When it comes to arcade fighting games, Capcom is the cream of the crop. From the spectacular Street Fighter 2 and its many variations to fan-favorite franchises like Marvel Vs. Capcom and Darkstalkers, few have laid claim to the genre like Capcom.
The publisher also has an extensive history of preserving and reissuing its titles on modern hardware, and the recently announced Capcom Fighting Collection will return some of the company’s most specialized titles to the forefront of the fighting scene.
Capcom Fighting Collectionwhose launch is scheduled for June 24will include a total of ten titles with a selection of small bonuses available to those who pre-order.
The collection will include Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge, Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire, Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers’ Revenge, Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire, Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness and Red Planet. It’s shaping up to be a great compilation, and some are speculating that the Capcom Fighting Collection could overshadow the upcoming Street Fighter 6.
Considering the publisher’s massive catalog of genre-leading titles, there’s no shortage of potential titles to include here. That said, the games that have been included are somewhat eclectic, although that’s what most Capcom fans expected.
For example, it’s been almost a decade since any of the games in the Darkstalkers lineage have been reissued, and the arcade title Red Earth hasn’t received a home console port until now. Capcom has a number of fighting games that were thought to be dead, and the resurrection of these titles could give gamers hope for the future.
Capcom has also announced that Capcom Fighting Collection will implement rollback netcode, a process more or less unique to fighting games that uses predictive algorithms to anticipate a player’s next move before they do, thus compensating for lag in online combat.
This technology has been around in some form for over a decade, and has proven quite popular, with older titles in the Guilty Gear series gaining players after its retroactive introduction.