Samurai Shodown Review
Samurai Shodown looks and sounds lovely, but it ultimately fails the playability test due to slipshod control and boring, depthless gameplay.
It's the 90s where Capcom kick started the fighting game genre with Street Fighter II and SNK wanted to try and get their own set of fighting games to feed on Street Fighter II's success. SNK had Fatal Fury, Art of Fight... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulAlrite Samurai Shodown. A great fighting game based off the NEO GEO Arcade hardware. I played SS whenever I could. Usually at the store or something like that. NEO GEO games used to be very intimidating to me. They ... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpfulThis was My first ever Neo-Geo game and for 900 Wii points ( about £6) it is great, for a fifteen year old game the visuals are still quite good today, with good background detail and Huge characters. The control system ... Read Full Review
2 of 3 users found the following review helpfulThe company SNK is most well-known for their wealth of fighting games. Going hand-in-hand with this is their first video game console, the Neo-Geo (both a game system and an arcade cabinet format), which was saturated wi... Read Full Review
0 of 3 users found the following review helpfulThis game really took it.It revolutionized the gaming world as far as platform fighters are concerned.Unlike the usual fighting games like Street Fighter,Mortal Combat, and the others, now one had to use more than fists ... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpfulI played this game a few times and I noticed the street fighter like style of gameplay that this game had. What made it so good is that it had weapons as well. This was one of the first games i believe that used weapon... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpfulSamurai Shodown is one of those games that is really geared toward a certain audience, and if you fit into that audience, congratulations you now have no freetime. When this game out in 94', SNK had just broken the 100 ... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpfulThis is one of my favorite old-school fighters, and the SNES version is really not a bad one and plays pretty well. Ok, right off the bat I need to say that your characters are a little on the small side, and that you... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpfulthe game gives almost no reason to play. its a horrible pathetic mess of crap, crpa and god knows what in between. the game sucks. no. it blows. if its graphics werent at least fair or non sucky it would have bean on th... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulWhen you think ‘weapons-based fighter’, the first game into many people’s heads would be one from Namco’s Soul Edge/Calibur series. Take a step more than a few years back in time, specifically to late 1993, and you’ll en... Read Full Review
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