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How Metascores Are Calculated
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Challenge a steady stream of opponents with varying ranks and skill levels, with the impression that you're playing online against human opponents with different styles. Along with this illusion of online play, Virtua Fighter 4 has also been expanded upon, including the roster, the character customization features, the visuals, the training mode, and even the arcade mode. With the different tournaments and two new characters to explore, VF4: Evolution will put your fighting skills to the ultimate test.
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 100
GMR Magazine
Not only the best 3D fighter of all time, it will make you a better fighting-game player. [Sept 2003, p.66]
100
PSM Magazine
With so many improvements, Evolution easily surpasses the former "Virtua Fighter 4." Fighting game fans will be impressed. [Sept 2003, p.37]
100
Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
Its controls are near-as-damnit perfect, and the connection you feel between yourself and your fighter makes a game like "Tekken 4" look like it's just fooling around. [Sept 2003, p.95]
100
GameNow
A brilliant fighting game, perhaps second only to "Soul Calibur II." [Sept 2003, p.53]
100
PSX Nation
The best fighting game ever made, for PS2 or any other system... "Soul Calibur II" comes close (and surpasses it in the minds of those that don't know any better), but VF4: Evolution is interactive one-on-one brawling at its purest and most visually alluring peak.
 100
Into Liquid Sky
Probably the best 3D fighter on the market at the moment... Give it a try, watch your life disappear...
100
GamePro
Beats its predecessor with souped-up visuals, new characters and moves, improved tutorials, hundreds of unlockable items, and the amazingly deep Quest mode. And this is a Greatest Hits title? Insane bargain alert!
100
Total Video Games
The best fighting game we've played since "Street Fighter Alpha 2," this is arguably the best fighting game to date.
100
G4 TV
There's a massive amount of technique to learn. When you're playing solo, there's no shortage of things to do, thanks to quest mode and the dozens of training challenges.
100
Village Voice
The greatest fighting game ever: deep, almost infinitely replayable, lovely to look at—and only 20 bucks.
97
GameSpy
Not as flashy as the competition. But its technical prowess and sheer depth give it an edge over every other game on the market -- even the vaunted, upcoming "Soul Calibur II," if only slightly. The game's immensely addictive, fun, intricate, and super speedy.
97
Armchair Empire
Taken together, with its hundreds of moves per fighter and addictive modes and polished graphics, Virtual Fighter 4: Evolution is a marvelous game.
97
Gamezilla!
Succeeds as a fighting game in so many ways it nearly redefines what makes this genre so much fun.
96
GameZone
This game has got an extremely deep Quest mode that will keep anyone occupied for months on end.
95
Electronic Gaming Monthly
Like its title suggests, Evo takes Sega's staggering chop-socky PS2 masterpiece and fine-tunes it to near perfection... But the real reason to plunk down 20 bucks is for Evo's superb Quest mode. [Sept 2003, p.115]
95
IGN
An incredibly deep and long-lasting single player mode, and the versus mode never gets stale; there's the included 10th Anniversary mode that's almost a separate game in itself; the graphics have been improved upon and almost perfected, and so has the gameplay.
94
GamingTrend
Hands down this is the absolute best fighting game available on the market right now. Any fighting fan should rush to their store and purchase this game immediately, as this is a very in-depth fighter, one that has more longevity than most RPGs.
92
GameSpot
Last year's "Virtua Fighter 4" bordered on perfection, and this new game is technically even better.
91
Game Revolution
The main problem with Virtua Fighter has always been its relative inaccessibility, and VF 4: Evolution clearly represents an effort to introduce new gamers to the franchise.
90
TotalGames.net
We've had a great deal of pleasure at the hands of evolution, even those of us who still swear quite vehemently that Tekken is The Daddy (Bonjour Chris) admitted that it’s a damn fine game. [Import]
90
Yahoo! Games
The only downside to the heavy reliance on the achievements of VF4 is that the graphics engine is beginning to age.
90
Cheat Code Central
Don't even think of renting if for this price. With such a simple-to-use, yet complex control system, you can be fighting in no time and continue refining your skills for months to come.
90
Game Informer
Consider it a stand-alone update priced fairly at 20 clams. [Aug 2003, p.86]
90
Thunderbolt
But if you can work with the game’s difficulty and take the time to learn the characters, you’ll find that Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution is a fighting game second to none.
85
GameCritics
A player shouldn't have to slog through command list after command list before fighting a particularly challenging AI or human opponent. Patience may be a virtue, but it can also mean really stubborn.
83
Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)
An amazingly intricate fighter, that will doubtless give VF fans sleepless nights to come. But in the shadow of the superb "Soul Calibur 2" (which offers not only depth, but accessibility and longevity in a beautifully presented package) it's hard to recommend to anyone other than those who already know they want it. [Import - GamesMaster]
80
EuroGamer
For the hardcore fighter, it's without doubt an essential purchase, in that it's a test of true skill and grit, has oceanic depth and subtlety, and rewards patience and persistence.
80
Adrenaline Vault
There's also the matter of the decidedly realistic approach taken here, which some may find a bit dry in comparison to other longstanding fighters, such as "Tekken Tag Tournament."
75
Play Magazine
I beg for a complete shakeup for this series, but for now, a fine polish will have to do. [Aug 2003, p.77]
70
Edge Magazine
Apart from minor graphical tweaks and two fresh characters, VF4E remains much the same game. [May 2003, p.102]
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