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.
#1 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is a brilliant Fighting sensation by Koei Tecmo games Co., LTD. The game lets you experience a thrilling and Fast-paced game-play in which you can choose your character from over 34 fighters (male and Female Characters), get into the game world, master and enjoy great Dead or Alive’s unique fighting system, and follow a brilliant story-line. Your task is to fight as Ninjas, Assassins, Rogues or Wrestlers and knock down your opponents to win the fights. Player vs player features lets you enjoy an epic fighting experience that immerses you deep into the game-play. With bundles of fantastic upgrades, DLC and tutorials, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round lets you master all the unique fighting tactics and let you opponents know how good at fighting you are. Dead or Alive 5: Last Round offers enhanced mechanics, visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.
#2 The Warriors
The Warriors is a blasting Action and Thrill packed Fighting and Beat em’ Up video game by the creators of GTA Series, Rockstar games. The games takes the players back into 70’s and allows them to roam through the streets of New York City and be part of the most feared Street Gang named as The Warriors. The Gang wrongly gets accused for the Murders they did not commit and to clear their name they get back to the City of New York. The game allows the players to select any of the playable characters such as Cleo (The Warriors Leader), Lieutenant Swan, Ajax and Snow, Vermin and Cowboy, The Scout Fox, Cochise and Rembrandt. The player’s tasks are to train fellow gang members, go out in the streets and beat down the rival gang members in order to earn more reputation. Further objectives of the game are to explore the Coney Island, engage into extra missions, steal loads of goods, get into Graffiti competitions and enjoy bribing the crook Cops, chasing down the targets and beating them up with the baseball bats and stuff. The game offers amazingly addictive Rumble matches in which the players can team up with up to eight other gang members and go reign hell over the enemies. Players can use some special moves while beating up the rival gang members as enjoy 2 and 3 button combinations of special attacks as well. The Warriors offers a totally linear gameplay and multiple missions such as Wreck ‘Em All, Mayhem, Let’s Go, Scatter, Watch my Back and Hold Up, etc. With total 18 amazingly blasting and action packed missions, beautiful 3D visuals, and an astoundingly addictive nature, The Warriors is a fun Beat em’ Up video game to play and enjoy.
#3 Injustice: Gods Among Us
Injustice: Gods Among Us is an Action, Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by NetherREalm Studios. The game takes place in the stunning universe of Justice League and includes superheroes. To get into the game world you must select your superhero. Each character has its unique powers, skills, and abilities. In the game, you can use special attacks and different fighting styles and engage yourself in one-on-one combat to defeat your opponents. It has different stages based on the different environment such as Metropolis, DC Universe, Bat cave, and Fortress of Solitude including interactive areas. Use weapons, tools, unique powers and special abilities to deplete opponent and attack enemy using strong moves. Avoid attacks and maintain your health bar if your health bar goes empty you lose the match. Each stage consists of two levels and you must complete both levels to complete a stage. The game includes different superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Ironman, Joker, and more. It offers the similar gameplay to Tekken series. With the best mechanics, fighting gameplay and stunning visuals, Injustice: Gods Among Us is the excellent game to play and enjoy.
#4 Street Fighter V
Street Fighter V is a 2.5D Cross-Platform, Single and Multiplayer Arcade Action Fighting video game by the popular Capcom and Dimps. This is the fifth main inclusion to the Street Fighter Series and offers playability on both Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles. Street Fighter V offers a similar Side Scrolling gameplay system to its predecessors and lets you enjoy V-Gauge system that allows you to earn three new skills as you get attacked by your opponents. With all the fantastic 16 new characters including the 4 new ones, Street Fighter V offers a Story Mode with more characters and perks that will be added in future via the DLC (Downloadable Content) packs of the game. With all other fantastic features of the game, Street Fighter V lets you enjoy the Stun Meter, that when filled fully lets you stun your opponent and play offensively, defat the opponents and enjoy being the one true Street Fighter among all the hardcore players. With an intense and quite addictive gameplay, loads of new skills and combos to try on your opponents, brilliant visuals and challenging game levels, Street Fighter V is one amazing Action and Fighting video game to play and enjoy.
#5 Ultra Street Fighter 4
Ultra Street Fighter 4 is a great addition to the wonderful game series Street Fighter. This one makes the game more addictive and allows you to enjoy Street Fighter aesthetics from a whole new perspective. Going on with the brilliance and trends, Ultra Street Fighter 4 offers five new player characters, six amazing new stages, and offers more fighting skills to master and engage yourself into epic mayhem and action filled game-play. With enhanced game-play mechanics, visuals and a new story, Ultra Street Fighter 4 lets you fight off your enemies/rivals in Duels and defeat them to get to the new levels of the game. Ultra Street Fighter 4 provides with an extreme Action and Thrill filled game-play, enhanced mechanics, new characters, new combats and DLC to keep you up with the pace. Try it out and enjoy marvelous visuals, amazing combats and an immersive game-play
#6 Abyss Odyssey
Abyss Odyssey is a Rogue-like Action and Fighting video game developed by Ace Team. The games focuses on a league of Heroes who are destined to fight against the evils only to reach down to a Warlock whose dreams are altering the reality and that is slowly engulfing the realm. Abyss Odyssey is actually a very interesting combination of multiple genres and offers a unique game-play, mechanics and story. According to the story-line, you are allowed to get into the character of a Hero how battles against the Warlock and his minions in order to save the reality that is being altered with every passing minute. Exploration, Dungeon crawling and procedurally generated world is what makes this game more interesting. With a Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter inspired fighting mechanism, Abyss Odyssey offers an amazingly immersive game-play, brilliant visuals and a great story to follow. Enemy elimination and the soul capturing element plus the unique ability to use all the powers of enemies against the Warlock provides with a chance to enjoy one of the most addictive and quite engaging game-play ever.
#7 TowerFall Ascension
TowerFall Ascension is one of the best games of this specific genre. This brilliant Action, Fighting, Archery and Combat masterpiece allows you to enjoy a game-play inspired by the classics and takes you to a whole new level of entertainment plus the quality gaming. TowerFall Ascension lets you engage yourself in epic Duels and Versus matches, use your abilities and special skills to defeat your enemies/opponents and master all the techniques of the pros. TowerFall Ascension offers insane amounts of treasures to loot, loads of power-ups, and abilities to catch the arrows mid-air while fighting with the enemies, monsters and other players. With Co-Op quests, and Multiplayer Support, TowerFall Ascension offers over 120 unique game maps, 50 hardcore battles, cool power-ups, 4 main and more unlockable player characters, loads of new stuff to discover and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#8 Tekken 7
Who doesn’t love playing Fighting games? Squashing punches, raging kicks and loads of special abilities are the elements that make a fighting game more and more engaging as well as additive. Most of the readers would definitely be familiar with the Legendary Tekken Series. Well, Tekken just released another marvel that is booming in the markets and is entertaining all the hardcore Fighting games enthusiasts worldwide. Tekken 7, developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment is a recent addition to the already pacing Series Tekken. This brilliant piece of fighting offers more enhanced visuals, realistic action, and thrill as well as loads of new characters and special abilities. Released back in 2015, Tekken 7 players had limited access to its Arcade content but later on, an updated Arcade version (Tekken 7: Fated Retribution) was published in 2016 that introduced more content and offered new stages, costumes, skills, characters, and items, etc. Tekken 7 focuses on PvP module and provides 1 on 1 battles in the main gameplay and includes two new fighting mechanisms such as Rage Art and Power Crush. The Arcade version Tekken 7 features traditional type of gameplay with typical Tekken fights and a standard progress system. With a Local Online Mode, Single and Multiplayer Options, Practice Mode, Character Customization options, fantastic 3D visuals and addictive gameplay, Tekken 7 is lot more fun than that of its earlier versions. So do try it out if you haven’t played it and enjoy all the adrenaline pumping and fast-paced action and thrill at the same time. Tekken 7 is available for Pre-Order at the Official Game Website.
#9 BlazBlue
BlazBlue is an Arcade video game series with strong Fighting elements. It is created and published by Arc System Works and supports both Single and Multiplayer modes. The game offers one-on-one combat system and includes various character each with its unique skills, abilities, and moves. You can play solo against Computer controlled character or against other players in multiplayer mode. Use combos, and special moves to take down your opponents and win the stage. The series includes My Room features, in which you can hang out with other players, decorate your room with lots of accessories, wall items, stickers, and furniture. Explore different scenarios and defeat your opponents use flashy attacks. The series contains various entries such as BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, BlazBlue: Central Fiction and more. It offers prominent features such as My Room, Crush’em, New Stages, Scenarios, Auto Guards, Special Abilities, Combo Attacks, Distortion Drive and more. BlazBlue is the wonderful series as compared to other fighting games.
#10 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.
#11 Mortal Kombat XL
Mortal Kombat XL is an Action, Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game with new and existing content developed by NetherRealm Studios. It offers the similar gameplay like its previous games and introduces new characters such as Leatherface, Bo’Roi Cho, Tri-borg, and more. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic-themed world consists of various environments. It also features previous entry characters such as Predator, Tremor, Goro, etc. and includes new packs of Skins, environments, and apocalypse. To get into the game world, the player has to select his character with his unique play-style and abilities. The ultimate task is to fight against AI characters or other players in one-on-one battle and defeat them before time runs. There are different stages and each stage and two or more levels. With enhanced mechanics, brilliant controls, and superb visuals, Mortal Kombat XL is the best game to play and enjoy.
#12 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is an Action, Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game created by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the direct sequel to Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution and offers similar gameplay like its previous entries. The game takes place in the breathtaking world and includes a variety of characters. Each character has its unique skills, combo style, and special moves. The player can select one of them to immerse himself in a one-on-one battle. Play solo in single-player mode against NPCs, or compete against a friend in multiplayer. The main aim is to attack players and try to decrease his power while avoiding his attack to further progress. As the player win the battle, the game unlocks other stages, in which the player must fight against other opponents. The game includes a new feature enables the players to swap characters during a fight like Marvel vs. Capcom 3. With fighting gameplay, superb characters, and wonderful controls, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is the best game to play.
#13 Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition is an Action-Adventure, Fighting, Superhero, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game introduces several characters from the Universe of DC and takes place in the beautiful environment explore by isometric perspective. There are lots of superheroes present such as Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Aquaman, Ares, Bane, Black Adam, and more. Each character has its unique super power, abilities and plays style. You must choose your character and dive into the battle where you have to fight against opposing character and defeat him using your skills. You can participate in one-on-one combat matches against multiple characters in different levels. The game contains different stages based on several locations including Batcave, Fortress of Solitude, and Metropolis. As the match progresses, it will increase the level difficulty and unlock other characters to select and play. Six new characters, thirty skins and up to sixty lab missions are available in this ultimate edition. With superb gameplay, improved graphics, and smooth controls, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition is the best game to play and enjoy.
#14 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is a Standalone Expansion Pack for original game, offering an Action, Fighting, Single-player and Multiplayer video game published by Capcom. The game introduces the exciting characters from both Capcom’s comic book series and video game franchises. In the game, the player must choose a team of three superheroes to engage in combat and effort to knock out the opponents. The DLC pack introduces new playable characters, environment and modes. Each character in the game has its unique personality, and special ability. The player needs to use his kicking and punching abilities to beat the opponent and decrease his health bar to win the level. The game comprises multiple stages and the player must battle different opponent in each stage in one-on-one combat matches. During the game, the player can combine multiple attacks to create a combos and enough damage the competitor. Customize the team using various options and become the best fighter in the world. With new superheroes, new scenarios, smooth controls, and special abilities, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is the incredible fighting game to play.
#15 Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition is an enhanced version of the original title, Street Fighter V and it comes with all new content from the original game such as all 12 Downloadable Content Packs, Arcade Mode and mode. The game features both Single-player, and Multiplayer modes developed and published by Capcom, and the premise of the game is fighting genre. The fighting franchise returns with a new title Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition and the game introduces the new characters for players. The game starts with the player choosing his character from available and jumps into the game with an aim to take down the opponent using his special abilities, skills, and unique combos. In the game, each character has its unique personality, fighting style, and moves which the player uses against an opponent in a one-on-one match. The player can select one of six different paths themed after Classic fighting games and can unlock dozens of illustration as the player play through Arcade mode. In Online mode, the player teams up with another player, set the rules, and see who comes out on top. Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition includes prominent features such as Team Battle, New Graphics, Extra Battle Mode, Arcade Mode, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#16 Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection
Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Capcom, is the compilation of Fighting video game for Multiple Platforms. The compilation gathers the arcade version of 12 fighting video games from the long-running series of Street Fighter including Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter III, and more. It supports both Single-player and Multiplayer options, and the player is able to save states to save and resume the game at any time while playing Single-player mode in any of the 12 video games. Four of the games such as Super Turbo, Turbo: Hyper Fighting, 3rd Strike, and Alpha 3 supports online mode, including the ranked matchmaking. The video game collection comes with bonus features such as pitch documents, concept art and facts about each video game as well as a music player to listen to tracks. Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection includes core features such as Several Releases, Playable Characters, and more.
#17 Mortal Kombat X
Mortal Kombat X is a super Thrilling Action-packed Fighting video game by NetherRealm Studios and High Voltage Software. The game offers a totally new side of Action and Fighting aesthetics, combines it with Strategic elements and allows you to have an immersive game-play experience. With a Non-Parallel and Cinematic approach of presentation, Mortal Kombat X enables you to choose your player characters from multiple variations and engage yourself into a unique combat and strategy based game-play where you can challenge your opponents, fight them off into epic duels and use sophisticated skills and combinations of unique fighting tactics. With a super thrilling nature, hardcore action and drama appeal, a number of brilliant character and equipment upgrades and perks plus DLC, Mortal Kombat X is a fantastic game to play. Mortal Kombat X is available to play on Android and iOS devices as well.
#18 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.