Tag: FIGHTING

What are Fighting Games?

A fighting game (also known as versus fighting game) is a video game genre that involves combat between two or more players. Fighting game combat features mechanics such as blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into “combos“. Characters generally engage in battle using hand-to-hand combat—often some form of martial arts. The fighting game genre is related to, but distinct from, the beat ’em up genre, which pits large numbers of computer-controlled enemies against one or more player characters.

Battles in fighting games usually take place in a fixed-size arena along a two-dimensional plane, to which the characters’ movement is restricted. Characters can navigate this plane horizontally by walking or dashing, and vertically by jumping. Additionally, some games, such as Tekken, allow limited movement in 3D space.