...In fact this may possibly be THE resurrection of the fighting game genre. To start, this game is an incredible value. It was just released and it's already only 20$, now that's what I call customer service. Creative Edge Studios is really setting an example of how a game developer company should operate in an ideal world for gamers; not solely for profit, but for value for all of its customers. These guys are up there with Valve in their generosity with their gamers first attitude. This game is easily a $60 dollar purchase with its beautiful state of the art life-like visuals which arguable dwarfs crysis. The character models look like REAL people, and the animation is spot on too. The way the characters move on screen is not only very fluid, it is also perfectly anatomically correct (being an anatomy major I have an eye for nitpicking imperfections in character animations) The level of detail in movement is beyond that of mo-cap technology. So really in a nutshell what I'm trying to say is that the graphics are stunning, really the only gripe I have about this game in any visual aspect is that for a fighting game there is absolutely NO and I mean NO attractive character to fight as. I mean every fighting game has the sexy femme fatale, for instance Street Fighter has Cammy, King of Fighters with Mai, and dead or alive with 80% of its character roster but you will see that aspect of fighting games is absent here, which I suppose just adds to the realism as it accurately depicts the violent world of professional bikini fighters. Honestly if you train all day to increase muscle mass and durability, superficial details would have no place in a career where you're getting a black eye everyday. On to the meat of the review though, what EVERY fighter really relies on to be a successful game... THE GAMEPLAY. You will see no faults here. I have not seen a deeper combat system in a fighting game since Street Fighter III. Of course this game is also newbie friendly with its basic controls, but mastering all of the deep gameplay mechanics such as super-cancels, and perfectly honing your timing skills to combat your opponents at the exact frame is something for the masters and will no doubt take years to fully master. Being an avid player of fighting games I am not one of the afore mentioned masters of the genre, but I do play enough to see the difference between a very skilled player and a newbie mashing buttons. And not very many games have that distinction, Warriors of Elysia however is just plain wonderful and I very much look forward to the sequel.
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