Virtua Fighter 2 (Windows)

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One year after after the first tournament Akira, Wolf, Pai, Jeffry, Kage, Jacky, Sarah and defending champion Lau are invited to the World Fighting Tournament, and are joined by the master of drunken Kung-Fu Shun-di, who wants to prove he's more than an old geezer and Lion Rafale, who's fighting for his freedom. Each fighter has his own style, from the lightning fast attacks of Pai to the powerful slams of Jeffry.

Home port of Sega's popular Model 2A arcade vs. fighter released in 1995. Game modes include classic arcade mode, 2P vs mode, Expert mode (where the computer character progressively learns and counters players' technique), Ranking Mode (similar to Arcade, but at the end, a fighting style analysis is shown based on number of specials and time to knock down an opponent), Team Battle Mode (two teams composed of five fighters go against each other, the first to beat five characters being the winner) and Watch mode (allows choosing two fighters and then see them fighting). Both VF2 and VF2.1 (a tweaked version available only in Japan) modes are included. Gameplay keeps the same style from the first game, adding more moves to each fighters' roll. Using a three-key layout (block, kick and punch, being possible to assign button combinations to the extra keys) the player is able to control their fighter, aiming to knock or push the opponent outside the rink inside the time limit. Combo moves range from the quickest, which require the player to push up to five buttons quickly, to strong moves that require more button presses along d-pad nudges to be successful. As with the previous game, fighting is realistic (except the physics-defying leaps), and each fighter has nothing but their body to harm the opponent.

While in comparison with the arcade version some parts took a hit on graphical quality (such as the texture details and backgrounds), the game uses the Saturn High-Resolution mode and flowing 60-fps to bring the arcade experience home.


Virtua Fighter 2 Windows Pai's victory pose.
Virtua Fighter 2 Windows Lion vs Sarah
Virtua Fighter 2 Windows Jacky vs Jeffry
Virtua Fighter 2 Windows Portrait mode

Alternate Titles

  • "VR战士2" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
  • "バーチャファイター2" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Virtually Perfect Zovni (9384) 4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars
Even better than the arcade version Robyrt (51) 4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars4.4 Stars
A decent fighting game James1 (240) unrated

The Press Says

PC Jeux Sep, 1997 89 out of 100 89
OK PC Gamer Dec, 1997 86 out of 100 86
PC Gamer Dec, 1997 82 out of 100 82
GameStar (Germany) Oct, 1997 81 out of 100 81
Computer Gaming World (CGW) Jan, 1998 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
Gamesmania 1997 80 out of 100 80
PC Player (Germany) Oct, 1997 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
Power Play Oct, 1997 78 out of 100 78
Computer Games Magazine 1997 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars 70 Jul 27, 2006 12 out of 20 60


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A Direct 3D patch was released to take advantage of hardware acceleration on slow PCs.
Derrick 'Knight' Steele (2156) added Virtua Fighter 2 (Windows) on Mar 23, 2000
Other platforms contributed by Kartanym (10785), Sciere (228102) and The cranky hermit (476)