Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Enters The Ring In June

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: May 14, 2012 09:00 am

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Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown on consoles is less than a month from release. Sega announced today that the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network version of the game will be released on June 5th for PSN and June 6th for XBLA. The game will cost $14.99/ £9.99/ AUD$18.25/ €12.99 on PSN and 1,200 Microsoft Points for Xbox Live Arcade.

Downloadable content will be available day one, too. Sega will release character customization DLC packs for all 19 fighters. Each pack will cost $5 and will contain 600-950 customization items. Two additional packs, consisting of nine and 10 characters’ worth of DLC items, will also be released at launch. These will cost $15 each.

Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown adds two new characters—Taka Arashi from the third game and Jean Kujo, an entirely new character. The game has an 8-player Online Room Match Mode, and a feature for recording, replaying and uploading matches.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.