Dark Earth (video game)
Dark Earth (video game) is an Action-Adventure, Fighting, and Single-player video game developed by Kalisto Entertainment. Throughout the game, the player assumes the role of an unnamed protagonist, where the main focus is to collect items and weapons through the game’s world. The game has a variety of enemies, and the player has to engage in melee combats.
While fighting enemies, the player views the environment from a third-person perspective. The player can use the weapons until they break, and he can expand the weapon’s collection. The majority of the weapons have improvised features and can enhance them. A few guns have an equally limited amount of ammo that makes the guns good for a limited time. The protagonist must scavenge for food, as it can heal the wounds.
As time progresses, the player begins to transform into a new creature where his physical appearance and dialog choices change. The core features of the game are Third-person Perspective, Multiple Weapons, Limited Ammo, Melee Attacks, and Food Scavenge.
#1 Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters is an Adventure, Arcade, Fighting, and Single-player video game developed by Capcom. It is the sequel to the Mega Man game and offers the same gameplay to follow with new features. Unlike its original title, the game has three stories to play, and all the stories have different enemies to fight.
The game has many playable characters such as Mega Man, Proto Man, Bass, and Duo. The game lets the player choose the stages, and if he gets stuck on a particular scene, the game offers some hints about the monsters’ weaknesses. Each of the characters can perform a special attack, which gets executed by releasing a full meter charge.
All the characters have special abilities such as Mega Man has Mega Upper unique ability. Similarly, Proto Man’s special move is Proto Strike, which allows him to shoot a short-ranged but massive burst of energy, and Bass has an unusual move toward Crescent Kick to perform a somersaulting kick. The duo can slam the enemy down through Giant Knuckle.
#2 X-Men: Next Dimension
X-Men: Next Dimension is an Adventure, Fighting, and Single-player video game developed by Activision. In this beat-em-up game, the player has to kill the opponent by performing strong attacks and combos. The gameplay is simple, where the player has to move the character and perform kicking or punching by pressing the buttons.
The game features a combo system such as regular chain attacks, air juggles, and air launchers. The blocking system allows the players to block the enemy’s attack and make it lockable to re-attack. The counter-attacks are specific to the type of attack a player is countering. The player can access special and super attacks where different types of super attacks are there, and each one has four levels of power.
The story mode has limited characters for each battle, whereas arcade mode allows the player to select any character from a series of fighters. The Versus Mode has unlocked characters available, and a survival mode is a mode where the fighter faces endless computer-controlled opponents until the player’s health meter gets zero.
#3 Guilty Gear XX Λ Core
Guilty Gear XX Λ Core is an Adventure, Fighting, 2D, and Single-player video game developed by Arc System Works for multiple platforms. Throughout the game, the player takes on the role of a battler, where the primary mission is to fight the enemies. The player can use Gatling combos to deplete the opponent’s health by a significant margin.
The health is the main asset for the player, so he must maintain the health to stay in action for a long time. The game has 25 main playable characters where every character has many skills but some weaknesses. As the player makes progress, he can convert the player’s weak points into abilities. The game has many playable modes such as survival mode, training mode, mission mode, and PVP mode.
In the mission mode, the player has to complete the assigned tasks, survival mode requires the player’s survival until the energy approaches zero, and PVP mode is a challenging mode for skills testing. The core features of the game are Multiple Playable Modes, Health Meter, and Numerous Characters.
#4 Touhou 10.5 – Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Touhou 10.5 – Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is a Fighting, Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Team Shangai Alice. Throughout the game, the player has to fight against enemies with a strong deck of cards. The game has multiple endings, depending on the cards and abilities he has in the deck. The player must have offensive and defensive cards to claim victories.
All the cards have three categories, such as System Cards, Skill Cards, and Spell Cards. System Cards include bombs that knock the enemy back and change the weather. Skill Cards upgrade the special attacks to do more damage and allow the player to gain more power. Spell Cards generate powerful attacks that automatically work after activation.
The game has multiple characters such as Reimu Hakurei, Sakuya Izayoi, Youmu Konpaku, Marisa Kirisame, Remilia Scarlet, and many others. The player fights in different weathers such as River Mist having a normalized distance between opponents, Spring Haze, where the players cannot use any melee attacks but can use special moves, and many other kinds of weather.
#5 BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Portable
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Portable is a Fighting, Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Arc System Works. Throughout the game, the player engages in a duel where only two characters are in front of one another, and everyone struggles to be the winner. The game consists of rounds, and one match has almost five rebels.
To win a round, a player must incapacitate the other by damaging him through various attacks. The player has also reduced the opponent’s health to zero before the clock runs out. Every character has a weak, medium, and strong attack where the player can upgrade these attacks over time.
A unique technique is there from which the player can perform such an action that the opponent lays down with one hit. A combo is two or more consecutive attacks, and as combos become longer, each attack will do less damage than normal to retaliate the opponent. Along with attacks, every character has two types of the block such as one is the regular block, and the other is barrier block.
#6 Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a Fighting, Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by nWay. Throughout the game, the player serves as a fighter, where the mission is to compete in battle with different fighting styles and special attacks. The player has to select teams of three characters to engage in one-on-one combat where he can switch between them at any point during the match.
After eliminating all three opposing teammates, the game declares the finisher as a winner. The player can perform ultra-attacks to lay down the opponents quickly. Ranked Online, Arcade, Versus, Casual Arcade, Training, and Tutorial modes are the playable ones. In the tutorial mode, it gets easy for the player to understand the characters and their play-styles.
The game has multiple characters with special powers such as Jason Lee with Red Ranger Dragon Shield, Ann Hart having Ranger Slayer, and many others. The game has online leaderboards where the player has to focus on the top position by completing the quests and battles.
#7 Last Bronx
Last Bronx is an Action-Adventure, Fighting, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Sega AM3. During the gameplay, the player has to fight against the AI foes using different characters. It has several characters with different abilities and combat-skills, such as Yusaku Kudo, Joe Inagaki, Saburo Zaimoku, Toru Kurosawa, and many others.
Two rounds are there in each match where the player with more remaining health wins, and each round has a 30-seconds limit. The player can use three attacks, such as Kick, Punch, and Guard, to take the opponents down on the battlefield. All the stages are set in Tokyo city in closed territories with no ring outs, but the characters can bounce on the boundaries.
While fighting, the player can block the opponent’s attack by using guard ability and can use a feint attack called Attack Cancel. The player can dodge and use a stealth approach to deceive the opponents on the battlefield. In the multiplayer mode, the player can challenge a friend to be the top best fighter. The core features of the Last Bronx game are Multiplayer Mode, Three Attacks, Defense, Stealth, and Short-time Gameplay.
#8 Marvel Super Heroes
Marvel Super Heroes is a Fighting, Action, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Capcom. The game contains all the characters from the Marvel Comics line, and the main objective of the player is to fight against the villains of Marvel Universe.
The player can select any desired character from the available one where each character has specific ability and skills to beat the villains. The player can use these abilities and unique moves to defeat the opponents on the battlefield, and the player with more winning rounds or more remaining power will be the winner of the game.
Infinity combo attack allows the player to perform special combos, and as the super meter fills, the player can use the combos many times. The player can grab the infinity gems dropped by the antagonists in the battlefield or earn by completing the missions.
By utilizing these gems in the fight, the player will get improved impacts for a short time; for example, enhanced force or defense or extra assaults and certain characters will get additional advantages. Marvel Super Heroes has core features, such as Gems, Infinity Combo Attack, Abilities, Several Characters, and Dangerous Enemies.
#9 Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge is an Arcade, Fighting, Action, Single and Multiplayer video game offered by CAPCOM. It serves as the second main installment in the Darkstalkers’ fighting series with offering the same gameplay to the previous release. Throughout the gameplay, the player fights against plenty of enemies to be the top best fighter.
The primary feature of this game is the capacity for the player to store the Special gauge and the safeguard. Two types of Super Moves are there in the game, such as ES Specials that requires a small portion of the Special gauge, and EX Specials that requires an entire load of the Special gauge.
The game has two new playable characters, such as Donovan Baine and Hsien-Ko, with special moves and abilities. It also introduces chain combos that will help the player to decrease the opponent’s power in a short time. The major features of the game are Two New Playable Characters, Chain Combo, Two Super Moves, and Multiplayer Mode.
#10 Art of Fighting Anthology
Art of Fighting Anthology is a Fighting, Beat-em-up, Arcade, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by SNK. Throughout the gameplay, the player will come to face plenty of opponents and battles against them to be the best fighter all around. The game allows the player to play 1×1 mode where a player battles either against the AI character or challenge a player.
The game has plenty of characters with different moves and combat-styles. It permits the player to perform two attacks, such as punch and kick, and also some unique moves, such as super attacks. The player’s spirit gauge becomes weaker as the character performs special techniques.
The desperation attack offered by the game helps the player to get the opponent’s power lower, and the player uses to attack when the health bar is getting lessoning. In the multiplayer mode, the player challenges a friend to fight and be an ultimate fighter. The core features of the game are 1×1 Mode, Several Characters, Different Abilities, Desperation Attacks, and Multiplayer Mode.
#11 Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors is an Arcade, Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game offered by CAPCOM. The game comes up with ten playable characters, such as Demitri Maximoff, Victor von Gerdenheim, Lord Raptor, Felicia, Bishamon, Rikuo, Sasquatch, and many more with each having different moves and abilities.
The player has to select a character and fight against the AI characters in a solo mode or challenge a friend to fight in the multiplayer mode. The game comes up with several new features, such as air blocking, chain combos, and crouch walking.
Using the air blocking ability, the player can block the opponent’s upper attack, chain combos allow the player to use a series of combos against the opponent, and using crouch walking, the player can deceive the opponent in the playfield.
The game offers a Special meter like the Super Combo gauge that allows the player to perform a combo resulting in the decrease of the opponents. The core features of the game are Multiplayer Mode, Super Combo Gauge, Air Blocking, Chain Combos, Ten Characters, and Crouch Walking.