
Street Fighter, and you have to beat all of them to confront the final boss, the first mutant of them all, Appocalypse. If the stage timer runs down to zero, the team with more HPs left wins. A team wins a stage when both opponents are knocked out. Street Fighter crossover the place where the battle takes place (and its according background) is chosen randomly. Unlike in other Street fighter installments, in X-Men vs. Player battles, each player chooses on their own. In Player against Computer battles, you choose your two fighters and two other are randomly selected for the computer. And once again, the joystick isn’t there just for fun, nor is it there only for moving your character arround but also for gesture recognition, which is a part of the way how Street Fighter games register the moves you want the character to perform (forgive me my lazines, I won’t bother to write these down here, cause a/it’s so much more fun to learn them by yourself and b/there’s a pretty high chance you have access to google and Street Fighter wiki where you can find them). Quite confusingly though, MAME appears to defaultly give you only something in between: 4 buttons (more about this button mystery here), but if you look into in-game config, you can map all the six buttons (I mapped them to 4-6 and 1-3 numpad keys, with 4 being button-1 and 1 being button-4, just a suggestion, you know). Street Fighter are pretty much the same as in any other Street Fighter game (check those in downloads): an 8-way joystick + 6 normal or 2 pressure sensitive buttons. The graphics were upgraded accordingly to the date of release (1996, that is five years after the SFII) and there is more playable characters than in any other previous installment in the series. The major added feature is the presence of a team-tag system, where in each battle there are two fighters on each side, who can be then freely swapped forth and fro during the combat indefinite number of times.


To cut it short: X-Men vs Street Figter is basically a stepped up Street Fighter II with additional features and bunch of X-Men universe characters you can play with-or against them.
