manhattanprince
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This is a good DC game but a bad fighting game. It has everything DC fans love: an engaging story with a badass know-it-all/solve-it-all Batman, a villainous brute and dumb Superman, a toxically macho Wonder Man, and other disposable characters to enhance Batman's good traits in the story. But as a fighting game, it doesn't work.
Batman and Superman are the only two characters who actually fight: punches, kicks, grapples, and so on. The rest of the cast use "gimmicks" to do combos. For example, Dr. Fate literally does long hand gestures to conjure a projectile, Poison Ivy has a move where she literally turns around, tosses a seed in the ground, then a plant grows and shoots projectiles at the opponent. It's absurd! Not only are the developers the same as Mortal Kombat, but it seems that they never played other fighting games beyond Mortal Kombat. It will never be a good fighting game unless the developers learn that fighters should punch, kick, and grapple in the first place.
Batman and Superman are the only two characters who actually fight: punches, kicks, grapples, and so on. The rest of the cast use "gimmicks" to do combos. For example, Dr. Fate literally does long hand gestures to conjure a projectile, Poison Ivy has a move where she literally turns around, tosses a seed in the ground, then a plant grows and shoots projectiles at the opponent. It's absurd! Not only are the developers the same as Mortal Kombat, but it seems that they never played other fighting games beyond Mortal Kombat. It will never be a good fighting game unless the developers learn that fighters should punch, kick, and grapple in the first place.
2001
2009
Imagine a game that displeases you in every aspect possible, not that the game is bad, simply is not your thing. I hated the menus, hated the narrator, hated the loading, and mainly hated the gameplay. For someone who only played Street Fighter 2 in SNES/3DO, seeing this Capcom SF Alpha aesthetic/gameplay was awful. I played a little and abandoned later.