Capcom 3 he even became somewhat memetic for his ability to go toe-to-toe with Doctor Doom and Galactus. Final Fight characters have crossed back into Street Fighter numerous times, and Haggar himself became one of the first characters announced for Marvel vs. The series’ goofiness wasn’t enough to keep the series solvent (its nadir being the lamentable Final Fight: Streetwise ), but it catapulted Haggar into being one of the company’s most enduring figures. Many of them were awash in American action movie clichés, and this one especially felt like a game adaptation of a lost Cannon Group film ). The saga of Metro City’s ex-wrestler Mayor rescuing his daughter from stock Death Wish villains by ripping off his shirt and beating the snot out of street toughs is one of the more famous examples of late Eighties arcade games.
However, it became a classic for one reason especially: Mike Haggar.
While it’s one of the preeminent examples of the beat-em-up genre, Final Fight – originally a sequel to the first Street Fighter, and set in that series’ universe – never quite reached the popularity of contemporaries like Double Dragon or River City Ransom. Without further adieu, let’s look at Wolfman_J’s, Spazzy_D’s and TheAnvil’s picks. To clarify, we do not necessarily think that these characters will be added to Smash. Above all else *This is an opinion based article and should be treated as such. This unfortunately left some characters like Morrigan without a spot on our list.
Be sure to familiarize yourself with our picks for both Rare and SEGA in previous articles, as today we’re going to delve into the immersive world of Capcom!!!īefore we get cooking, we want to stress that we opted not to include any characters in this list from Street Fighter or Mega Man in the interest of appreciating all that Capcom has to offer. Additionally as with previous iterations of this series, we decided to only use characters from games that have made appearances on Nintendo consoles. Greetings and salutations Source Gaming fans. After a few delays we’re here (finally) to bring you another entry into our series of articles dedicated to looking at the top contenders from 3rd Party companies for Smash Bros.