If you’ve played (or even seen) recent fighter Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and thought, well, that character art sure is lovely, I wonder where I can get high-res versions of them all, you’ve got taste.
Real men (and women) who play games (well, fighting games) don’t use control pads. Those are for children. Real men (and women) use sticks. And some of the best around are HORI’s sticks.
A while back at the Tokyo Games Show 2011, Capcom and Sony announced that a portable version of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 would be debuting for the PlayStation Vita. Since then, we suspected that there’d be some interoperability between the handheld and home consoles. Last week, Capcom’s Seth Killian could only coyly tease such a possibility when asked by Stephen Totilo. But the remote control method’s been confirmed by the Street Fighter publisher today, along with new screens of the Vita version of UMvC3.
Hey, fighting game fans, hope you didn’t delete your save files from the pre-Ultimate version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Because playing as the big bad from MvC3 in UMvC3 is significantly easier if you’ve still got that data on your console’s hard drives.
The Assist Me guys continue their in-depth looks at the new fighters coming to the Ultimate update to Capcom’s crossover, with the spotlight turning to the Devil May Cry series’s doppelganger half-demon Vergil and Nova, Marvel’s cosmic champion.
One might ask, does Capcom really need to revisit the work of Marvel vs Capcom 3, which came out in February, in the form of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, due out next month? Capcom special consultant Seth Killian justifies the new title by saying that the development team’s gone back under the hood and re-balanced all of the characters, so that it is essentially like an all-new game.
The biggest applause in the panels that Capcom held for their upcoming fighting games came for the introduction of the blue-suited hero of the Ace Attorney games. During the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 panel, special consultant and fighting game expert Seth Killian talked about how the development team tried to make the unlikely placement of the barrister into a brawling game.
Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 introduces twelve new characters to the MVC3 roster. Capcom has only (technically) revealed four, and here they are kicking each other’s arses.