Namco Vs. Sega -- the future of fighting is in your hands!

by Nick Doerr { Feb 22nd 2007 at 11:00AM }

Haruki Suzaki, director of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, sat down for an interview with IGN recently. While we'd love to talk about that game, there's something else of greater interest in the interview. Something called... beautiful. By a show of hands, who here would like to play the hell out of a "Tekken vs. Virtua Fighter" title? Would they call it Namco vs. Sega? Either way, that would be a fantastic crossover idea. But is it possible?

Suzaki said this about the idea: "I had the opportunity to speak with the director of Virtual Fighter on many occasions in the past and actually talk of collaboration came up again recently. Being from the same industry, this is something we definitely would like to try at least once. Looking at it from another perspective, we began to realize that it would actually be more difficult to make this happen than we first thought. More than anything, we believe this decision greatly lies in our fans. So, we would actually like to ask for our fans' opinion on this."

He wants to know what we think, guys! IGN wants you to send your request for a T vs. VF to their email address and they'll forward it to Sega and Namco. I did it and you guys should too! If they did a two-man tag team style, what would your dream team be? Go, go, go! This is our chance to be heard!

[thank you very much, Joe!]

Tags: Namco, Playstation 3, Playstation3, PS3, Sega, Sony, Tekken, Virtua FIghter, VirtuaFighter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

jason @ Feb 22nd 2007 1:05PM

If they do a Tekken vs virtua Fighter game, that would be beyond awesome.

shase @ Feb 22nd 2007 11:56AM

I am still waiting for Sammy Vs Capcom...

aragorn @ Feb 22nd 2007 3:30PM

as far as I'm concerned, they're both awful. inuntuitive, horribly animated, stiff controls, floaty physics, and just plain bad.

Don't get me wrong, I love my fighting games, but how these guys became king of the genre... I have no idea.

Jay @ Feb 22nd 2007 4:04PM

i jsut got vf5 yesterday.....lol if u think this game has bad physics and is unintuitive then you are an idiot

this game is amazing...and im not even a big fighting game fan

Jay @ Feb 22nd 2007 3:50PM

and the graphics on this game are incredible by the way...only thing missing is the environments where u can fight in diffrent areas

Ted Nemeth @ Feb 23rd 2007 12:09AM

Gee, aragorn, What fighters do you like? DOA, Street Fighter,Guilty Gear, KOF? I have played them all since the beginning. VF is the best, hands down. Animation is awesome, control-perfect, balance-perfect. Why do you think they have major contests on this game in Japan? The only fighter that ever approached VF is Street Fighter, but 2-D is pretty much dead. The number of moves taken from actual martial arts forms creates a fighter that is beyond all others.
That's the problem with Tekken vs. VF- for every one attack in Tekken, VF has 20.

Brandon @ Feb 25th 2007 1:35AM

Thats not nessecarily true Ted, if youve ever flipped through a Tekken stategy guide (as opposed to assuming that the moves listed in the in game command list are all there is) you would see that each character has a very large number of moves.

I like both for different reasons, but I Prefer tekken simply because the pacing. VF is deep but it can be a bit bland at times, with the realism getting in the way of the fun. Tekken is faster, and a little more visually entertaining without being over the top. I mean, after all it IS a video game, part of the appeal is the fact its beyond what you yourself can do.