Virtua Fighter 5 is a fun fighter to play, and looks gorgeous. The backgrounds are really, for a lack of better words, pretty, and may distract you from the actual fighting. The single player mode, "Quest" is one where you have a map of arcades to choose from, which all have different tournaments which you can compete in. Winning these will unlock you new items and increase your rank, but it seems a bit pointless still, because there is no actual story. The backgrounds do not really fit with where you are as well, your not actually fighting at the location most of the time, your off in some jungle, or at a beach which has none of the arcade there. There is no arcade building or arena, or audience there. Maybe if there was a story it could fit into the plot, it takes you off to these places where you fight a person for information and such, and it could use the map system as well. The items and different costumes could then also fit into it, as you verse tougher opponents, the items and costumes may actually do something, to give you an edge, but no they are really there for customization, which is fine, but I find the menu system a bit tricky at first, and now that I've used it a couple of times its just to slow to use. Now to the multiplayer. I feel fine with it being only 1 on 1, and not allowing more than 2 people to fight at a time, but I feel there could be more modes. Such as a tag team, but with larger arenas, so you can try and keep your opponent from getting to their friend, making it tougher for them and you. This could also work in a co-op mode, where you can tag a friend to help take down the AI, but no its still the arcade style. Which is fine, and a lot of fun at first. But it wears after a while. No, Virtua Fighter 5 is a great game, with great visuals, but it could be more in depth, and could have more modes. Its great fun, but if you want a more in depth game, wait for Tekken to come out.
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