My Top Four Brawlers

The first thing I do when looking for a fighting game is how it brings my friends together. Especially when 'drinks' are being passed after a couple of sips each. The roar of losing and the overwhelming feeling of just having to rub it in is always great, upon victory. 'Trash talking' is one of the aspects of brawlers I most look forward to. Those close frantic battles when you start as noobs or even closer, defend and attack battles, after you've chosen the character to try and master. Making the trash talking all that more relevant, and while anticipating the next bout. Giving them a chance, well, a small chance, to exact revenge.

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition is easily one the best fighting games ever produced. For me, up there with Tekken 6, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of two worlds, in no particular order, since I play them for different reasons. I'll be talking about my experience with all four titles here, with hopefully some sense of why I play them and why I love them all, individually.

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition

Although very similar to (what many fans call) Mortal Kombat 9 (MK) with no real surprise considering they're created by the same developers, NetherRealm Studios, it's an incredibly polished fighting game. With an engrossing story line, fantastic tactical fighting, over the top Super moves and with the inclusion of multi-tiered interactive backgrounds it's enough to stand apart from It's big brother. Nothing but DC characters is of course the main difference, however, it's not the only reason it sets the two apart.

Becoming submerged in the story was easy as it plays like a movie and is something we can expect to happen in the DC universe. Best of all, it takes nothing away from the great writing and acting of all those involved.

Being a huge DC fan, I absolutely loved the story, it felt like a movie, a story mode I could watch/play again and again, and feel just as excited to see my favourite heroes as I did the first time, much like Justice League: Doom, The Flash Point Paradox or The Dark Knight Returns, part 1 and 2. All amazing movies, the Injustice story arc would join those as equals even though it's a game.

Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition

I personally enjoyed the great story telling in Mortal Kombat, it reinvented MK's complete history much like JJ Abrahms did with Star Trek in 2009. The Komplete Edition giving players the chance to enjoy the full rooster straight from the word 'Fight'. My favourite character being Kenshi, this impressive fighter being tricked into claiming a powerful and mystical sword which it's power turned him blind. Nothing worse then getting beat by a guy who can't see, I would scream.

I Hate Shao Khan with a passion, my apologies, I had to get that off my chest, that final inevitable fight is so annoying, he almost felt unbeatable and I was pretty close to throwing my controller out the window and not just smashing it to pieces on the floor. Looking back at it now though, it was kind of cool because the boss is the boss for a reason!

Tekken 6

I never played the story mode, this title from Namco Bandai Games was always a Mano-a-Mano to the last man competition between me and a group of friends. Some of my best memories are of me winning the last, not so famous, Tekken Tuesday tournament on Tekken 5, around CageTheElephants house back when they lived in London. I still have the Trophy! Reigning champ!

Trying to carry on that tradition I only play this in Versus mode, it's a wonderful fighter with a vast array of characters and fighting styles. No real in game specials, just an out an out martial arts brawl. Fan favourites, like the immortal Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan depicted as Marshall/Forest Law and Lei Wulong included. A great homage to both immortals. It was at the time, the complete fighting experience. I was the complete killing machine with Asuka Kazama towards the end of being transfixed to this amazingly mostly realistic game.

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

This just had to be included. Again, I never played the story mode, can't even remember if this had one. Absolutely loved the 3 on 3 action, over the top super moves and even the graphics was pretty intense. Having never learnt the combo's never seemed a problem as I do what probably most of the gaming world does whenever picking up a fighting game similar to this, throw Street Fighter moves and see what happens. Capcom Eighting did a fantastic job bringing this series back 11 years after the much adored, Marvel vs Capcom 2: Age of new heroes by Capcom Backbone Entertainment.

To add fuel to an everlasting fire, I personally was always more Mortal Kombat then Street fighter. Street fighter never felt like a skill game, button bashing noobs could kick almost anyone off their podiums, unless you mastered the game. Not a true contest. Lol

I'd love to hear what fighting games you loved, whether that be Fight night, MMA, Soul Caliber, WWE or even one from the Dragonball Z series.

What's your top four?

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xC4Lx aka xCursed4Lifex