A reader explores how Western gaming’s two most accomplished role-playing developers have influenced each other and their games.
McEnroe versus Connors. Sega versus Nintendo. Tom versus Jerry. Throughout all walks of life there have been some great rivalries. In gaming we have hedgehogs against plumbers as well as kombatants pitted against world warriors.
However, not many rivals push the other to do better. Mortal Kombat may have helped themselves to Street Fighter’s revenge system with the x-ray moves and Cammy is probably the result of Capcom worrying about how big… Read the full story