Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side is the quintessential Sega fighter game; extreme violence, tactics, and striking visuals. The style of the game is pure 80’s comic book style; everything from the costumes to the music, which is great.
One warning though, this game is tough! I remember, as an innocent child, playing this game and getting my rump kicked red by the computer opponents; but the player versus player is pure glory. Playing against your friends can get kind of edgy though, there are ways to get cheap with the moves in this game; for instance when you select the caveman character Slash (the prehistoric hunter) you can do a swipe with his club that swipes to both sides.
This single move ruled and consequently enraged my opponents (brother and cousins). I know this sort of thing can destroy game play, but be assured the game play in this still very much intact and functions well.
The gore abounds when you finish-off an opponent; is the best part, each level has a unique finish-off move; let me explain. Just when you’ve delivered the final blow to that blasted opponent that has stricken you again and again in the past, you are delightfully treated to an execution by denizens or the environment of the level. For instance: in the mafia character’s level the execution is a mafia car first running over your opponent, then passing the body again, pumping it full of lead, and passing again to unload one
more magazine into your prostrate enemy. Another example is in an underground-futuristic-alien-fight-circle the finishing move comes when a pair of hovering robots vaporizes your opponent and hover away, seconds later a cleanup drone dutifully vacuums up the dusty remains. After defeating you friend in this game; you will not feel the usual urge to rub the victory in their face the game does it far better than you ever could; and a game that does your job for you is a game you must own.
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side is marvellous and addictive game! I highly recommend downloading it!
