Story:
The Vipers
fought the hot battles at the City Tower. Despite the conspiracy
of the City Mayor, B.M., everyone thought that they had won with his own
power.
2 years has past... The City is still under the dictatorship of the mayor B.M. With growing hatred against the
Vipers who stood against him, he proposed a municipal bylaw for the "Viper
Hunt", and enforced it. Many vipers were arrested and thrown into
jail, the rest who escaped, hid themselves and removed their armors. But, there were few who
would not give in to the mayor's oppression, and would continue to fight.
Here begin the hot battles of the last Vipers...
Review:
The sequel
to Sega's sleeper arcade hit Fighting Vipers was released only in Japan (1998) and
in Europe (2001)... thus becoming a very rare game for the American audience.
Fighting Vipers 2 introduces 2
new characters (Emi & Charlie), new stage designs, and a few gameplay tweaks.
C'mere Honey. . .
The gameplay builds upon the armor breaking system in the first game. The main draw of the gameplay once again are using the
enclosed stages to your advantage and breaking your opponents armor. The new
armor gauge
shows the state of each fighter's armor, and when the armor is broken there are new effects on the
character... when a fighter has lost all of their armor, they will be susceptible
to a "Super K.O" move from their opponent.
Emi has an awesome giant
terry bear. Hell yea.
Unlike Tekken,
Virtua Fighter or even the Street Fighter games of the time; Fighting Vipers has a
rather simplistic fighting engine. The gameplay revolves mostly around stringing together ever-longer
combinations of basic punches and kicks. This causes fights to usually end very quick,
since the longer chain attacks
can be so devastating. For high level players, it's important to learn the deflections and guard
breaker moves common to each character The lack of dodge or sidestep
moves makes breakers and deflections very important as it's quite easy to get
caught against
a wall and juggled into a KO within a few seconds.
Still never got around to playing this one... but I always wanted to. Maybe I'll
score a Dreamcast import
version one of these days. :/ ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG
Arcade), January 18th 2001 (
Dreamcast)
