Cake Bash
Cake Bash is an Adventure, Beat-em-up, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by High Tea Frog for multiple platforms. Throughout the game, the player has to pick his desired cake and battle in plenty of arenas having multiple goals. While playing the game, the player views the environment from an isometric angle.
In solo mode, the player faces AI opponents and can use items founded in the playfield, but in the multiplayer co-op mode, the player forms a party of four players that can share resources. The game offers plenty of items for the player’s help to smash enemies such as lollypop, baking sodas, etc.
The game has an online leaderboard where the player can score high to be on the top of the leaderboard. The player finds many challengers online that will test the player’s skills. On completion of dilly quests, the player can receive rewards and earn achievements for a better rank. The game has core features such as Achievements, Simple Gameplay, Leaderboard, Online Challengers, and Multiple Power-ups.
#1 The King of Fighters ’99
The King of Fighters ’99 is an Arcade, Beat-em-up, Fighting, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by SNK. As a sequel to The King of Fighters ’98, the player finds the same gameplay to follow and fighting scenarios to adopt. The big change is the four-member team instead of three, where three characters are the fighters, and the fourth one is for additional help.
The fourth character is called a striker that the player can summon during battles in order to help the rest of the characters by performing special moves against the opponents. But use the striker carefully as it can only be summoned a limited number of times during a single match.
The game has a single playable mode where the player fills their power gauge by attacking the opponent or performing special moves. An interesting fact is a reward/score given to the player depending on the performance when the fight is finished. Moreover, there are two powered-up states the player possesses during the battle that are Counter Mode and Armor Mode.
#2 Fatal Fury 2
Fatal Fury 2 is an Arcade, Fighting, Beat-em-up, and Single-player video game developed by SNK. It serves as the sequel to the Fatal Fury game that appears with improved graphics and gameplay. The controls have been modified with the provision of four button configurations that can be used for attacks such as Light Punch, Light Kick, Strong Punch, and Strong Kick. Moreover, the fighter can also dash back from the opponent to reattack by tapping the lever backward twice.
The player can move freely across the adjacent plane by hitting the light punch and light kick buttons simultaneously. Another change is the launch of a power attack that can knock the opponent to the other plane. In some of the stages, the player will find hazards such as electrified wires, angry bulls, etc. The game consists of eight unique characters that have been borrowed from the last entry.
#3 The King of Fighters 2002
The King of Fighters 2002 is a Beat-em-up, Fighting, Arcade, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game offered by SNK. It is the sequel to The King of Fighters 2001 game and offers the player to jump into the beat-em-up action with additional modes and enhanced features. 4×4 match has been discarded and replaced with 3×3 battle format where two teams of three members can come against one another.
Power Gauge carries out the same scenario, such as if it gets filled, the player can attack the opponent or performs special moves during a battle. The game also supports MAX super special moves, super moves that can only be performed during MAX Activation. At the screen’s top, the player finds the time meter and health of the characters. The King of Fighters 2002 game has core features such as 3×3 Battle Mode, Arcade Mode, Power Gauge, and Super Special Moves.
#4 Fighting Vipers
Fighting Vipers is a 3D, Fighting, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Sega. Unlike other fighting games, the player follows the beat-em-up gameplay where the mission is to use a punch and kick buttons to generate combo moves and kick the rivals out. This game has three extra buttons for three smaller combos.
Playback Mode and Training Mode have been added newly wherein the training session; the player can train himself whereas, in the playable mode, the player has to go through an endless level filled with enemies. It is possible to save the matches and play them again in Playback Mode.
The game has nine characters where each character has its rare armor that can be broken off by opponents. The player can knock their opponent even straight through the walls by generating a strong knockout attack. Fighting Vipers has core features such as Nine characters, Knockout Attacks, Two Modes, and Beat-em-up Gameplay.
#5 Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV is an Arcade, Fighting, Single-player and Multiplayer video game for multiple platforms developed by Dimps and published by Capcom. The game takes place several months after the event of the previous title. It introduces focus attack, letting the player perform extra moves during the battle. There are multiple characters available from which the player needs to define his playable and participate in multiple stages of the battle against an opponent. Each character in the game has its unique abilities, personality, and fighting style. Both fighters in the stage equipped with their health bar and must struggle to perform combos and beat each other to decrease the health bar until reaches to zero. It takes place in the three-dimensional environment and introduces twenty-five fighters. The new elements in the game, offering the multiple challenges for newcomers as well as the advanced fighters. Street Fighter IV offers core features such as HD Stylized Characters and Environments, Six-Button Gameplay, New Moves, Global Online Gameplay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#6 The King of Fighters ’98: Ultimate Match
The King of Fighters ’98: Ultimate Match is an Action-Adventure, Fighting, and Single-player video game developed by SNK. All through the game, the player takes on the role of a fighter whose main task is to battle his way through many stages and become the top best fighter.
In this beat-em-up adventure, two players engage in a fight where the player with remaining health wins. Each character has limited health, and the player’s goal is to eliminate the wellbeing of the rival first to claim victory. The game has a series of characters, and each character has his unique skills and attributes to outlast the rivals.
Every fight has a restricted time limit and within that limit, any of the participants has to claim victory. If the time runs out, the player with the highest remaining power will be the winner. The game offers a player match mode where the fighter can challenge any friend to see the best of all.
#7 Street Fighter
Who isn’t familiar with the names of Legendary Characters of Ken, Ryu, Chun Li, Blanka, and Dhalsim from the Legendary Street Fighter video games. Almost everybody have played a game from this fantastic series and the ones who have played any Street Fighter games, are fans for life. Talking about the Street Fighter video game, Street Fighter is a 1987’s fantastic hit Fighting Video game developed and published by the Legendary Japanese video game company Capcom. The game is very first installment of the globally popular video game series “Street Fighter” and it is available to play on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and various other gaming consoles. Street Fighter offers characters from various locations of the world such as Japan, U.S. China, Canada, Thailand and Brazil, etc. Throughout the game, Street Fighter offers a highly competitive and challenging gameplay in which it allows two players to fight against each other, blast the opponents with fantastic combinations of attacks and whoever depletes the opponent’s health bar, wins the game. It allows the players to play the game against each other or with the Game AI (Artificial Intelligence), keep on defeating the opponents and after winning, move to next round of the game. Just like the fighter characters, Street Fighter offers competitive matches on various locations of the game world and allows the players to defeat the opponents and enjoy the game. With a variety of characters, and their special fighting abilities, fighting styles and all the blasting action and thrill, Street Fighter is one of the best ever Fighting games till date and is known as the trend setter for this particular genre.