It was an enormous weekend for Virtua Fighter followers, as two large bits of reports dropped. The primary, that Virtua Fighter 5 Revo can be coming to the Nintendo Change 2, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PlayStation 5 with crossplay assist and scrumptious rollback netcode. The second, that Wolf Hawkfield (aka horny Ganondorf) has been formally revealed for the upcoming Virtua Fighter 6.
Virtua Fighter 5 Revo, first launched on PC in January this 12 months, was a contemporary re-release of Virtua Fighter 5 with technical enhancements to raised facilitate worldwide on-line play. It carried out fairly darn properly for a near-20-year-old combating recreation, although clearly did not fairly hit the heights of a full cross-platform launch. This announcement of a wider rollout ought to hopefully treatment that for an excellent fighter.
Now, Wolf Hawkfield’s reveal is one thing completely new. His reveal trailer, launched throughout a Virtua Fighter Direct on Sunday, exhibits off a brand new design for the Canadian skilled wrestler. He is been a featured character in each Virtua Fighter recreation, and appears way more rugged than earlier iterations.
What’s attention-grabbing is that, in line with producer Riichio Yamada through the Virtua Fighter Direct, Virtua Fighter 6 will delve extra into the story and motivations of every character, so we must always discover out why Mr Hawkfield appears to be like the best way he does. He additionally provides that legacy characters like Wolf Hawkfield have been “refined for the trendy age”, so we must always anticipate equally drastic makeovers for any future returning characters.
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