Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat is a Fighting game franchise developed and published by Midway Games. It supports both Single and Multiplayer and takes place in the fictional world. Mortal Combat is the first game was released in 1992 based on side-scroll combat. There are dozens of characters, and each character has its unique play-style, and abilities. The player can select his character and dive into the game world where he can fight against computer-controlled character or his friends in co-op mode. Each player has a health bar, and his life depends on it. The player must face death if his health bar reduces to zero. Each stage has two or more levels, and the player has to complete different stages to further progress. The franchise has different games such as Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat: Gold, and more. New modes, characters, environment, and combo, introduces in each new entry. With enhanced mechanics, gameplay, and brilliant controls, Mortal Kombat is the wonderful franchise as compared to other fighting games.
#1 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.
#2 Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros is another Brilliant addition to the Action and Fighting genre. The series offers a number of intense Crossover Fighting games and allows you to enjoy Melee style combats against the opponents in both Duels and Team-based fighting matches. Just like all other Fighting and Dueling games, Super Smash Bros lets you engage yourself into Individual or Team-based Duels and matches against the opponents and win the fights by simply knocking out your rivals. Super Smash Bros features characters from Nintendo’s top notch line up (Link, Kirby, McCloud, Mario, Pikachu etc.) and offers new characters as well all laced up with the enhanced fighting techniques and special abilities and unique skills that help you make fantastic combinations while fighting against the rivals. With intense fighting matches and tournaments, easy controls, enhanced mechanics, great visuals, an addictive and very immersive game-play, Super Smash Bros is a brilliant Action and Fighting video game to play.
#3 Tekken
Tekken is a series of Single and Multiplayer Fighting video games by Namco. Released back in 1994, Its first game in the series is “Tekken” that features a Dual style fighting gameplay with eight characters including Nina, Yoshimitsu, Paul, Michelle, Jack, Kazuya, Marshal Law, etc. According to the gameplay, Tekken allows the players to choose a character from the provided character line-up and engage in fast-paced Hand to Hand Combat with a computer controlled or 2nd player controlled rival character. For the very first time, Tekken provided with innovative controls that allowed the players to control all the Limbs of player character independently with the help of buttons on the Arcade Console. The game offers time-based and round based gameplay and allows the players to select either one of the modes and enjoy fighting and defeating the opponents. The players can perform various types of moves by pressing the buttons as well as some special moves with the help of pressing multiple buttons at the same time. A help bar tells about the health of the player character and the one with low health loses the game if he/she fails to complete the round in given time. Tekken offers game rounds on various in-game world locations such as Monument valley (USA), Acropolis (Greece), Kyoto (Japan), and more. With a variety of gameplay modes, fantastic characters, amazing graphics and fast-paced combats, Tekken is the most played and liked Arcade Fighting video game Series to play and enjoy.