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Release Dates:
EUR - October 26, 2007
NA - October 30, 2007
JPN - December 6, 2007
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Story:
Wikipedia said:
All of the sought after invitations for the Fifth World Fighting Tournament have been sent and now the 17 best fighters in the world begin their final phases of preparation. They must learn from their prior mistakes and perfect every aspect of their mind, body, and soul - for there is no room for mistakes in this competition. Little do they know that J6, the organization funding the tournament, has sinister ulteriour motives for the contest and the company's top secret Dural program is already well underway. In the organization's quest for world domination, the scientists at J6 are creating the ultimate fighting machine with human features. Their first model was defeated in the Fourth World Fighting Tournament, which drove them to kidnap Vanessa. She was able to escape with the help of an insider, but not before they captured her combat data and transferred it to the new advanced Dural model named V-Dural.
J6 is determined to find out who the inside traitor is that released Vanessa and more importantly, if V-Dural is indeed ready to defeat the world's best fighters. The Fifth World Fighting Tournament will reveal both - let it begin.
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Characters:
·feist· said:
1up.com's Character Breakdown
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On online play:
Eurogamer said:
But the main reason you're reading this is probably to find out just how well the new online side of the game works, which is fortunate as we're about to tell you. Pretty damn well is the short answer and in general, lag doesn't affect the game anywhere near as drastically as we feared it might. After hundreds of fights, only few were anything close to the slideshow that is DOA4's online mode and you can usually get a fair idea of how the connection if from the pre-match stage fly-by - if it stutters, you're in trouble but otherwise, things should be fine. When you are unlucky enough to get a laggy match, drops cause button inputs to be missed which in turn leads to the wrong moves coming out. There's no chance for anything fancy here and players know it too, as exemplified by a Vanessa player we came across in a particularly slowdown-riddled game who decided his best bet was to simply spam the punch button and hope for the best. What a knucklehead.
At its best, though, VF5's online battles are almost as good as fighting somebody in the same room. You'll lose a few frames here and there, sure, making some hit throws and complex moves as well as high-level techniques like fuzzy guarding (tapping down while guarding exactly as attacks land to prevent damage from all heights of attack) pretty tough, but this won't worry too many normal players. Once you adapt to this (and learn how to cope with the occasional lag-fest, which is always going to happen now and again, especially without any kind of connection quality gauge), you'll establish that, while it might be a slightly different proposition to face-to-face versus play depending largely on your character and skill level, this is a welcome and incredibly well implemented feature.
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Online Play Footage:
GameTrailers Online Play Montage
Japan-Canada Latency
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Scores:
Eurogamer: 9/10
OXM UK: 9/10
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GAF username/XBL Gamertag:
robut/robut (USA/No Preference)
ant1532/Antpod (USA/Pai)
jordan0386/Team215 (USA)
CurseoftheGods/Sonic Q8 (Canada)
Methylidene (Netherlands/Akira)
sebmarine/sebmarine (Belgium/Lau)
Vrolokus/Vrolokus (USA)
Omar Ismail/rastex
GCQuinton/Wsv771 (USA)
DXMachina/DXMachina
I AM JOHN!/FreakmanJ (USA)
JavaMava/GillaMobster
DaCocoBrova/DAC0C0B (USA/Sarah)
ThatCrazyGuy/CoolGuy4Life (USA/Akira)
Grifter/Grifter 181 (USA/Akira+Brad)
Snaku/Tequila Bomb (USA)
Shogmaster/Shogmaster (USA)
Fatghost/The Fatghost
soakrates/GodDamn56kModem (USA/Lei Fei)
Caj814/Caj814 (USA/Sarah + Akira)
mr stroke/MR STROKE
monoRAIL/monoRAIL (Australia/Lion+Pai+Sarah+Akira)
therapist/IceCreamTaco (Canada)
Martial Loh/Martial Loh (UK)
Temujin/Temujinski (Belgium)
Haklong/Haklong (USA)
Segata Sanshiro/MuzEX
Bebpo/bebpojp (USA/Akira+Kage+Eileen+Aoi+Shun+Jeffry)
CajoleJuice/CajoleJuice (USA/El Blaze)
Freshmaker/MarredJin
DustinC/Deathrawk (Lei Fei)
BdoUK/BdoUK
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Commercial 360 Controller Alternatives: (recommend some!)
HORI Fighting Stick EX2
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