Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Underappreciated"

In Samurai Showdown V, all characters (and you have a lot of choice ^^) turn around Samurai style combat or ninja ( this is pretty hot!). The game is certanly more popular on ARC console than Xbox or PS2. The graphic aren't so bad, The life bar is a little bit riddiculous and small and we can't change them in the option. The game have only 3 game mode (it's loser!), VS, Arcade and Xbox live. The game isn't revolusinary, well most look like a piece of nothing good.... But! All characters are a quite beautifull (the loading are nice to because we can see the character's art in details, I loved this part ^^). The game system is like in every ARC game, you have special skill and special combo (only during rage mode). The little "plus" that I really liked in this game is the "sword-to-sword" fight, when you and your ennemies attack in the same time, you will have a little sequence where you must press the most time a button to win the "sword-to-sword" combat, after, the ennemie lose is weapon and he or she is obligate to go catch it if he or she want to attack (well, even if you don't have weapon, you can win using kick attack ^^).

Well, I'm a 2D fighting fan at all,so I give it 9/10.
If only they have more fighting mode and better life bar, the game could be perfect ^^