Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes

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Editorial Review
Who would win in a fight: the Incredible Hulk or Wolverine? What if Street Fighter's Ryu teamed up with Hulk, and Chun Li had Wolverine's back? Speculate no more as Marvel pits its comic book heroes against Capcom's video game stars in Marvel vs. Capcom.

All your favorite Marvel characters are available, each one a joy to play. The Hulk is huge, powerful, and slow, while Spider-Man leaps and web-slings around the arena, attacking with outrageous handsprings, flips, and lunging punches. Capcom's familiar Street Fighter heroes, as well as a few other heroes such as Mega Man, round out the character selection. Some of the lesser-known characters from both franchises make special appearances. It's pretty funny when Arthur from the old game Ghosts N' Goblins jumps onscreen to throw lances at Captain America. Each of the battles is a two-on-two tag-team match. Players can swap characters in the middle of a fight, and clever players quickly discover how to launch devastating double-team attacks on the opponent. Up to four people can play.

If Marvel vs. Capcom has a fault, it's super speed. The action is fast--really fast--and can quickly overwhelm a player who is used to the feint-and-strike gameplay of more sophisticated 3-D fighting games. In fact, gamer novices may be able to beat video game veterans by resorting to the old "randomly mash every button as fast as you can" trick. Aside from this, the game is a triumph in 2-D fighting. --Mike Fehlauer

Pros:

• Great cast of characters
• Tests superiority of superheroes
• Devastating tag-team moves
• Faithful hero animations

Cons:

• Cramped fighting space
• Difficult, hyper-speed gameplay

GameSpot Review
OK, let's bypass the intro to this review and make one thing perfectly clear. The gameplay score in this review is based on playing the game with Sega's arcade-style joystick, which is sold by Agetec here in the States. If this joystick didn't exist, and the only option was the standard Dreamcast controller, it's likely the gameplay would have gotten a lower score.

Marvel vs. Capcom is the latest incarnation of Capcom's Street Fighter vs. series. But here, instead of limiting the characters to X-Men or Street Fighters, Capcom has taken characters from all over the Marvel and Capcom universes. Marvel is represented by new additions like Venom and Onslaught, as well as fighting-game veterans like Spider-Man, Captain America, and Wolverine. Capcom's lineup includes Street Fighters Ryu, Chun Li, and Zangief, but also include non-fighting game characters like Captain Commando, Strider Hiryu, and Mega Man. The result is an ultimate (albeit a bit condensed) lineup of fighters from all over the place. This cross section of comic book heroes and video-game characters gives the game a truly new and diverse feel, even if the gameplay hasn't changed too much since the last Capcom vs. fighting game, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter.

The matches are still fought in typical tag-team fashion. You can swap between your two fighters at any time, letting one hop out and regain a little life. There are also team-up attacks, where both fighters hop out and do a super move together, resulting in big damage if the attack connects. New to Marvel vs. Capcom are helper attacks. After picking your two fighters, you're given a random helper character, whom you can call out for a quick attack a few times during the match with a quick press of both medium attack buttons. The helper characters are also taken from various places in the worlds of Marvel and Capcom. Some of the more notable characters include Marvel characters like Jubilee, Cyclops, and Colossus, while Capcom's helpers include Arthur from Ghosts N' Goblins, the Unknown Soldier from Forgotten Worlds, and Devilot of Cyberbots and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo fame. There is also a new team-up attack, which behaves a bit like Street Fighter Alpha 2's custom combos. When you execute the attack (which takes all three levels of your super meter), your backup character hops out, and you control both your characters at the same time. You have an infinite super meter while you're double teaming your opponent, so you can simply start the frenzy, then bust off supers as fast as you possibly can. There are also little differences in some of the returning characters. For instance, Ken and Akuma aren't in the game. Instead, you pick Ryu and change into a Ken or Akuma "mode," which changes the color of Ryu's suit and gives him all the moves of the character he's emulating. Similarly, Zangief can change into a robot version of himself, which can breathe fire, yet can't block.

The game has all the modes you've come to expect from a Capcom fighter, including the standard arcade, versus, survival, and training modes. However, there's one mode that really sticks out as being innovative in a "hey, why didn't they think of that sooner" sort of way. The cross-fever mode is a four-player mode that lets players one and three fight against players two and four. So when you tag out to your other fighter, your teammate takes control of the fight. This also comes into play during the custom combo-style attack, because each character is controlled by a different person.

Graphically, Marvel vs. Capcom looks terrific and once and for all proves that the Dreamcast can definitely do justice to 2D games. Even when all four characters are onscreen, filling the arena with projectiles while the background goes crazy, the game doesn't slow down a bit. The utter lack of load times (save for a short load before fighting Onslaught's second form) keeps the game moving along at a nice, brisk pace. The soundtrack, which comprises music from all sorts of different Capcom games (the Strider theme song, Mega Man music, and so on) is unmatched. The game's sound effects are also crystal clear and extremely well done. The copious use of stereo separation helps make the audio perfect.

While I wouldn't call Marvel vs. Capcom the most balanced fighting game in the world, it makes up for its shortcomings by simply being a whole lot of fun. After pumping out inferior vs. games for a few years now, Capcom has finally gotten it right. Marvel vs. Capcom is everything you'd expect from an over-the-top, ultra-flashy fighter, and then some. But do yourself a favor and pick up a few joysticks instead of punishing yourself with the inferior standard pad. The joysticks are definitely worth the extra money, and really give you the feeling of having the arcade machine in your home. --Jeff Gerstmann
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Fighting Game Ever, January 14, 2000

By A Customer

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This game is hours of fun to play. While playing the computer is endless amounts of fun, playing other players is amazing. To the novice player, it may seem that the game is based completely on screen filling super fire balls or attacks that are "cheap." The real fun of the game, however, is it takes a little bit of skill and a little bit of practice. If you could beat anyone at SF2 just using a combination of fireballs and uppercuts, you are out of luck. This game requires that the player blocks, uses his super moves and characters strategically, and takes full advantage of combos. Only weak players who get frustrated at a game they don't understand will find this game boring.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game is Great..!, January 30, 2000

By A Customer

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This game is extremely fun, the best aspect of this game is the Four player crossover mode, capcom did an outstanding job translating this game over onto the Dreamcast. If they would have made this game into a 3D fighting game they would have just screw'd up the whole game, and for all the people that say that it is impossible to play on a standard pad, dont listen to them..I have no problem using that pad, and neither do any of my friends..soo right now, for the money, that game is worth it..

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You can use ONSLAUGHT as a selectable character, July 25, 2003

By	Leo Williams (Cambria Heights, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are secret ways to unlock alternate versions of some of the characters, and even unlock Onslaught. You'll have to beat the game using certain techniques. In order to beat the game very easily, I personally found it best to use Ryu and Venom on Easy mode. Use them to beat the game multiple times and you'll be able to unlock all of the secret characters.

PROS:
1) The vibration feedback is extremely sensitive !!! You feel every bump and hit that you give your opponent.
2) There is an Easy mode, which strangely is not in MvC part 2. The Easy mode allows you to use Chun Li's lighting fast kicks.
3) There are a few super moves that are not in MvC part 2. Like Chun Li's has four supers in this game, while she has only three in part 2.

CONS:
1) There is a little slow-down with a few characters like War Machine and Strider. These characters move a lot faster in MvC part 2.
2) You can not select the same person twice. In MvC part 2, you are allowed to select the same person so you may have a team of three Akumas or whomever else.

Overall, it's a great game, and I urge you to buy it even if you already own MvC part 2. I own both games and love them equally.