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Capcom has done it again!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Marvel vs. capcom 2 is deffinatly the best arcade fighter that ever has come to the dreacast console. One element that makes this fighter better than the others is the graphics. The gamers down at capcom headquarters perfected 2d fighters along with a 3d backround. The reason this game didn't get a five star is because of the controls. Button smashers can get away with more than they should. I don't think that this is the best two player game out there. I found that my friends were at each others throats yelling because someone hit the punch button until his oponents life meter was gone. Over all though this is truely my favorite fighter of all time!!!

Here it is: The best fighter on the Dreamcast so far!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Anyone familiar with Capcom knows the company has two very different kinds of fighting games they produce. While these games often star the same characters, that's where the similarity ends.

Games like "Street Fighter Alpha 3" or "Capcom vs. SNK" fall into the Serious category, where the pace is slower, the moves less flashy and more difficult to do, and a higher level of mastery required to be able to play the game correctly.

On the other side of the camp, you have games like "Pocket Fighters" or "Street Fighter vs. X-Men" which are more like fantasy match ups that aren't supposed to happen in the real timeline of the games. These are the Just For Fun types of Capcom fighters. The downside to these has always been that they're simpler, flashier, easier, and much more shallow.

MvsC2 fits the first two parts of the description.

Dispelling the flashy=shallow myth, this game elevates the insane fantasy brawl from a fun fighter game-lite into an art form. While the game is much simpler to get the hang of than most serious fighters, it also has at least as much, if not more, depth to it. A newbie can pull off triple tag-team hyper combos within 10 minutes of play, but an experienced fighter can pop you up, air-combo you, tag-in attack you, pop you up again, air fireball you, and then triple tag-in hyper combo you individually 3 times on the way down. Sound insane? Oh, is it ever.

This game makes "insane" an understatement. 56 selectable characters, half of which much be earned. 3(!) characters PER SIDE per fight (and the fight only ends when someone looses all three). Wonderful background animations, countless character animations, literally hundreds of possible moves, and all done in nice high-color, blazing fast, decent resolution graphics, with any or all of the characters onscreen at once with nary a hint of slowdown. "Amazing" doesn't do the game justice.

Downsides are present, however. While some characters look fine (Akuma, Ryu) some others (Tron Bonne, Shuma Gorrath) look like they were clubbed as infants by the low res/bad animation stick. Also, some of the voice acting is woefully out of place (Jill Valentine's victory dace of shooting off a flare then jumping up and down repeatedly saying "Come on!" with a happy look on her face comes to mind.) It's also worth noting that the music is not your typical fighting game fare. While calm jazzy lounge music is all fine and good, it's not what I envision as the ideal fighter soundtrack. Cap vs. SNK has the soundtrack thing down pat. This game, well...whatever, it fits the game's fun attitude alright I suppose. I just would've liked something a little more punchy. (Bad pun not intended).

These are minor complaints, however. If you've ever wondered who'd win in a Mega Man-Morrigan-Akuma vs. Ryu-Wolverine-Spider Man matchup, here's your chance to find out in style.

Highly recommended. LOADS of fun. Order now!

2D fighting at it's best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the ultimate 2D fighting game out right now. I've been a fan of the 2D fighter for longer than a decade...this one tops the list. 56 characters, 3 characters per team, the ability to switch a fighter during a fight, crazy combos, great animation, and beautiful sound. It plays best with a bunch of friends. For the price, it's a MUST buy!

BEST vs series ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the best vs seriers that was made. Over 50 characters with crazy combos and secrets. I give 5 stars! 2d characters with 3d-backrounds. wow

Best game of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Marvel vs Capcom 2 is Capcom's fourth go at their VS games. It combines Capcom characters with characters from the Marvel universe including Ryu, Megaman, Hayato, Strider, Cable, Rogue, Wolverine (with a unneeded feral version), Marrow, Dr. Doom, Juggernaut, Thanos and the list goes on and on. There's an astonishing total amount of 56 characters - most of which have to be unlocked.

The mechanism to unlock secrets is simple, but effective: You earn points by playing the game in its different modes. When you've earned enough points, you go to the Secret Factor shop and buy a new character. Or a new stage (7 in total, which are just spin-offs of the original stages). Or new colours!! wahoo!!

But as I've said before, this method works quite effective - since it is what makes this game to darn addictive. It boasts an incredible replay value. I've played this game for many many months. And all that time I've played added up, would've taken me over 60 hours of play to reveal all the secrets. It doesn't stop after this. When you've unlocked all secrets, you can pick the same character trice!!

Yes, you play with three characters. This is how the game works: You select three characters from either the Capcom or Marvel universe. Your opponent picks three as well and the first one to defeat all 3 opposing characters wins. It sounds like an uneven brawl, but it surprsingly works very well. And it can work for you since you can come up with different strategies this way.

You just fight one on one, but you can either switch with one of the other two or call them in to help you in the fight. Either in an "Assist Move" or in a dizzy killer triple Super Combo Move.

The game is arcade perfect. Truly wonderful pixelated low-res 2D characters splash around the screen on stunning 3D backgrounds. And it's pulled off really well. Most of the characters just blend in the background easily. It doesn't look akward at all.

The presentation is very good. With the flashy graphics and the cool intro sequence which lists all the features like a commercial. The game also features a energetic jazzy soundtrack. Some might think it doesn't really suit a fighting game, but I think it's great. It really sounds like you're dealing with Marvel when you hear this. The music has the same energy you would've got from the comics and cartoons. It grows on you after a while.

But this game isn't all perfect. As I said before, the characters are in low-res. Capcom did redraw some of these, but at least they could've tried to present them high-res. And the game can get so frantic, that any [person] can win when he keeps smashing all the buttons. But other than that, the game is great. Those few downsides don't take anything away at all.

You can easily play this with a Dreamcast controller btw... The game got rid of two buttons and now you've only got a low and high punch/kick. The two other analogue shoulder buttons are used for the Assist Moves.

The game can get crazy at times with the zillions of following moves in a combo. And some of the new characters are like they were put in as jokes as well, like Servbot and Dan (check out his super Ha-Do-Ken). But with the great replay value, the great graphics, sounds, voices (most of the voices are from the same people who did them in the X-Men cartoon series), music, presentation... This is truly an essential must for any Marvel, Capcom, Street Fighter or Dreamcast fan.

The Greatest Fighting Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've never owned Marvel vs. Capcom 2, but I've played it many-a-time. I can understand why you can't find it anywhere because I think you'd have to be crazy to give this game up.
When I first played it on dreamcast, I was in awe. The graphics were fantastic, the game play was awesome, it seemed that it was flawless. This and the original (Marvel vs. Capcom) are games in which you can interchange the characters you choose. You choose three characters, which makes competition more interesting.
The game even makes you work for more characters. You start out with 16, but you can get up to 56. You have to beat the game once to get all the characters.
The settings are well-designed. The graphics are a lot better than the first game, though the first game is very good also. The game play is very intense, which would be necessary for any Capcom game, but this one exceeds the expectation of regular intensity.
All in all, this is the greatest fighting game ever. I've played a lot of fighting games, and none can compare to Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the best 2d fighting game ever! The backgrounds are simply beautiful, there are so many characters to choose from, the music is nicely sequenced, graphics are perfect, and overall, I could play the game all day.... if I had it. O__O

The qualities of "Marvel vs. Capcom 2"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What's hot is:
-The background graphics
-Improvement in gameplay leads to more insanity, plus it's easy to get used to
-Cool way to unlock really cool things

What's not is:
-It's too addictive
-Get's confusing sometimes

What's so strange:
-Don't you wish you could play with the boss(The Abyss)?

What's the final word:
There's no denying that this is one totally insane game. If anyone out there like fighting with insanity, you haven't seen anything yet.

A massive effort turned a bit shallow

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Chances are you've played any of the VS. series titles, including Xmen vs. Streetfighter, Marvel vs. Streetfighter, etc.

Well Capcom decided one day to mash in every single fighter from those games (literally) add a bunch to the mix, and make it a 3 on 3 affair. All in all, there are a whopping 56 characters, probably the biggest roster in fighting game history. With all these characters you can't really go wrong with the purchase.

But compared to other fighters made by Capcom and the now vanished SNK, this game falters in nearly every other aspect.

This game is no different from the other vs. series...except now you've got 3 characters at your disposal. You still launch your opponents into air and air raving/comboing their brains out by mashing on the 4 buttons provided (They removed the mediums)and you still bring in your buddies for a group beatdown. This isn't very deep gameplay, no matter how flashy it is, folks.

The graphics are basically sprite pulls from other games. We're still seeing the originals Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and a heap of others as they appeared in Street Fighter Alpha in 1996(!!) Due to capcom using low res, the characters are pixelated, even the new characters. Guilty Gear X this is not.

Backgrounds however are very beautiful, with very vibrant colors and much animation to boot.

Capcom's sound team must be bored as heck because they've kept the same sound effects ever since the Alpha series came out.

And the music is just plain bad. A bad journey into jazz instrumentation is all it is.

Gamers should turn to King of Fighters, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter 3, or Capcom vs. SNK first before picking this title up.

The best 2D Fighter ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a 2D fighting game, look no further-- you have found "the one". Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is without a doubt, the best 2D fighting game ever made-- (for 3D I would have to direct you to "Virtual On 2: Oratorio Tangram" also for Dreamcast.) The gameplay in MVC2 is perfect-- the combos can just come together perfectly. and Multiplayer is awesome! the Multiplayer mode gives this game infinate re-playability, and the 56 characters help with that, too. The music is of upbeat Jazz, and fits the style of the game perfectly-- tired of fighting games with annoying rap "music"? I sure am! Capcom was smart enough to throw some seriously cool music into this game. The graphics come together with an awesome effect -- 2D characters with a 3D backround! You have to see it to know what I mean by having the graphics "come together" by using this effect. From the Marvel Heroes such as Wolverine and Spiderman, to the Capcom fighters such as Ryu and Chun-Li, the characters NEVER get old. -- This is the only fighing game where you can have Cable, Akuma, and Storm on the same team!! I recommened this game to ANY Dreamcast owner. This game is too good not to have! :-D

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