Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown
The fifth entry in SEGA's fighting game series. Once again, the real-time level of visual detail and character animation has been upped to the most advanced levels, with next-generation lighting and detail on…
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is a fighting developed by Sega AM2, released 29 July 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Arcade.
What Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is a fighting game developed by Sega AM2 and released in 2010. It was published by Sega Corporation. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Virtua Fighter 5 is a fighting video game developed and published by Sega. It is the fifth installment of the Virtua Fighter series. The original version was released in July 2006 on the Sega Lindbergh arcade system board with a number of updates before home ports were released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2007. The first major update was Virtua Fighter 5 R (2008), followed by Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (2010), with the latter ported to home systems in 2012. A version which also serves both remastered of Final Showdown and final update to the sub-series was released under the respective titles Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown for PlayStation 4 and Japanese arcades in 2021, and…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Virtua Fighter series
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is the 15th of 30 entries we hold in the Virtua Fighter series. The next entry was Arcade Nano Virtua Fighter 2 in 2010. Its critic score of 83 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Virtua Fighter 4 at 97.
How it was received
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown launched on 29 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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