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Battle Arena Toshinden psx Game Reviews
Battle Arena Toshinden
Critic Score
Metascore: 69 Metascore out of 100
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You are invited...to you own DEMISE. Battle the world's toughest fighters in this "Invitation Only" underworld tourney. Only ONE warrrior will survive. Will it be your destiny? The ONLY true 3-dimensional, 360-degree tournament-style fighter. Avoid and annihilate your opponent before he - or she - does you! Four different views AT WILL. From in-your-face close to the sky-high gaze of the powers-that-be. Unbelievable sweepkicks, rapid-fire hits, sky-high jumps, #@%! slaps, killer combos and tons of weapons and special moves. Pulverize 8 deadly challengers...and whoever or whatever comes next! Are you up to it? [Sony]

PUBLISHER: Sony Computer Entertainment
DEVELOPER: Takara
GENRE(S): Fighting, Action
PLAYERS: 2
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: September 1, 1995

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75
TotalGames.net
The lack of combos is a real problem, making it tough to string together decent attack patterns and this is a real boo-boo for a beat ''em-up. Shame really, because if more effort had gone into polishing up the gameplay by simply making sure there was more to it, Battle Arena Toshinden would have been a blinding piece of software.
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70
All Game Guide
With unbelievable sweep kicks, rapid-fire hits, sky-high jumps, killer slaps and combos, and a whole host of weapons and special moves, Battle Arena Toshinden sets a new stage in gaming for the PlayStation revolution.
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70
IGN
Tamsoft added one little move to the characters' repertoires, and that one little move changed the fighter forever. Behold: the sidestep!
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60
Thunderbolt
The game controls quite sluggishly. It often seems that there is a delay between what you are pressing on the controller and what is occurring on-screen. I was a relative novice to 3D fighting games back in those days, but now I know that such poor responsiveness can kill a fighting game.
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