Virtua Fighter 5 Online for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

I would like to preface this review by saying that I am a Tekken fan. Thought that should be known since I may carry some bias in this review.

I am somewhat surprised to see what I believe to be a negative reaction to this game, but I can somewhat understand. The game takes time to learn and fully appreciate and that is not something that many gamers want to do with a fighting game.

Each fighter has a strength and a weakness. Each fighter also has a different degree of difficulty in learning. Sarah Bryant was easy for me to learn. She had a quick style with some devastating combos that were not that difficult. Where-as Akira has been extremely difficult to learn. Some of his combos can be extremely difficult to pull off, however they are much more devastating to an opponent than the quick combos of Sarah Bryant.

The fighting is very smooth and the control configuration works well, especially with the multi-button moves.

The quest mode is an interesting modification from the last title and is one of the features that sells me on this game as a single player game.

However the best part of the game is the online feature. Testing your skills against those that are just as good. This part of the game is so addicting.

Now to the more frustrating parts of the game. As with every fighting game the end boss is a nightmare to fight. Dural seems to know every move you do before you do it. She also juggles well. I didn't mark down for this because every fighting game has this problem.

What I did mark this game down for was the lack of story and this has frustrated me with every Virtua Fighter. Where is the ending? You work your butt off beating an impossible boss and what are you rewarded with? Credits...thanks guys...thanks. One of the reasons I prefer Tekken over Virtua Fighter.

All in all I think this is the best fighting game on XBox 360 so far. It is a solid title and gets better as you play it more.