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Sega’s iconic one-on-one battler gets remade for a new generation by Yakuza and Judgment developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio.The game will not only be available on PlayStation Plus for about two months – June and July – but it’ll also be releasing on PlayStation Now in June! PlayStation Plus members can enter Virtua Fighter 5’s arenas starting Tuesday, June 1.
This means not only will you be able to play Sonic the Fighters on new consoles, but you will also get to see a 3D representation of the arcade cabinet.
While SEGA and their arcade future isn’t looking too bright, it is known that each main series Virtua Fighter game has had an arcade version and Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is no different as SEGA has confirmed the existence of an arcade version.
It seems that the game will be re-using the old Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown netcode, which at the time was well received but now more people are asking for rollback netcode in fighting games. This movement has spread so far out that SNK has even went back and updated their old classic games with rollback netcode.
So far, we've seen Akira, Taka-Arashi, Eileen, and Goh in this polygonal style.On top of retro skins, Legendary Pack will also include a Classic user interface that replaces the health bars and timer with the one we knew and still love from the original Virtua Fighter release.
This is, of course, because the remake of Virtua Fighter 5 dubbed Ultimate Showdown is hitting next week. A special bonus sees Sarah Bryant herself, voiced by friend of the site Lisle Wilkerson, narrating the video.
MadWorld is a game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Sega for the Wii which features large amounts of violence, and is presented entirely in a limited palette of black, white and red. Various characters from Mad World later would be playable in PlatinumGames & SEGA's VS Fighting game, Anarchy Reigns.
