The PSP has been selling quite well recently and I figured some new PSP owners may not know what great games the system has to offer. With that in mind, every day this week we'll feature a new genre and list the top 5 games (according to metareviews), so no matter what you're into, you'll have some idea of what games you should own. Today the focus is on Fighting games, a genre that used to be one of the biggest things in gaming, but has lost some popularity with time. I'm still a big fighting game fan though, so I had to make this list.
Top 5 Fighting games on PSP
- Tekken: Dark Ressurrection
- WWE Smackdown! vs. RAW 2006
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
- Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover
- Guilty Gear Judgement
This list doesn't include import games like Bleach or Naruto, so my personal list of best fighting games would be different. But what do you think about these 5 games? What fighting games aren't on this list that you think every PSP owner should have?
If you missed it, you can check out our previous top 5 game lists:
[Data Via Metacritic]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-07-2007 @ 6:52PM
Saigon said...
I agree with Tekken being a champ, but maybe we could have bumped Raw vs. Smackdown and added DBZ Shin Budokai as #5.
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3-07-2007 @ 10:03PM
yashamaru said...
So wrong nothing wrong with imports and some of the best fighting games are so Id rename the list.
"Top 5 US Fighting games"
Only way to make it right.
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3-07-2007 @ 10:35PM
Thomas said...
PSP has the top portable games ever created! In ALL Categories!!!
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3-08-2007 @ 9:31AM
Alien said...
Well Tekken and Guilty Gear are up on the list . Though RAW is not even far my favorite , its still good to check it out :)
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3-08-2007 @ 9:42AM
raymond said...
oh come-on smackdown vs raw? Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai is a great game with good graphics and superior controls for the psp that should never be left out of any fighting games list for the psp.
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3-08-2007 @ 11:46AM
txa1265 said...
Re #3 "PSP has the top portable games ever created! In ALL Categories!!!"
I guess that is why this site is 'FanBoy'.
I wish it were true, but here are a few:
- Adventure: Hotel Dusk is better than anything on the PSP
- Strategy: Advance Wars and Age of Empires are better than anything on the PSP.
- Platformers: DS, obviously.
- RPG: the GBA still wipes the floor with both the DS & PSP, but with FF III and Lunar Knights I'd put the DS ahead of PSP with Dungeon Siege and Valkyrie Profile. Hopefully the upcoming PSP stuff will tip that balance. (yes Tales of Eternia is really good, but it is not a US release)
... and so on. My point is that each system has strengths - could you imagine playing a typical sports or racing game or beat 'em up on the DS? I sure couldn't ...
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3-08-2007 @ 12:43PM
ACSeraph said...
It utterly sickens me that WWE and Def Jam are even on that list, much less above SFA3 and Guilty Gear respectively. I dont personally enjoy Tekken but I can understand why it would be many players first choice. The the other two just make me want to vomit...
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3-08-2007 @ 3:36PM
??? said...
While i do agree that the ds has better rpg and strategy games (for now) the psp has much better adventure games (Gta, MGS, Pirate just to name a few) and a really good platformer (Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters.
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3-08-2007 @ 4:48PM
txa1265 said...
Those aren't adventures, they are sandbox games and/or action games. Adventure games are things like Hotel Dusk, or the recent Sam & Max for the PC.
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3-08-2007 @ 5:12PM
John said...
SVR is a wrestling game NOT a fighter.
differnt Genre all together.
and the US Judgement doesn't have the superb slash.
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3-08-2007 @ 9:11PM
vR said...
I remember when I first tried Hotel Dusk. I worked in comics, so the art style blew me away. I played for a few hours the first night, and proceeded to recommend it to my friends that still play video games. I'm now 5 hours in, and I may be 10 minutes from passing it, but I may never finish it because no game has bored me this much in a long while. Menial tasks like communication with Mila have me falling asleep on my stylus (ask a question, tell her to write it down, double-click the notebook, click the notebook icon, read it, react to it, ask another question, rinse, repeat). Maybe I don't have the patience I used to have? The plot defines "convoluted", and it stopped being compelling after a couple of hours. I really wanted to like that game =(
I suppose it's better than any psp adventure game since I can't name a traditional adventure game on the psp, anyway.
As far as fighting games go, both Jump games and Bleach DS were excellent on the DS.
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3-09-2007 @ 4:19PM
spinthelights said...
Tekken was (is) amazing, heads and shoulders above the rest IMHO.
And follow what vR mentioned, Bleach DS 2nd is an amazing game too. I would love to see that moved over - if possible - to the PSPs wide, lush screen.
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