X-Men vs. Street Fighter

X-Men vs Street Fighter was a needed Optic Blast in the rear end of the fighting game world. Street Fighter clones were everywhere and the shock value of Mortal Kombat had worn off. Capcom blew a breath of fresh air into what at the time was a stagnant genre. This game by all accounts is to date one of the greatest fighting games ever made.

This unbelievable arcade port is a MUST-OWN Saturn fighting game. If you've been wondering what reasons there are to own a Saturn, here's the only one you'll need this year!

Overall, this game is a magnificent translation. Someone over at Capcom must really love us. However, seeing this, it brings hope to this SF fan’s heart that an arcade perfect Vampire Savior and an arcade perfect MSH v. SF can’t be too far away.

X-Men versus Street Fighter est un titre incontournable de la Saturn. Vendu avec la RAM il inaugurait le début d'une grande série de cross-over. Il restera culte comme ayant été le premier jeu du genre, et comme ayant été le jeu où Ryu et Ken faisaient leur Shinku-Hadoken côte à côte, où les deux héros ayant combattu ensemble devaient s'affronter à la fin du jeu. Le contenu est ultra réduit, mais on peut quand même jouer seul ou à deux, et là tout est dit. Sa réalisation quant à elle est ce qui se fait de mieux en la matière sur Saturn. Un jeu qu'on ne se lasse jamais de remettre dans sa console pour quelques séances de combats et de combos enragés.

The graphics are some of the best yet seen in a SF title with brilliant colors and background animation. There are also lots of special effects and explosions to round out the mix. The graphics aren't perfect and surely could have benefited from more RAM in the Playstation, but they definitely don't suck either! I know a lot of people keep asking why Capcom continues to put out this style of 2-D fighting game. Well, all I can say is that someone out there (actually lot's of "someone's") must be buying and enjoying these games or Capcom certainly wouldn't be putting the development time or licensing fees into making these fighters. I for one am glad they do, it's a nice change of pace form the poly fighters and allow you to employ a completely different fighting strategy. Now I just wonder if they can make a Street Fighter vs. Star Gladiators...Sprite vs. polygon... now that would be something!

This game is considerably better than it's PlayStation counterpart, I might add. With, or without, the use of the RAM cartridge Street Fighter Alpha 2 shines with much more animation and detail than you'd expect. The game is nearly arcade perfect, and with single screen shots, it's almost impossible to tell. The Saturn control also features six buttons across, a God send to the Street Fighter-philes. If you have the first game, this is a bit difficult to recommend, but if you're a die hard Street Fighter fan there's no reason you shouldn't already have this game!

X-Men V.S. Street Fighter is geen voltreffer maar ook zeker geen losse flodder. Het is een leuke afwisseling om met fighters uit verschillende 'kampen' te strijden. De gedateerde graphics nemen we dan maar voor lief.

X-Men vs. Street Fighter is yet another Capcom cookie-cutter fighting game. This time, Street Fighters team up with X-Men in a two-on-two tag-team battle of pure insanity. While the game's characters play somewhat like their previous incarnations, their special moves have been pumped way up. Ryu's fireball is now as tall as he is. The flames coming off of Ken's Dragon Punch are huge, and it goes about two screen lengths up. While this is a neat concept at first, the derivative moves and defensive gameplay really bring this one down in the end.

What happens when you take an innovative arcade fighter, remove its most clever aspect, and put it on PlayStation? You get X-Men vs. Street Fighter, a game that delivers half the impact of its coin-op counterpart, yet isn't as horrible as you may be lead to believe.

X-Men vs. Street Fighter finally arrives on the PlayStation, only to be KO'd by an evil tag-team of choppy graphics and slow gameplay. Add in the discarded change-fighter feature, and X-Men vs. SF quickly tumbles to the bottom of Capcom's PlayStation brawl barrel.

When a system is incapable of doing justice to a game, one would think a company would be smart enough to not release the game on that system. But for reasons that are probably based entirely around making money, Capcom has released a completely butchered version of its arcade fighter, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, on the PlayStation. The only thing added to the game is super cancels, which allow you to string multiple super combos together. Super cancels were lifted out of Street Fighter EX without much forethought, so some characters' cancels work better than others. In fact, the entire game seems to have been designed without much forethought. Even if this were a perfect translation of the arcade game, the simple fact remains that X-Men vs. Street Fighter is a terrible, unbalanced, pound-on-buttons-at-random-and-win-anyway fighting game.