So Much Fun!

A true classic! One of the best fighting games of all time in my opinion! I never get tired of playing this game!

Love Marvel vs. Capcom 2? You'll love this game too!

Pros:

- Fast paced
- Flashy super moves
- 2 characters per team, 3rd characters acts as assist only
- The team hyper moves are actually a bit better than in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 in my opinion.
- Combo system allows for many consecutive hits
- Colorful levels; more comic book looking than Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- 6 different characters to unlock
- Great cast of characters
- Will keep you entertained for hours, day, weeks, and possibly even months.
- Two player mode will keep you entertained for years!
- The Dreamcast version of this game is much better than the PlayStation version. They removed tag team fighting from the PlayStation version due to its memory limitation. That takes a lot of fun out of the game.

Cons:

- If any, it would be for there to be more characters. Considering when it was released, it does have a very large character line-up.

Fun and Fast Gameplay!!

You pick from 15 characters

Ryu,Strider,Mega Man,Zangief,Morrigan,Captain Commando, Captain America
Spider Man,Venom,Jin,Hulk,Wolverine,Chun Li,Gambit,War Machine

Onslaught is the boss in this game

Akuma,Ken and Onslaught are playable with a code

This game is fun and has hyper fast gameplay.The game has 15 characters which is not that much,but it is made up in fast,nice gameplay.Some people whine about the graphics and say its "bad" and compare it to Tekken, those games are not in the same category.The 2d games are drawn and 3d games are polygon based graphics they are different types of things.The Dreamcast joystick is no longer made,but still want to play the game?, I got a solution,get a Playstation 1/2 adapter and buy a ps2 or Psone joystick and then have fun just like the Arcade.

I recommend this game to people who like the other cross over games like X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter. This version is the best because its arcade perfect and its to pick up and play when you feel like fighting your heroes.

Pros: Fast gameplay, Great graphics, awesome characters,fun to play,pull off huge combos,when using the arcade stick enhances gameplay

Cons: not enough characters, dreamcast controller not good for this game, 2d graphics not for everyone

Not a picture perfect port.

While this is the only good port to any of the Marvel vs. game prior to MVC2, this game still has a few problems in comparision to just playing a CPS2 ROM.


First off, the sound is god awful. Everything from this game sounds like it's coming from a small FM Radio with nearly dead batteries from the other end of a long tunnel. It's that bad. Not to mention that there are a few sound glitches where some of the sound effects don't even play for a few moments. So, for example, you periodically won't hear Ryu yell, "Hadoken" for a short period of time. But the sound doesn't make the game, the controls do. And that's my next gripe.

Unless you are on an Aracde Stick, you'll have a harder time playing this game then you would on a keyboard. Not only does this game not support the analog stick, but the control pad isn't very responsive at all. And no, it's not the controller. I've played KOF 98 and 99, Street Fighter 3: Double Impact, and Soul Calibur 1 all on the same controller. And I haven't had nearly as many problems with the controls on those games as I've had here. Not to mention, you have shoulder buttons for the FP and FK. In MVC2, you won't mind shoulder buttons because that game has a 4 button layout with FP and FK used almost souly for calling the helpers. MVC1 still has the 6 button layout as its other Capcom brothers. Meaning a standard Dreamcast controller isn't very suitable for a fast paced game such as this. Every nanosecond counts in this game and you can't have sluggish shoulder buttons slowing you down. Street Fighter 3 and Alpha can get away with it, but not this game. In short, get a Mad Catz Dreampad or some sort of Aracde Stick if you're going to get this game.

Single player also gets rather dull pretty quickly. This game is meant for competition as far as I'm concerned. Casual players will enjoy this game, but the computer is either very easy or very hard and there isn't much middle ground.


On the plus end, the game itself is completely intact from the CPS2 version. And it even has the added Onslaught Mode after you unlock all the hidden fighters. It also has a 4 player tag battle mode as well. And that is probably the main reason to get this game. I, myself, play 4 player tag battle with MAME on Kaillera all the time and I have a blast. But for those of you that don't believe in emulation and have 3 friends around, this is just as good.

All in all, this is one of those party games that's good for playing at an Anime/Video Game convention, for instance. And while most people sing praises about MVC2, MVC1 is a very solid and competitive game. The characters are quite unbalanced. But it doesn't seem to hinder the game in the least bit. Sans the small rooster of characters, this can be considered supieror to MVC2 in certain ways. Pick it up if you have some friends around. You'll have a blast.

You can use ONSLAUGHT as a selectable character

There are secret ways to unlock alternate versions of some of the characters, and even unlock Onslaught. You'll have to beat the game using certain techniques. In order to beat the game very easily, I personally found it best to use Ryu and Venom on Easy mode. Use them to beat the game multiple times and you'll be able to unlock all of the secret characters.

PROS:
1) The vibration feedback is extremely sensitive !!! You feel every bump and hit that you give your opponent.
2) There is an Easy mode, which strangely is not in MvC part 2. The Easy mode allows you to use Chun Li's lighting fast kicks.
3) There are a few super moves that are not in MvC part 2. Like Chun Li's has four supers in this game, while she has only three in part 2.

CONS:
1) There is a little slow-down with a few characters like War Machine and Strider. These characters move a lot faster in MvC part 2.
2) You can not select the same person twice. In MvC part 2, you are allowed to select the same person so you may have a team of three Akumas or whomever else.

Overall, it's a great game, and I urge you to buy it even if you already own MvC part 2. I own both games and love them equally.