According to ESRB, this game contains: Animated Violence, Suggestive Themes
Parents have little to fear from Capcom Versus SNK. While the game has garnered a Teen rating, this is an old-school fighting game, meaning there's none of the blood and guts of games like Mortal Kombat. The violence in the game is more cartoonish than realistic, complete with throwing fireballs and the like.
2D fighting fans will want to grab this game immediately. 2D games are a dying breed, and this is easily one of the best ones to come out in recent memory.
Fighting fans will also want to give this title a look. While it's not as technically stunning as something like Soul Calibur, the action here is fast, furious, and fun.
Casual gamers will probably want to adopt a rent before you buy approach. The game is a lot of fun, but requires a fair amount of dedication in order to unlock all of the hidden goodies. Because the point system for the extras can be unforgiving, many will find that core game gets old in short order.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing gamers will miss out on the battle shouts and background music, but sound isn't all that important in this fighting game.
A film critic by trade, specializing in Euro-horror, cult exploitation, and Asian action cinema, Mike has written reviews for a diverse group of print and online publications. He covers horror news, movies, books, and games at TheHorrorGeek.com and Horrorsquad.com and spent two seasons as The Horror Geek on Comedy Central's pop-culture game show, Beat the Geeks.
Mike's childhood was spent playing videogames any time he got a chance. His parents had a Pong console and his grandmother had an Atari 2600, where Mike cultivated his skills by playing hour upon hour of games like Space Invaders, Berserk, and Asteroids. From those early experiences Mike learned one thing: he loved games.
In 1999, Mike became a staff reviewer at Cinescape Magazine's website where he spent a year learning the craft of game criticism. After internal changes led to Mike leaving Cinescape in late 2000, he joined up with RPGFan in 2001 and spent several years writing reviews for them. Happy, but looking for an opportunity to expound on a wider variety of titles, Mike joined GameCritics.com and hopes to help Chi, Dale, and the rest of the GC staff bring a higher level of respect to the field of game criticism.
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