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Title: World Heroes (via World Heroes Anthology)
System: Playstation 2
Genre: Fighting
The premise of World Heroes sounds like a brilliant idea for a fighting game on paper, grab some of the greatest warriors from history (or at least caricatures of them) and throw them into one on one fights to the death. Sadly, as great as this premise is, the developers at Alpha Denshi just weren't able to do much with it. The game's story sees a scientist, Dr. Brown, doing exactly what I explained above, bringing together the greatest warriors in history in order to determine which of them is history's greatest warrior. Sadly the game suffers from a multitude of problems that prevent it form becoming something that gamers will always remember.
Beginning with the game's controls, the gameplay feels stiff and there seems to be some amount of input lag when performing input for movies. I admit that this could be caused by playing the game as part of the World Heroes Anthology, however, it still causes issues with the gameplay as it makes it difficult to fight well against the game's AI, especially on the higher difficulty. Sadly, the stiff controls are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the game's problems, as the game's presentation is simply not up to par with other games of the time. Character sprites are large, but look a little blurry and most of the designs are less than memorable. It's not hard to see why many of the characters were left out of future SNK compilations, like Neo Geo Battle Colosseum. The audio is also less than memorable, where a game like Street Fighter II had very memorable tunes that I would find myself humming or whistling even more than twenty years after the games release, however I would be hard pressed to remember a single piece of sound from this game.
Ultimately, World Heroes came out at an awkward time to be a fighting game. Dropping after the release of Street Fighter II, but before Mortal Kombat, it really just got lost in the shuffle, but due to its stiff controls, a forgettable cast, and an unimpressive presentation it's not hard to see why the arcade crowd in the nineties felt their quarters were best spent elsewhere. This game is interesting as nothing more than a curiosity to fans of the genre, and I could see no reason for anyone else to dust off this relic.
Rating 2 / 10 (Awful) ![]() ![]()
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