Virtua Fighter is the fighting game version of your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.

VF4 Evo was ahead of its time. Tekken 8 has Arcade Quest but VF had a Quest Mode way back then nearly two decades before! Awesome.

VF4 Evolution was insane. Releasing as a greatest hits it only cost $20 bucks on release. Improved on VF4 in every way. No story mode but I honestly don’t care about story modes in fighting games. The quest mode though, wow so much fun, going to different arcades and fighting different players and collecting different stuff for your costumes… and the extensive training and tutorials. I am so happy I had friend interested in the game as we sank hundreds of hours against each other.

Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution still has the most comprehensive training mode ever created.

VF4 EVO's Quest mode and character customization options hooked me so hard.

VF4 was peak aesthetic and soundtrack while VF4 Evolution was peak gameplay and pure fun with quest mode

VF4: Evolution has been a huge part of my life

The Virtua Fighter 4 series is pretty much the peak of the entire VF series, all VF games after VF4FT just aren't as good not even close.

Your character review of Lei Fei and Vanessa is SPOT ON. This hits home since Lei Fei was my Dad’s main character and Vanessa was and still is mine 😂 good stuff! 💪🏾💯

I find it kind of weird you decided to cover the Vanilla version of the game primarily over the Evolution update or even Final Tuned (but that never got a release on home consoles, what a shame). So, it's an interesting perspective. I would like to add some things though. The Vanilla version was primarily meant as a companion to the arcade version and that's it. It came with a character access card in the box and if you really wanted to stick to playing at home AM2 allowed the game to read from both memory card slots at once to emulate swiping your card at the machine. So, two players with two different memory cards could plug them into the card 1 and 2 slots and load up the profiles they earned on the console version in the Player 1 and 2 slots. These memory cards were also hot swappable. Vanilla is also weird because it represented a transition between VF3 and VF4 Evolution in terms of mechanics. The neutral-heavy gameplay of 3 was indeed gone (not fully though because the Baigau Step let you crouch dash forward and backwards and sideways at incredibly fast pace) but the movelist and damage were more like VF3. The remnants of VF3 are there but not immediately obvious. vf.net had a cell phone service you had to pay money for, but you could look at stats and leaderboards and such on the go. I think you could even change character outfits since the information was stored on the service itself and hooked up to the internet. Flycast will now emulate NAOMI 2 very well, and you can play the arcade versions of all of VF4's many updates from VF4 Ver. A to VF4 Final Tuned Ver. B

"Doesn't innovate much outside of graphical fidelity?" You couldn't be more wrong. Virtua Fighter is known for their innovations since it's inception. It's literally the reason, why there is no VF 6, because Sega doesn't know what the next innovating step will be with it's franchise. When VF innovated, Namco almost always took that and put it into Tekken.

4E is still by far my favourite fighting game ever .. I miss the arcade campaign mode

vf still looks gorgeous. Even on ps2.

This may sound weird to you all. But i think VF4 is more lacklusting when it comes to modes and extras. I had this and i don't like it. The music and visual is great, but for the rest it's more like a arcade itself than a PS2 game. VF4 EVO however, was better than vanilla VF4. With way better Quest Mode and more things to unlock. But compare by playing VF5US... It was worst than VF4.

Virtua Fighter 4 is my favorite 3D fighter!

Quick correction. VF3 didn't go the Tekken 4 route with uneven stages. It's the other way around. VF3 came out back in 1996, Tekken 4 was 2001.

Virtual Fighter 4 Evolution is one of my favorite games of all time. This game, in my opinion, has the greatest tutorial mode you will ever find in a game. A little trivia in regards to VF4. According to Sega, the arcade ports of VF3 and VF4 were so popular in Japan that it saved Sega from bankruptcy after the financial failure of Shenmue.

Very nice take! I throughly enjoyed this review! VF4 Vanilla should definitely get more love. I personally think the default stages in VF4 top the default stages in VF4Evo… which may be why you can unlock those stages from Evos Quest Mode 😂 I also appreciate the simplicity of Vanessa’s sports costume in VF4, but for censorship reasons they took it out of VF4Evo. Eh, I don’t think it was that revealing though 🤷🏾‍♂️ Also, you sharing that you weren’t even alive back in 2001 or 2002 is mind blowing to me. I’m so glad you didn’t miss out on this Fighting Game Gem 💎

Totally forgot about this gem. Too bad the series ended with 5, but Tekken is its spiritual successor in my eyes.

Great Video on VF4! This game series needs to be on PC as these games can still have a audience with how in depth core VF gameplay is

Tekken 4 did the Virtua Fighter 3 thing! Not the other way around!

4:58 No, Tekken 4 went the Virtua Fighter 3 Route.

I never had sega consoles so virtua fighter 4 is my first virtua fighter game on the PS2 but in comparison I like evolution more

VF4 EVO was my introduction to fighting games. One of the greatest fighting games I have ever played.

It’s cliche, but this game got me through some serious shit when I was a teen. Still playing it to this day.

True Ps2 most solid fighter i ever played.

Tekken 4's uneven stages idea came from VF3, instead of as is said, the other way around. Any ways, i shouldn't bother too much about that, as long as VF4 gets attention, i'm quite happy... Except, yeah, it wasn't viewed much.

Interesting that you chose the original vf4 instead of evolution. Evo had much more content and you had even mentioned a KZfaq video covering that version.

VF3 video i want dodge button shenanigans

Aún lo sigo jugando en mi ps2, tiene un gran equilibrio y puede ser muy competitivo, mi personaje favorito es GoH Inogami

"VF3 went the Tekken 4 route" uhh other way around man, considering VF3 came out in 1996 and Tekken 4 came out in 2001, lol. I also heavily disagree with VF not innovating in the genre outside of graphics, it is literally THE most innovative 3-D fighting game series, Tekken copied a bunch of stuff from VF: uneven stages, character customization, etc. Heck Tekken 8 even "borrowed" VF4's quest mode idea. Let's not even get into other 3-D series like Battle Arena Toshinden, Soul Calibur, etc who took the idea of "ring outs" from VF. DOA even uses the same button layout of punch, kick, guard.

VF 4 was my first ps2 game along with Maximo.. Sadly it was stolen after I moved to Fl but it then gave me the excuse to pick up the Evo version which I still have! Recently picked up DOA 5 Ultimate predominately because it features Jacky maybe my favorite all around fighter of the genre

Not Guile @2:55 😭😭

What’s your favorite fighting game?

4:59 Other way around, Virtua Fighter 3 came out in the 1996 where as Tekken 4 came out in the early 2000's.

You don't need to double tap to evade. Just tap once quickly.. 😉😉

I don‘t remember if my first fighting game as a kid was Virtua Fighter 2 (on PC) or Tekken Tag. I loved them both but because we only had a PlayStation back then my siblings focused on Tekken. I played a lot of Tekken, however now I want to try out Virtua Fighter 4 Evo. I find the characters in VF overall more appealing. There may be no big story in the game but at least they didn‘t trash everything like Namco did after Tekken 4. Also, I like both the female and male characters in VF and that it‘s not mostly the females who are attractive looking. Really don’t like the Tekken males and there are way too many in comparison.

I may have missed it - but whenever I see these, no one ever talks about the analog buttons and that certain moves (especially from Lei-Fei) require the button to be pressed lighter and harder for different combos and attacks. Analog face buttons was a wierd thing that the PS2 only had and I don't believe any console has had it since. But VF4 used them - I believe Evolution removed it? But I'm not sure.

Funnily enough, the console port doesn't include all the content that the final arcade release of the game had.

There is a rumor about a revival coming soon Mere rumors

If this was the one on PS2 NOBODY wanted smoke with me on this game. I was a middle schooler making grown adults rage quit on this game. I used the monk and the drunken boxing guy and I knew all their moves in all stances. I’m not just talking about barely beating ppl. I would often beat ppl without getting hit whatsoever. I just “got” the game ever since I picked up the sticks

I bought tekken8, great game. But I have VF4 evolution on my ps3, it is still bert fighting, with VF 5 in my opinion ))

Virtua Fighter 4 feels like VF 3.5, it's weird. Did you know that they reanimated Jacky's animations to look more Bruce Lee esque?

VF4 EVO for modern consoles!

Anti aliasing... I think that you are getting some stuff wrong. Virtua Fighter 4 runs at 480i (interlaced), but some early PS2 games didn't apply special techniques to make a clearer image (think of Ridge Racer V or Tekken Tag 1's japanese version). I think that base VF4 suffers from this and that it was improved in VF4:Evo. Also my guy, consoles started using anti aliasing in the original Xbox and 7th generation of consoles, not in the PS2 (I think) If anything you'd get 480p if you were lucky.

Sega's most neglected IP. It's a shame.

Your claim was once accepted during the vf 1 and 2 era. I always found vf 1 and 2 were better games than tekken 1 and 2.

PS2 had just a weak hardware man... VF4 *Deserved* Better!

Hmm, that Sussy widescreen in the training stage. Did you record this in PCSX2 using a widescreen cheat?

bring jacked Vanessa back you cowards!

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Joel Perez like Vanessa Lewis

Joel Perez from USA 🇺🇸 virtua fighter 6

Nah. It was Tekken Tag Tournament on the Ps2

Not Guile @2:55 😭😭