Top 5 Fighting Games Ever

Where Does Your Favorite Fighter Rank? Does it Rank at All?

Over the last 15 years or so, we've seen a huge amount of fighting games. Mainly in the arcade where they became the most famous Fighting games are the games you would skip school to go to the arcade and play. There have been some bad, there have been some good, there have been some great. But there have also been the ones that are better then great, the ones that really influenced the genre for the better. This is what that list is for. It's for those top 5 fighters that were not only great, but groundbreaking and bringing in many newcomers into the fighting game genre.

5. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New age of Heroes(DC)
Spiderman, Wolverine, and The Incredible Hulk vs. Ken, Ryu and T. Bonne. Don't expect to find this fight anywhere else except this game (series). This game had to be one of the best arcade fighters since Street Fighter II. You've got the chance to pit over 50 characters against each other, from two great companies in Capcom and Marvel, It just doesn't get any better then that. It's exciting fast paced 3 vs.3 gameplay, and simple control scheme, made it easy to pick and play this game, but very difficult to master. That's how you make great fighters.

4. Super Smash Bros. Melee(GC)
Arguably the best "party game" of all time. This game gave more sleepless nights for my friends and I then most likely, any other game. Super Smash is a helluva drug. The game was deep, it had great graphics, it was fun. I mean how enjoying is it to beat the crap out of Jigglypuff? It's very different from the traditional fighting game, with your goal being to get your opponents percentage up and knock him off the map, and being that it was 4 players, instead of 2. This was very much welcomed though. Especially when you were able to pick so many characters from Nintendo's history, such as Mario, Link, and Picachu. It was a very simple concept, as with the controls that made it easy to play, but it also made it so that it was difficult to master. Which is why it was so great, and the best selling game for the gamecube. Many games have since then tried to duplicate the Super Smash bros. formula, unfortunately though, none of those games have been able to compare.