4th May 2004, 10:38 AM
VF isn't about pulling off super long and complex button combos. You can use them, but you can just as easily beat someone with very simple button combos if you know how to parry, counter, dodge, etc. It's much more like real fighting than Street Fighter is. I'm really bad at memorizing long combos which is why I've never been a hardcore Street Fighter fan, but with VF where fighting is much more like real life fighting than any other game is, I am much better at it. The focus of real fighting is countering your opponent's moves, finding their weakness and striking where appropriate. It's true that you can usually find a pattern to easily beat the CPU or people who use pattern of their own, but if you fight against someone who knows how the game should be played, you can have a very fun, unpredictable match. Now of course, no video game could be just like fighting in real life as there is simply no control device available that can simulate it, but Virtua Fighter is as close as video games have gotten. It's much easier to recreate driving than fighting.