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Battle Arena Toshinden

Violence may not be a solution to the world's problems, but a brilliant beat-em-up like Battle Arena Toshinden is just too skull-bashingly satisfying to let sit around. Blame society.

At first, this is all very spectacular and impressive, but after a while you long for a bit of simple hand-to-hand violence, instead of people stabbing each other with 70-foot pikes and shooting exocet missiles from their arse. It's a bit too easy to hit people from miles away and the fireballs are relatively easy to set off, and a bit too effective. This might be just fine and dandy as far as you're concerned, but really they might just as well carry guns and be done with it. This is true to the original game, of course, but it still leaves something to be desired as a beat 'em up. If they'd just left it as a no-frills sword-fighting game, it would have been a lot better.

Selv uden en joypad, og med næsten 10 taster at holde styr på, morede jeg mig gevaldigt, hvilket siger en del om kvaliteten.

Im dünn besetzten Genre der 3D-Knochenbrecher für den PC schwirrt Toshinden jedenfalls souverän an die Spitzenposition. Besitzer einer Playstation-Konsole könnten höchstens rumfeixen, wieviel Hardware-Aufwand beim PC nötig ist, um ein Prügelspiel umzusetzen...

Overall, Toshinden PCT is a decent conversion of a pretty good console fighter. It's a 3D fighting game for your PC, which is a rarity, and, more than that, it's a fun and playable one, with well animated, well textured characters; but unless you're up for spending another $200 for a 3D board, don't go showing it off to your Sony-enamored friends. Of course, they don't get the secret PC only character (can anyone say "Earthworm?").

Battle Arena Toshinden macht wirklich Spaß - keine Frage. Allerdings muß es sich den Vergleich mit Virtua Fighter PC gefallen lassen. Ein Vergleich, dem kein Kampfsportspiel momentan standhält. Wer allerdings für Kampfsport zu begeistern ist, kommt auch an diesem Spiel nicht vorbei. Nur Einsteiger sollten sich vielleicht zunächst an einem anderen Produkt versuchen, schließlich ist die Steuerung eher gewöhnungsbedürftig.

Battle Arena Toshinden's one saving grace is that it's completely networkable, either through directly-networked computers or modem, so you can beat down people around the world. While the graphics and music to Battle Arena are great, actual play could be vastly improved.

Battle Arena Toshinden nie zachwyca. Ale pograć zawsze można, szczególnie, że cena jest dosyć atrakcyjna.