Fatal Fury Archived

Today SNK announced it is exhuming its 16-year old fighting series and releasing the Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Volume 1 on the PlayStation 2. The collection will include the first four entries in the franchise: Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, and Fatal Fury 3. This will be the first appearance of the brawler on U.S. consoles since the original PlayStation's Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition in 1999.

Released the same year as (and overshadowed by) Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury was the first fighting game to allow players to battle on two planes. It also featured a cooperative mode when a second player joined a single-player game. The two would have to work together to defeat the computer-controlled opponent before they could fight one another.

The sequel, Fatal Fury 2, introduced "desperation moves" that could be unleashed when your fighter was near defeat. Fatal Fury Special was an expanded version of Fatal Fury 2 with additional characters. The third proper entry in the series, Fatal Fury 3, added a third plane on which players could duke it out.

Furious 2D fighting will live again on the PS2 this summer.

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