Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
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System(s): Sega NAOMI 2, Sega NAOMI 2 GD-ROM, PlayStation 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre: Fighting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (バーチャファイター4 エボリューション) is an updated version of Virtua Fighter 4, and was released for Sega NAOMI 2 arcade hardware in 2002. The NAOMI 2 release was available in both standard ROM board and GD-ROM forms.
It was subsequently brought to the PlayStation 2 a year later, curiously under Sony's "Greatest Hits" range, basing its record off the earlier Virtua Fighter 4 PS2 release.
Contents
Gameplay
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The game introduces two new characters; the Judoka-assassin, Goh Hinogami and the Muay Thai boxer, Brad Burns. Various other tweaks have also taken place - for example, Vanessa Lewis's alternate Muay Thai style from Virtua Fighter 4 has been removed, and replaced with a Vale Tudo "Offensive" style, making her a solely Vale Tudo brawler. Every stage has also been adjusted, for example, Lei-Fei's stage in Virtua Fighter 4 previously took place during sunset, but in Evolution it takes place during the morning.
- Improved Graphics: better anti-aliasing.
- New item store in Quest Mode.
- Currency system in Quest Mode.
- Opponent tracking log in Quest Mode: kept track of which opponents were fought in Quest Mode.
- Increased number of character items.
- Improved ranking system.
- Special gameplay modes (i.e. Hyper Fighter, See-Saw, Wrestler's, etc.).
- Emblem collecting: placed special incentive to defeat certain opponents or to avoid being defeated by certain opponents.
- New ring type: Semi-open/semi-walled.
Production credits
Arcade version
- Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
- Executive Director: Yu Suzuki
- Coordinator: Hiroshi Kataoka, Noriyuki Shimoda
- Supervisor: Toru Ikebuchi
- Game Director: Daichi Katagiri
- Main Programmer: Tetsuya Sugimoto
- Main Designer / Stage Design: Munekazu Makino
- Programmer: Susumu Morii, Syuji Takahashi, Masataka Daigo, Shinji Ohshima, Yohsuke Takeda, Dai Matsuzaki, Shigeru Yoshida, Ryo Sato
- Character Name
- Goh Hinegami: Jun Kubota (iceman)
- Brad Burns: Hiroaki Ota
- Item Director: Tomonori Shiino
- Item Designer: Nobuhiko Kosuge, Chizuka Tamehira, Makio Kida, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Ringo Manabe, Mitsugu Tsuchida, Tetsunari Iwasaki
- 2D Designer: Masatomo Suzuki
- Emblem Designer: Kenji Miyawaki, Masaya Saida, Erika Aihara
- Planner: Hiroshi Masui
- Motion Director: Kouji Kudou
- Motion Designer: Toshiyuki Ohashi, Akio Murakawa, Makoto Koizumi, Hajime Itou, Kousuke Sasaki, Masato Nakamura, Masanori Chida, [NOVA Inc.] Kazuaki Kitazawa
- Motion Capture Team: Hans Van Veenendaal, Takeo Iwata
- Katsugekizawa: Wataru Koga, Naoyasu Achi, Kazuhiro Sinyako
- Stunts Astyn: Motoki Kawana, Akira Sugihara, Yoshio Miyaki
- Game System Regulator: Masaharu Terabata, Tetsuji Sugahara, Junji Ogahara, Yo Momotani
- Sound Creators: Fumio Ito, Shinichi Goto, Sachio Ogawa, Keisuke Tsukahara, Naoyuki Machida, Yasuhiro Takagi, Tatsutoshi Narita
- Guitar Player: Tomoya Koga
- Character Voice: Shinichirou Miki, Mahito Tsujimura, Minami Takayaka, Shigeru Chiba, Nina Kumagaya, Takahiro Sakurai, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Toshihiko Seki, Eric Kelso, Jeff Manning, Dennis Gun, Donna Burke, Ryan Drees, Lisle Wilkerson, Bill Sullivan
- VF.NET Team: Yusuke Shimizu, Hideo Gunji, Koki Koiwa, Kazuhiro Shigekuni, Shinji Okuma, Yasuyuki Komiya, Chika Torii, Shuhei Nakayama, Hiroshi Tsurusaki, Wataru Nakanishi, Kei Terui
- Publicity: Taku Kihara, Sayoko Nishino, Masayuki Kato
- Special Thanks: Kazfumi Ohhashi, Susumu Aketagawa, Magic Capsule Co., Ltd., Virtua Fighter 4 original staff, NAOMI by Hardware R&D Dept.
- Presented by: Sega
- Created by: Sega-AM2
PlayStation 2 version
- Producer: Hiroshi Kataoka
- Director: Noriyuki Shimoda
- Art Director: Satoshi Fujinuma
- Arcade Portion
- Program Director: Toru Kujirai
- Main programmer: Masanori Sato
- Programmer: Hajime Take, Hajime Iwamoto, Hitoshi Iizawa, Takuya Nagayasu
- Original Portion
- Main programmer: Tetsuya Sugimoto
- Programmer: Shinji Ohshima, Yohsuke Takeda, Ryo Sato, Kenichirou Tabata
- Art Director: Satoshi Fujinuma
- Characters & Items: Chizuka Tamehira, Genta Takahashi, Hiroaki Ota, Kozue Suzuki, Nobuhiko Kosuge, Masayuki Takahashi, Ringo Manabe
- Stages & Effects: Seiji Aoki, Yuichi Matsui
- 2D Graphics: Kazuya Suzuki, Masatomo Suzuki
- Design Supervisor: Youji Kato
- Planners: Daichi Katagiri, Hiroshi Masui, Tomonori Shino, Kouji Kudou, Masato Nakamura, Yo Momotani, Masaharu Terabata, Masanori Chida
- Sound Creators: Fumio Ito, Shinichi Goto, Naoyuki Machida, Tatsutoshi Narita
- Guitar Player: Tomoya Koga
- Player Database: Dai Matsuzaki
- Test Team: Yuichi Taniguchi, Naoto Tomita, Tsutomu Morohashi, Hisashi Arima, Masataka Arai
- Visual Editng: Naonori Watanabe, Hidekuni Ohta
- Publicity: Taku Kihara, Masayuki Kato
- Publicity Design: Sayoko Nishino
- Replay Data: Bunbun-Maru, Chibita, Hideto Sugawara, Hiromiki Kumada, Hiroshi Nakamichi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kazuki Tokunaga, Kurita, Kyasao, Masahide Hiroike, Masaki Takamatsu, Ohsu Akira, Rei Hase, Segirl, Wakao Nakamura, Yasuyuki Yamada, Yo-ro-, Yousuke Fukazawa
- Special Thanks: Enterbrain, Inc., Sega Amusement Co., CRI Middleware Co. Ltd., Joji Morikawa, Keisuke Chiwata, Kenji Furukawa, Jun Kubota (iceman), Kazuaki Kitazawa (Nova Inc.), Akio Murakawa, Hajime Itou, Junji Ogihara, Kousuke Sasaki, Makoto Koizumi, Tetsuji Sugawara, Toshiyuki Ohashi, Erika Aihara, Hans Van Venendal, Keisuke Tsukahara, Kenji Miyawaki, Masataka Daigo, Masaya Saida, Mitsugu Tsuchida, Munekazu Makino, Sachio Ogawa, Shigeru Yoshida, Susumu Morii, Syuji Takahashi, Takeo Iwata, Tetsunari Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Takagi, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Ryujirou Ota, Takami Shibasaki, Yusuke Shimizu, Hideo Gunji, Koki Koiwa, Kazuhiro Shigekuni, Shinji Okuma, Yasuyuki Komiya, Chika Torii, Shunei Nakayama, Hiroshi Tsurusaki, Wataru Nakanishi, Kei Terui, TR Department
- Supervisor: Toru Ikebuchi
- Executive Director: Yu Suzuki
- Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
- Created by: Sega-AM2
- Presented by: Sega
- Executive Vice President: Shinobu Toyoda
- Vice President - Marketing: Mike Fisher
- Product Manager: Noah Musler
- Localization Producer: Osamu Shibamiya
- Test Lead: Shawn Dobbins
- Senior Media Specialist: Teri Higgins
- Creative Services Manager: Arianne McCarthy
- Package Design: Vicki Morawietz
- Special Thanks: Bryan Burk - Translation Services, Ken Natsuhara, Klay Vorlick, Jason Kuo, Yosuke Moriya
Magazine articles
- Main article: Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Merchandise
Physical scans
NAOMI 2 version
NAOMI 2 GD-ROM, JP (Revision A) | ||||
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PlayStation 2 version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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1,851,654,144 | DVD-ROM (EU) | SLES-51616 (V1.00) | ||||||||||
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1,238,695,936 | DVD-ROM (JP) | SLPM-65270 (V1.00) | ||||||||||
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1,564,114,944 | DVD-ROM (KR) | SLKA-25043 (V1.02) | ||||||||||
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1,558,740,992 | DVD-ROM (US) | SLUS-20616GH (V1.02) | ||||||||||
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2003-05-22 | DVD-R | Page |
External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Arcade, PlayStation 2
- Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution on PlayStation.com: JP, US, KR (Big Hit)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Computer & Video Games, "October 2004" (UK; 2004-08-26), page 101
- ↑ http://www.sega.com/games/ps2/post_ps2game.jhtml?PRODID=10561 (Wayback Machine: 2003-08-07 10:53)
- ↑ Press release: 2003-08-12: SEGA'S "VIRTUA FIGHTER 4 EVOLUTION" HITS STORES THIS WEEK; DUBBED "THE BEST 3D FIGHTER OF ALL TIME" BY GMR
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm65270.html (Wayback Machine: 2006-10-29 16:49)
- ↑ http://www.playstation.co.kr/game/358 (archive.today)
- ↑ https://youtu.be/wIsSSQjSB0Y?t=832
- ↑ File:VirtuaFighter4Evolution_PS2_JP_SSCredits.pdf
- ↑ File:VirtuaFighter4Evolution PS2 US Manual.pdf, page 54
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mai 2003" (FR; 2003-0x-xx), page 92
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 2003" (US; 2003-08-05), page 115
- ↑ Famitsu, "2003-03-21" (JP; 2003-03-07), page 33
- ↑ GamePro, "September 2003" (US; 2003-08-05), page 88
- ↑ Game Station (UK) (+0:00)
- ↑ Hyper, "September 2003" (AU; 2003-08-06), page 73
- ↑ PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK, "July 2003" (UK; 2003-06-13), page 82
- ↑ PSM, "Vol. 7, No. 9: September 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 39
- ↑ Virtual'nyye radosti, "" (BY; 2004-03-30), page 1
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Demos: Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution Taikenban (2003)
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