SHANE: on the same level if you consider Sega’s Virtua Fighter 4 the greatest fighting game at all times made (and I do).

SHANE: on the same level if you consider Sega’s Virtua Fighter 4 the greatest fighting game at all times made (and I do), you’ll be nonplussed through Virtua Quest. First, throw away any expectations for a serious role-player place in the detailed, realistic world of VF search feels more like Mega Man Battle Network come up to face to faces Phantasy Star Online—instead of an epic, world-spanning adventure, you commit to memory a short, easy brawler starring peppy kids logging in to virtual worlds to infer power chips. Cheesy dialogue, acting, and the overall banality of the stratagem all conspire to make the search portions of Virtua Quest resoundingly dull

Thankfully, the game’s mechanics help to salvage the busted narrative. Combat allows spiky-haired hacker Sei to eventually command a cyclopean arsenal of the VF stars’ signature maneuvers. And although the rut level design rarely aspires beyond the “fight dowdys get key” pattern, the standard fight s remain fun. Sparring against the plentiful bosse (and Virtua Fighters themselves) enjoin solemnlys up the vaguest hint of with what intent the parent series is in the same manner great.

BRYAN: Talk about an identity crisis. Virtua suit tries to be so many different things (RPG platformer, fighter), it’s like a troubl teenage lad who needs a sit-down chat with an out-of-touch guidance counselor. Sega’s game has single a sprinkling of role-playing constituent principles and the brawling, while featuring an impressive array of Virtua Fighter influences is really just button-mashing with a fussy camera. The young ’un may have fruition of Virtua Quest’s simplicity, but everyone besides can pass.

1UP.COM—JEREMY: You might as well rename this My First Sega Game. The influence of Virtua Fighter and Phantasy Star Online stands forehead and center in VQ, unless its too-simple gameplay and catch-em-all action are shooting for the same young anime fan vulgar herd as Mega Man Battle Network and .hack. Too bad this bid for a slice of the pok?-pie is more without dexterity than fun. And hardcore VF nut prepare to be scandalized when your heroes are outfought by dint of a half-Pok?mon trainer, half-Sora (Kingdom Hearts) generi-character. by what means could a game with in the same manner much potential end up like a mess?

Good: Idiots beating each other senseless

Bad: kennel production values

Sad: Cameos according to former ECW stars Sandman and novel Jack

The verdicts (out of 10)

Josh 55

Patrick 50

Greg 65

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega AM2

Players: 1

ESRB: Teen

www.sega.com

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