Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol 1
Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Volume 1 - The collection will include the first four entries in the franchise: Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, and Fatal Fury 3. This will be the first appearance of the brawler on U.S. consoles since the original PlayStation's Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition in 1999. Released the same year as Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury was the first fighting game to allow players to battle on two planes. It also featured a cooperative mode when a second player joined a single-player game. The two would have to work together to defeat the computer-controlled opponent before they could fight one another. The sequel, Fatal Fury 2, introduced "desperation moves" that could be unleashed when your fighter was near defeat. Fatal Fury Special was an expanded version of Fatal Fury 2 with additional characters. The third proper entry in the series, Fatal Fury 3, added a third plane on which players could duke it out.
Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol 1 Accessories
 Art of Fighting Anthology
King of Fighters XI
NeoGeo Battle Coliseum
Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol 2
World Heroes Anthology
SNK Arcade Classics Vol 1
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Arcana Heart
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol 1 Reviews
It's a shame though that SNK did not add any new features to this collection. You have Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, and Fatal Fury 3. If you're a fan of old school fighting and SNK, this is a title not to be missed. If anyone is a fan of SNK, than they remember Fatal Fury from way back when. Fatal Fury Battle Archives Volume 1 brings the first 4 games from the Fatal Fury series to the Playstation 2, faithfully ported from the original arcade versions respectively on each title. Either having played it in the arcades, or playing the sometimes watered down (although still fun) ports on the old consoles like the Genesis or Super Nintendo. Other than that, Fatal Fury offers all the fun 2D style fighting you can find in games like Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown, and others. You have the ability to color edit characters, and also adjust difficulties, but that's about it.
One cool thing about the series, not seen in hardly any other fighting games is the ability to jump back and forth between foregrounds and backgrounds, adding another plane to fight on. It's fun, its old school, and its always to be remembered. this series could be considered, like Art of Fighting, a precursor to the King of Fighters series, as it features a lot of regulars in the series, including faces like Mai Shirunai, Andy and Terry Bogard, Geese, and plenty of others. Pretty bare bones in presentation.
The gameplay does not feel very modern in the first three games (you can barely even combo at all in the FF1), but then again, why would anyone buy a classic game compilation trying to expect modern gameplay. If you don't get it ASAP.
Ah, these games are old gems. The original Fatal Fury was released around the same time as SFII, so you will certainly notice it's age.
If you're an old school SNKer then heck, you probably have this game already. Anyone getting in to this game should know right off the bat that this is pretty old school.
This is the first time that a few of them have been made available in the U.S. The games are recreated faithfully, the music is still great (even today) and, most importantly, all of these games are fun.
on a home system besides the Neo-Geo.
But for us who grew up on these, it provided a much needed option in the then emerging fighting game genre. Not really for the new generation. Great for memories of days gone by. They would not appreciate the early graphics or the simple gameplay.
Everything is still the same. However, if you play as Andy Bogard for example. To include characters from the first one with some pretty cool stages. I'll also add Mai in there. To include some characters moves are removed and something new is added. The new characters aren't that interesting.
His dash move is incredibly easy to do. It can bust out at will. The other games improve greatly with the controls but it can still be a strain. For ex. The only downside for me is the music. I really dont like the stage music from any of the stages, except for Mai's. This collection would be perfect.
Others who are new to the this may become frustrated at first. I already heard about the Samurai Showdown collection coming soon. I really do like this twist, for the simple fact I'm still use to it from the arcade. Which I don't think is too bad. Terry's rising tackle is removed in favor for the power dunk. The cross through movement in the first 3 are altered and are now used as dashes. I just hope they do a real good job on those.
The control pad motions have to be exaggerated. This collection contains the first 4 Fatal Fury games in their complete arcade form. I hope SNK releases a World Heroes collection as well. Music, voices, and cheap cpu. Fatal Fury 1 is the only one with the major control issue. If it wasn't for the average controls and cheap cpu.
Fatal Fury 3 is a different game with a new fighting engine. But it can be pretty fun once you get it down. An SNK collection I can be proud of. It's obvious I'm happy with this. At least thats the way it works for me. With the bosses being playable.
So if your buying this used, its very important to make sure the instructions manuel is included. Every single one has the same flaws which is the controls. Now for me, with the exceptions of Geese Howard(which is my favorite) the big three; Andy, Terry, & Joe. Still the game can be beaten with patience.
SNK were kind enough to add a complete moves list, to include the trick to unlock the 3 secret characters in Fatal Fury 3. Fatal Fury Special is basically the "Champion Edition" version. Overall this is a pretty good collection. Fatal Fury 2 is good with 8 playable characters from the start.
What I mean is, you have to completely go through the full motion if you want moves to work.
It's still a fun game needlesstosay. This collection will keep you playing as it's tough even on Easy mode. FF 3 is the best looking game, but the new multi-line system is a little confusing at first. Despite the shortfalls, this is a solid collection of old school fighting games. FF 2 improves on this, with FF Special being the best game in the collection.
It's about time that this collection comes to the US. Like the Art of Fighting Anthology, these 4 games are 100% versions of the arcade games. 2 people can play, but the victor can't pick someone else for the next match. This has the first 4 Fatal Fury games (the Real Bout Fatal Fury games are in Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol 2 which is currently out only in Japan). However for the first Fatal Fury game, the issue of controls still comes up. My main issue is the lack of a real 2 player vs mode like they have in the Art of Fighting series.
Hopefully Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol 2 & the upcoming Japanese release of World Heroes Gorgeous will make it to North American soon.
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