Fighting Vipers 2

Fighting Vipers 2 is a 3D fighting video game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for their Model 3 arcade board in 1998, and ported to the Dreamcast in 2001. It is the sequel to the 1995 game Fighting Vipers.

Fighting Vipers 2
Developer(s)Sega AM2
Scarab (Dreamcast)
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Hiroshi Kataoka
Designer(s)Youji Kato
Artist(s)Hiroyuki Imaishi (drawn artwork)
Composer(s)Hidenori Shoji
SeriesFighting Vipers
Platform(s)Arcade, Dreamcast
ReleaseArcade
April 1998
Dreamcast
  • JP: January 18, 2001
  • EU: 2001
Genre(s)Fighting game
Arcade systemSega Model 3

Gameplay

Along with the original cast of the first game, Fighting Vipers 2 introduced Emi, a computer geek who fights with a self-developed mecha armor, and Charlie, a BMX rider. New unlockable characters included Del Sol (a Mexican wrestler with a Sun mask), and Kuhn (a copycat character with various movesets from all the other original characters similar to Virtua Fighter's Dural).

Release

The game was planned for a U.S. release but was later cancelled.

The game was praised for being a perfect Dreamcast port of the original Model 3 Arcade game (unlike Virtua Fighter 3tb which was a loose port), however the developers did not include any additional extras for this release, making it a straight port.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Fighting Vipers 2 on their June 15, 1998 issue as being the second most-successful arcade game of the year.[1]

Jim Preston reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "Dreamcast software sales were always sluggish in Japan, and with mediocre titles like this it's not hard to see why."[2]

On release, Famitsu magazine scored the Dreamcast version of the game a 30 out of 40.[3]

References
  1. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - TVゲーム機ーソフトウェア (Video Game Software)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 566. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 June 1998. p. 21.
  2. Preston, Jim (May 2001). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 4 no. 5. Imagine Media. p. 82.
  3. ドリームキャスト - FIGHTING VIPERS 2 (ファイティングバイパーズ2). Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.52. 30 June 2006.


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