KO! MVC2!

I decided to try out Marvel vs Capcom 2 after watching a video showing the top 10 best fighting games of all time. This game was one of the top. I had always liked 2D fighters, but I never really took the time to get good at them. Also, the lack of human competition really made the game boring after a while.

This one is definitely flashy, and the 3 character tag team is fun. It was entertaining to just button mash with my friends, but when it came down to it, there was a depth that all good 2D fighters share. Graphics-wise, I can’t really say it’s impressive, since it was 2D sprites that we’ve seen for years, but it certainly was flashy. The music was good too, though some of the selections were kind of strange.

There isn’t much to say about the game, since I played it for only an hour or so. Since it’s a 2D fighter, there isn’t really a storyline. The one annoying thing was unlocking characters. You had to earn points either by beating story mode or playing lots of versus mode; however, there were single player points as well as online points. Of course, since the online community doesn’t exist for the Playstation 2, there was no way for me to earn the online points. Therefore, to unlock a character, I had to keep entering and re-entering the shop screen until it was only worth single player points, which got extremely annoying after a while. Also, some of the characters were horrendously expensive. Story mode also got repetitive after a while. While I wouldn’t mind getting better at this game, I feel like unlocking characters was too much of a hassle to bother with. Also, there’s really no way for me to prove my skill if all I did was play computer players.

Overall, fun game if you have friends willing to play, but it does get boring using only the starting cast.