Virtua Fighter 6's Combat Gameplay First Look Has Old Martial Arts Movie Vibes

Virtua Fighter 6 has its archetypal due gameplay video, and the warring crippled continues to look astonishing connected the graphics front.

Sega has lone released uncover videos and a tech demo for its upcoming 'New Virtual Fighter Project,' truthful this caller trailer, revealed during the EVO warring crippled tournament, shows america conscionable however awesome the visuals and animations are shaping up to beryllium successful existent gameplay.

We spot bid stalwart Akira, wearing an outfit fans of Donnie Yen’s Ip Man movie bid volition cognize well, going up against caller quality Stella connected the Training Stage.

In truth, the gameplay present doesn’t look that acold disconnected the eye-catching tech demo that was shown astatine Nvidia’s CES lawsuit successful January. At the time, Sega released what it called a “pre-development conception video” for Virtua Fighter 6, but made wide it did not bespeak however the upcoming warring crippled would look and play erstwhile it yet comes out.

The video, below, shown during Nvidia laminitis and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote code astatine CES 2025, features incredibly realistic and fluid animations for a warring game. We spot an Akira reflector lucifer with the benignant of combat usually reserved for a martial arts movie.

But this caller video, which Sega is calling a ‘Combat Gameplay First Look,’ shows buttery creaseless animations and chill transitions, with a slow-motion effect for whiffs that makes Virtua Fighter look overmuch much realistic than its warring crippled rivals.

“No infinite juggles, nary brainsick magic, nary anserine invincible ex, nary anserine rage art, nary spamming rage drive, absorption attacks etc. Just axenic fighting, I similar that,” commented 1 instrumentality connected YouTube.

“VF6 is feeling similar those aged martial arts films,” added another. “No thrust impact, nary vigor system, nary rev system, conscionable consecutive up hands. I cannot hold for this to drop.”

We bash spot immoderate benignant of debilitating effect successful the gameplay, wherever Stella appears to endure harm to her face, but wide it’s a precise clean, backmost to basics attack for video crippled fighting.

Stella emerged victorious implicit Akira successful the archetypal Virtua Fighter 6 gameplay video.

Virtua Fighter 6 is successful improvement astatine Yakuza / Like a Dragon workplace Ryo Ga Gotoku and is without a merchandise model oregon people platforms. Virtua Fighter hasn’t seen a mainline merchandise successful years, leaving mini-game appearances successful Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza games and the 2021 merchandise of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown to tide fans over.

Expect much connected the conflict strategy astatine the Tokyo Game Show successful September. There is nary merchandise day yet.

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