done in Soul Calibur speed and with simpler combos and no tenstrings. That is VF4 EVO: it has speed of Soul Calibur, simple combos and complicated heavy attacks and it has quest mode, too. Some fighters are Tekken lookalikes and there is sidestepping, but unfortunately there is only one sidestep attack, G+P+K.

The thing I like about game is quest mode which gives you different tasks, but when you reach arcade no. 3 or 4, can't remember, tasks become too long. There are lotsa combos, but you have to know BOTH your character in deep and CPU character in arcade mode to win. Game is quicker than, say, Tekken 3 so countering moves is complicated. Heavy attack grapples and strikes require lightning fast fingers and some characters are just too slow in that department...and yeah, Akira's doble flying kick takes out anyone...or I am too old for this :)

Buy! 20 dollars is nothing considering satisfaction game gives you!

evolution defined in the ps form.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

vf 4 was fun but after having a look at the graphics
of vf4e some how i had to buy the japanese release(japan version)
yes it's available in japan.
it supports progressive scan with the help of "ar2" and then
it's a money worth game for high end tv owners and even if you
have svideo the graphics is as good as well made rpg games.
the playing is not different from version 4 but several chracters
added and more just trust me it's a whole new breed of vf.

Virtua Fighter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really love this game just because of the original virtua fighter they put in the options. It is my dream come true that they put the original virtua fighter with better graphics for the playstation 2. I reccommend renting this game because I think Virtua Fighter 4 is better then this. They kind of messed up the stages in this. But I shouldnt say anything negative about this game because it has made my wish come true.

Zen and the art of Virtua Fighter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I didn't really know where I could post a review for this game, but Amazon seems like a good enough place for now. I don't really want to recap all of the features, or talk about the steep learning curve, I just want to state that this is an amazingly deep game. This game is so good that I bought a playstation 2 just to play it. Is this game worth $20, $50, $100, $200? Absolutely. Just buy it. If you don't love it right away, play it until you do.

Mind Blowing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Though it was released a year and a half ago, Virtua Fighter 4 remains the overall best fighting game currently available on any platform. Actually, technically, it isn't--that honor now belongs to Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution, a suitably impressive follow-up to last year's game. VF4: Evolution is part of Sony's $... "Greatest Hits" collection right out the gate, presumably due to the success of last year's game, but it isn't just a rerelease for those who might have missed out on VF4. This highly technical, complex yet accessible, genuinely entertaining fighting game should belong to anyone with any interest in the genre.

The most obvious difference between VF4: Evolution and its predecessor is that the newer version features two brand-new characters, for a total of 15 different selectable fighters. The newcomers are Brad Burns, a thuggish kickboxer, and Goh Hinogami, a freaky-looking judo fighter. Brad and Goh actually seem a little out of place among Virtua Fighter 4's fairly straightforward but now-classic cast of characters, such as Japanese martial arts master Akira and professional wrestler Wolf. In fact, the new fighters in VF4: Evolution would certainly look more at home among the exaggerated lineup of Namco's Tekken series than they do in the ranks of the relatively understated Virtua Fighter cast. Clearly, then, these characters are intended to spice up Virtua Fighter a little, since for better or worse the series has never been as over-the-top as other fighting games. Purists might not be thrilled by the new character designs and the attempt to give Virtua Fighter more of an edge, but be that as it may, these are a couple of interesting and distinct new fighters. Brad can dodge, weave, and sway to avoid his foe's strikes and then counterattack with his own devastating punches and kicks, and Goh can use a variety of takedowns, grappling moves, and submission holds to overpower his opponent.

These two join the entire returning cast of VF4. The older characters, including Shaolin monk Lei Fei and shoot fighter Vanessa who made their first appearances in last year's game, have some new moves this time around to expand their already huge arsenals of punches, kicks, counters, reversals, evasive moves, throws, and more. The controls are perfectly intact--you still move your fighter around using the directional pad and attack and defend using the punch, kick, and guard buttons (and various combinations of these). Three buttons may not sound like a lot to work with, but in fact they are used for literally hundreds of different moves. Most moves in the game aren't difficult to execute (though some, such as a few of Akira's, are incredibly challenging to pull off), but learning how and when to best use them can take days, weeks, or months, easily. Much of this knowledge naturally comes from practice, and as your skills improve, you'll likely just grow to appreciate the game more and more. It's no exaggeration to call VF4: Evolution's gameplay incredibly deep.

Fun at first...annoying later!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game at first, but as you get further the opponents become just impossible to beat. The opponents always do alot of guarding that you hardly land a hit. It's also difficult to get rewards. I mean, you do a lot of fighting, you smash your controller til you break it, then if you win you don't get enough to buy the ridiculously expensive items. This game has good graphics though. Fun only if you play against a friend, otherwise it's just torture. Don't spend more than $5 for this game!

Pathetic Excuse to call a fighting game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: November 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am so disappointed not only on Virtua Fighter 4, but now even on this piece of waste. The graphics have improved alot, but Tekken 4 still has graphics far beyond better than thos game.
Why does it take time to get off the ground? The game should have fast gameplay to get right off the ground.
It as a mistake to make this game. I think now Virtua Fighter 5 will be even worse because Sega may be running out of ideas. With everything Sega used to make this game, they should have saved for Virtua Fighter 5.

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