MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics Review

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We’re living through a veritable golden age of fighting games right now. It feels like you can’t go more than a couple of months without a new feature-rich, mechanically dense and utterly addicting fighter coming out, and with the hefty amount of DLC support modern fighting games get, even the ones that are a bit long in the tooth still feel fresh years after release. There’s a new wave of gamers taking to these games and entrenching themselves in the fighting game community (FGC). Despite flourishing modern releases, though, so many of the older iconic staples haven’t been easily playable or accessible in ages. Enter Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics to right some of these wrongs.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is arguably the game that kicked off the culture and energy that we’ve associated with the FGC for so long. Now, thanks to Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, everyone and anyone can be taken for a ride in this all-time classic – as well as play the six other games that helped form the history and backbone that would ultimately lead to this all-star fighting game’s birth.

I can’t imagine there’s an equal amount of fever and hype around all of the games in this collection. Obviously, the star of the show is Marvel vs. Capcom 2 – the 3v3 crossover fighter from 2000 that is pretty undeniably one of the best fighting games of all time for multiple reasons and across numerous categories. It’s a game full of boisterous style and campy, flashy vibes that you can’t help but smile at. Sure, back when it first came out, people hated the soundtrack so much that you couldn’t go to a single FGC meetup without seeing someone rocking a custom MvC2 mixtape full of Ricky Martin and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony tracks. Nowadays, there’s as much of a charm to the goofy character-select music as there is to the beautifully rendered character portraits, the overwhelming stage animations, and the feverishly fluid sprite animations.

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