The game received universal critical acclaim, garnering perfect 10/10 scores from GameSpot and "IGN", and was for nearly a decade the last game to receive a perfect rating from "IGN", until the release of "Grand Theft Auto IV" in 2008. It is the second game ever to get a perfect 40/40 from Japanese gaming magazine "Famitsu" (the first being ""). As of 2017, game review aggregator website GameRankings has the Dreamcast version ranked as the seventh best-reviewed game of all time, as well as being the highest scoring title in the fighting game genre.