Fighting Vipers 2

Overview

Fighting Vipers 2, sometimes stylized as FV2: Fighting Vipers 2, is a 3D fighting game developed by Sega AM2 (along with Anchor) and released by Sega for arcades (using their Sega Model 3 hardware) on April 1998.

A sequel to the 1995 game Fighting Vipers and using the same hardware as Virtua Fighter 3, Fighting Vipers 2 revamps the graphics and gameplay engines while reworking the outfits for all returning fighters and adding four new ones (two of which are locked from the start).

The game's story takes place two years after the city mayor's defeat in his own tournament in Armstone City. He uses his power to conduct a "Viper Hunt" in an effort to imprison all of the Vipers.

It was later ported to the Dreamcast (with assistance by Scarab) in January 18, 2001 for Japanese regions, with a European release sometime afterward.

Gameplay

Fighting Vipers 2 plays similar to the original, with some new gameplay mechanics:

• Players can perform a one-time "Super K.O." technique (f+P+K+G) if they manage to lose all of their armor. Defeating their opponent with this technique causes a cinematic animation and wins the match, regardless of the match status.

Characters

New Additions

• Emi - The new youngest member of the Vipers, and granddaughter to a roboticist captured by the mayor's forces. She fights with a mechanically-modified teddy bear.

• Charlie - A BMX rider who sees himself as a rival to the skateboarder Picky. He fights with his sport bike.

• Kuhn - A mysterious metallic android who resembles Virtua Fighter's Dural. Hidden opponent and unlockable fighter who is fought in the game's hidden "Bonus Stage".

• Del Sol - A mysterious masked wrestler. Hidden opponent and unlockable fighter.

Returning Characters

• Bahn - A delinquent foreigner from across the ocean who is in search for his father, returning to Armstone City and getting acught up in the Viper Hunt.

• Tokio - The former leader of a local gang known as "Black Thunder", returning to fight after his former gangmates are being arrested from the Viper Hunt.

• Picky - A high-school skateboarder who seeks to be popular.

• Candy - A trainee fashion designer who dresses in her own self-made outfits. Known in the Japanese version as Honey. She also a variety of unlockable costumes.

• Jane - A hot-blooded truck driver who dreams of joining the military.

• Sanman - A mysterious heavy-set fighter who fights with an armor made from a scrapped motorcycle and is obsessed with the number three (hence the name "san"-man).

• Raxel - A narcissistic dropout who became the guitarist and vocalist for the rock band "Death Crunch".

• Grace - A rollerblader who left the figure skating world to become a fashion model.

• Mahler - A mysterious professional wrestler wearing a viper armor similar to B.M.'s from the original tournament.

• B.M. - Also known as "Big Mahler", he is the game's final boss and the city's mayor, fighting using armor that resembles a viper. He is only playable in the Dreamcast version as a hidden unlockable.