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Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation

Many years ago, King Muscle and the legendary Muscle League saved the people of Earth by battling against an evil horde of villains who were attempting to conquer the planet. After 28 years, the evil villains…

80 22 November 2002 ESRB T

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation is a fighting developed by AKI Corporation, released 22 November 2002 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation is

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation is a fighting game developed by AKI Corporation and released in 2002. It was published by Bandai. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Many years ago, King Muscle and the legendary Muscle League saved the people of Earth by battling against an evil horde of villains who were attempting to conquer the planet. After 28 years, the evil villains have returned, but this time the "Legends" can't fight them alone. They need help from a whole new group of younger super-heroes - the New Generation. Now, the wise and experienced trainer of both generations, Meat, has decided to pit the two generations against each other to decide once and for all which generation is the strongest of all time.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Ultimate Muscle series

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation is the tenth of 20 entries we hold in the Ultimate Muscle series. It arrived 8 months after Kinnikuman Nisei: Dream Tag Match. The next entry was Kinnikuman Nisei: Choujin Seisenshi in 2003.

See all 20 Ultimate Muscle games in release order →

How it was received

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation launched on 22 November 2002, within three weeks of Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

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When did Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation come out?
Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation was released on 22 November 2002 for Nintendo GameCube.

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