This article is an ongoing effort to catalogue every fighting title or series featured on Wikipedia. Versus fighters are categorized by close combat between two fighters or groups of fighters of comparable strength, often broken into rounds. If multiple players are involved, players generally fight against each other.
Note: Games are in listed in a "Common English Title/Alternate Title 'series' - Developer" format, where applicable.
[edit] 2D, 2.5D and 3D
Fighting games that use 2D sprites. Games tend to emphasize height based (high, medium, low) attacks and jumping.
2.5D versus fighting games are displayed in full 3D graphics, but the gameplay is based on 2D style games, or via traditional style
Utilize three dimensional movement. These often emphasize sidestepping.
[edit] Weapon-based
Adding melee weapons to a versus fighting game often makes attack range more of a factor.
[edit] Tag team-based
Fighting games that feature 'tag-teaming' as the core gameplay element. Other fighters feature tag-teaming as a separate mode.
- Dead or Alive series - Tecmo
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[edit] 4-way simultaneous fighting
Fighters in which four fighters face off at once simultaneously. However, some fighting games feature 4-way fighting as game modes.
- Bleach DS games
- Guilty Gear series
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[edit] Sports/fighting game sub-genres
Sports-based fighting games are titles that fall firmly within the definitions of both the Fighting game and Sports game genre, such as boxing and wrestling video games. As such, they are usually put in their own separate sub-genres. Often the fighting is far more realistic than in traditional fighting games (though the amount of realism can greatly vary), and many feature real-world franchises or fighters.
[edit] Boxing
Boxing games go back farther than any other kind of fighting game, starting with Sega's Heavyweight Champ in 1976. Fighters wear boxing gloves and fight in rings, and fighters can range from actual professional boxers to aliens to Michael Jackson.
[edit] Boxing management
Boxing games where combat is not directly human-controlled in the ring. Instead, a boxer is trained via a resource management game scheme, and bouts are directed via instructions given prior to each round.
[edit] Mixed martial arts
While most versus fighting games could be considered mixed martial arts games, listed here are games that are based on actual mixed martial arts franchises or tournaments. As such, they are unlikely to contain energy attacks, fatalities, or giant demon bees.
[edit] Wrestling
Wrestling games are either based on or have elements of professional wrestling, such as grappling and the wrestling ring itself.
[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment
Wrestling video games based on World Wrestling Entertainment WWE/WWF properties.
[edit] By theme
[edit] Crossover
Fighting games featuring characters from more than one franchise, be they from video games, comics or cartoons.
See also: Gaming Crossovers
Fighting eroge (erotic games). Fighting games with pornographic elements.
Fighters with a mecha or robot theme.
[edit] Monster
These games feature monsters as playable characters, usually set in destructable city environments.
Fighting games with RPG elements, like character building or variable storylines.
[edit] Super deformed
Super deformed refers to a popular type of Japanese caricature where the subject is made to have exaggerated toddler-like features, such as an over-sized head and short chubby limbs. Their movements and expressions while super deformed also tend to be exaggerated.
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