Tekken (PlayStation)

The king of iron fist, enter the Tekken. Tekken is Namco’s answer to Sega’s popular Virtua Fighter series. Tekken is a 3D fighting game where all competitors battle it out to determine who the most deadly fighter is. The aim of the game is simple, but the diversity of gameplay will take months t ... more >>

Tekken 3 (PlayStation)

Set fifteen years after it’s predecessor, it seems that everybody has grown old in this brand new “King of Iron Fist Tournament.” This sequel comes with a continuing story line, complete with a brand new bad guy, Ogre.

I appears that the Mishima empire has suffered a loss to a certain nasty ... more >>

Last Bronx (PC)

In this ultimate urban brawl, vicious gang warriors look for blood in the streets of Tokyo.

They're coming armed to the teeth with a body count in mind. If you lose this battle, you leave in a bag.

So get pumped up and get prepared. You've got eight kick-butt distinct street fighters with ... more >>

Last Bronx (Saturn)

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Soul Fighter (Dreamcast)

Based in a medieval setting, Soul Fighter offers a choice between arcade or adventure modes. You select to play one of three characters, Altus, Sayomi or Orion, each one offering over one hundred different motion-captured moves.

You fight against forty-four half-human, half-beast enemies acro ... more >>

Soul Fighter (GameCube)

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Street Fighter EX3 (PS2)

The Street Fighter series has been running so long it has almost become an institution. There is good reason for this success and that is how brilliantly designed and balanced the gameplay has become. It’s down to games like Street Fighter that the beat-em-up genre has become so popular. Going b ... more >>

Toshinden 4 (PlayStation)

Toshinden 4 continues the ongoing storyline of its successors. Series hero Eiji has mysteriously turned to the dark side, leaving his only son, Subaru, to uphold and avenge the sullied family name. Assisted by another veteran of the Toshinden wars - Subaru makes his debut in the Battle Arena as ... more >>

Project Justice (Dreamcast)

If any one company knows how to make truly great fighting games, it’s Capcom. They practically defined the standard of the beat-em-up genre when they released Street Fighter 2 back in 1991. The world has moved on since them, but Project Justice still retains the classic arcade feel of Street Fig ... more >>

Virtua Fighter 4 (PS2)

Having only appeared on doomed Sega machines and in the arcades, Virtua Fighter, as both a game and a brand, had never been properly exposed to the new generation of PlayStation consumers. Tekken, without doubt an inferior series, received adoration and acclaim that was the rightful property of ... more >>

Tekken 4 (PS2)

The king of the iron fist tournament finally returns, this time accompanied by slightly less hype and misleading propaganda. The concept originally announced before the PS2's release, which soon turned into Tekken Tag Tournament, now seems to have come to fruition, as Tekken 4 boasts all the fe ... more >>

X-Men: Next Dimension (Xbox)

With Marvel's X-Men firmly in the limelight, and in anticipation of the second film release, Activision has unleashed yet another X-Men beat-em-up, this time in the style of Tecmo's Dead or Alive series.

Easing the constraints of the beat-em-up genre, the appropriately named Next Dimension de ... more >>

X-Men: Next Dimension (GameCube)

What do you do with an X-Men license that best fits the well-established and hugely popular franchise? How do you release a beat-em-up these days to a gaming public that, aside from hardcore, just isn't interested?

The answer to both these questions lies in the shiny GameCube game box contain ... more >>

X-Men: Next Dimension (PS2)

With the second X-Men film on the horizon, it seems like a good time for Activision to release a beat-em-up based on the popular Marvel characters. Especially considering that just about enough time has passed to allow us to forget that the first film was not actually very good in the first pla ... more >>

Way of the Samurai (PS2)

Way of the Samurai is set in the year 1878, during the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogun and the rise of the Meiji Restoration Era. For centuries, Japan has remained untouched and separate from other cultures. But now Westerners have finally arrived on the island nation, rocking a culture that has ... more >>

Onimusha: Blade Warriors (PS2)

The latest instalment in Capcom's established Onimusha series takes a slight detour from the usual action/adventure route, instead opting for a new style of gameplay in the form of Smash Bros-style, arena-based combat. As such, Blade Warriors brings a host of characters from the first two Onimus ... more >>

Samurai Warriors (Xbox)

From the internal development studio at KOEI responsible for the popular Dynasty Warriors series comes Samurai Warriors. As you may have guessed from the title, the game treads a similar path with regard to setting and scenario, but it offers more of a tactical slant to the combat system.

The ... more >>

Samurai Warriors (PS2)

From the internal development studio at KOEI responsible for the popular Dynasty Warriors series comes Samurai Warriors. As you may have guessed from the title, the game treads a similar path with regard to setting and scenario, but it offers more of a tactical slant to the combat system.

The ... more >>