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A completly Washed out version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i won't get this game, it's a complete disgrace to the arcade version. no tag team feature. major slowdowns, the graphics are completly washed out as if a ravine's water ran over it. and i don't understand why these sellers are selling their copy for [so much money]. this game should be selling for [far less]. only more reason not to get it. do not buy any Vs game for the Ps one all of them the tag team feature has been taken out.

IT SUCKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game .... there is no switching between characters, the game is plagued with slowdown, and the animations are hacked.... do not get it,it is not worth it, you will just be dissapointed.

Nonsense

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a Very bad conversion! at the beginning you choose 2 characters, great i thought and whilst you are playing, you CANNOT switch CHARACTERS at will like the arcade version! Isn't that the whole focus of the game? if you cant switch between characters, then why call this a tag team game?

you only get to see 1 life bar, there is 2 in the arcade version of this game (and on the saturn)!

The loading times takes ages (to be honest, you would have to wait longer than actually completing the game)!

to sum it all up this is a very, very, very disappointing game!

What was Capcom thinking?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I actually played the Saturn version with the 4MB RAM cart, and I have to say that the PS1 version SUCKS! Why? Because tag-team was taken out because the PS1 could not handle it. It did not have enough RAM (Random Access Memory) to switch fighters since it takes about at least 40 MB of RAM, and the PS1 only has 32 MB. If Capcom did put in tag-team, then it would take forever to load up a character once you tag-team with it, you can tag-team with the same character, but it does not feel the same.
I suggest get a Saturn, (it is only $10 bucks or less) get a 4MB RAM cart which you can find at EB.com, or any Video game store, and get the Import version of X-men vs. Street Fighter, trust me you wont be disappointed.

This game is bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.One of the few things the arcade version (and the Saturn version, which was an arcade-perfect translation) had going for it was the graphics. They weren't spectacular, but the characters were large, colorful, and used a lot of frames of animation. The PlayStation, a fairly weak machine when it comes to 2D, simply can't handle that much data. So Capcom chopped out tons of frames (Juggernaut does a whole lot of standing still, and his attacks are about two frames). The graphics look very washed out, and there is a completely unacceptable amount of slowdown. Ken's Shinryuken super combo had most of the frames chopped out, and it still slows the game down to a crawl. The slowdown and missing frames are so bad and so noticeable that they have a detrimental effect on the already bad gameplay.The arcade version's big selling point was that you picked two characters and could tag-team between the two at any time during the fight. Your teammate would also come out and help in a two-level team attack, as well as in Alpha counter-style attacks. Since duplicating this on the PlayStation would require keeping four entire sets of animations in memory, the tag feature has been completely removed. You still pick a second character (cruelly taunting players expecting the full functionality of the arcade version), but he only makes his presence felt during the team attacks and counters. To make up for the shortened play time, the one-round battles of the arcade have been extended to the standard two-out-of-three format. Characters also slowly regain life, much like your backup character would in the arcade.This game just shouldn't exist. At some point in the development cycle, someone should have stepped in, seen that the PlayStation simply couldn't do justice to the original game, and pulled the plug. It took an additional 4MB of RAM to get the Saturn, which already has more RAM than the PlayStation, to run a perfect version of the game. I like the Street Fighter series as much as the next guy, but this is taking it way too far.

Butchered arcade to home conversion

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To say that the PS1 version of Capcom's X-Men VS Street Fighter is butchered is saying it lightly. What made the game so great in arcades was the tag-team feature in which you picked two fighters and could switch at any time during the fight. This feature made for great fighting fun, but because of the PS1's RAM inabilities, that feature had to be omitted. It's obvious Capcom released this game to make a quick buck on the X-Men and Street Fighter licenses, and while on it's own it can be a solid fighter without the tag-team feature, the graphics are painfully watered down, the game is loaded with sloppy frame rates, and there is loads of slowdown. If you can get past all that, this may be worth checking out if your a Street Fighter fan, but the Marvel VS Capcom games that would be released later on next-gen systems are more worth your time.

It's hard, besides a few minor problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is hard cause Akuma and Wolverine is on there. They are my best two characters to choose from next to Ken and Ryu. It's cool, but the graphics [are bad]on here. Like, when you do a hyper combo, the graphics go on a blur for a few seconds or however long the combos lasts. But still, get this game cause it's so tight. If you pick Akuma or Wolverine as your first character, start off with some air combos then you'll have the advantage.

X-Men V.S. Street Fighter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's a pretty decent game, but to be honest the loading takes AGES. You will probably have beaten the game in the total loading time. Super Combos are nice and easy, even with Gouki, using "Tenma Gou Zanku" (Airial Messatsu Gou Hado), unfortunatley you can't use his Raging Demon attack. Ryu's "Hadoken" looks like something out of Dragon Ball Z. Gambit is sooooo cheap (but not as cheap as Vega in Street Fighter Alpha 3.) Chun-Li's "Kikosho" is alot larger and her "Hazan Tenshokyaku" is easier. It's the same with Cammy's "Killerbee Assault" and Bison's "Psycho Crusher." The enviroments are cool and in "Mall Mayhem" you can slam your opponent against a box. Watch out in "Apockalypse Now!" Apokalypse is REALLY cheap... but I'm not going to go spoiling surprises. The graphics aren't much better that Street Fighter Alpha 3 and it's quite similar (except for having X-Men.) A Serious shortage of characters. Even with Gouki it's only 9! An all around Okay game. Good for begginers.

Great for many of the reasons other reviewers are calling it bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I personally like many types of fighting games and FUN is the thing that keeps me coming back for more. A game can have pretty graphics sound great, and have all the bells and whistles in the world and still play like [...]. This game might not be as pretty as the Saturn version, but who wants a Saturn? One of the biggest flops since the future flop of Sony's [...]PS3. A few frames missing and slowdown which I have not experienced personally are by no means reasons to dismiss a game that combines X-men with Streetfighter very well. One more thing to mention about the price. Not to insult anyones intelligence but simply supply and demand. It is discontinued, there are fewer and fewer copies available thus causing those on the open market to raise in value.

It's a great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

it's a great game, it has some of the classic street fighters and you favorite x-men. it's a lot better in the arcade. but if you're a fighting game freak, it's a must have! .i give XMvsSF four stars out of five! if you do like this game i recommend you to get "marvel super heroes vs street fighter" it has different fighters and good colors. it's kinda an update on XMvsSF so if you dont have any of these games you should just go ahead and get MSHvsSF unless you have to get every street fighter related game like me!

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