Virtua Fighter Fans Hope the New Game Comes Close to Matching This Incredible In-Engine Concept Video

Sega has launched what it calls a “pre-development idea video” for Virtua Fighter 6, however made clear it doesn’t mirror how the upcoming combating recreation will look and play when it will definitely comes out.

The video, under, proven throughout Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech at CES 2025, options extremely practical and fluid animations for a combating recreation. We see an Akira mirror match with the form of fight often reserved for a martial arts film.

Rekindling reminiscences of Sony’s notorious Killzone 2 reveal E3 2005 trailer, this Virtual Fighter video is an idea solely, though it’s “in-engine.” The animations on show are past what we’ve seen from combating recreation gameplay in different titles, and the pace and fluidity of the motion is a step past regular combating recreation gameplay.

Sega, although, made clear that what we’re seeing right here shouldn’t be thought-about Virtua Fighter 6 gameplay, stressing: “Please notice that it is a idea video created earlier than growth started. The precise gameplay and characters could differ from what’s proven.”

Still, Virtua Fighter followers are excited by the return of the legendary sequence and the prospect that its visuals could strategy the extent we’re seeing on this idea video. “If they in some way handle to get the animations to look even remotely near this within the closing recreation, that’d be insane,” stated one fan. “Regardless, I’m excited.”

Virtua Fighter 6 is in growth at Yakuza / Like a Dragon studio Ryo Ga Gotoku and is with no launch window or goal platforms. Virtua Fighter hasn’t seen a mainline launch in years, leaving mini-game appearances in Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza video games and the 2021 launch of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown to tide followers over.

Virtua Fighter, which incorporates characters comparable to Akira Yuki, Pai Chan, and Wolf Hawkfield, is on the hardcore finish of the combating recreation spectrum, with slower-paced gameplay that challenges gamers to grasp its mechanics to be able to take pleasure in success. Virtua Fighter 5, which first launched in 2006, is taken into account one of many biggest combating video games of all time.

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