Top 10 Games: Fighting Games
The highest-graded fighting games we have reviewed, best first.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3A hundred and sixty one fighters, every saga, and a camera that finally sits where the show puts it.Read the review
Super Smash Bros. UltimateEvery fighter from every game in the series, which should have been impossible, and it runs beautifully.
Street Fighter 6The comeback that made a thirty year old genre welcoming again without dulling a single edge.
Tekken 3The best fighting game of the PlayStation era, and it wasn't close.
Tekken 8The most aggressive Tekken ever built, which is thrilling for a hundred hours and exhausting after that.
Garou: Mark of the WolvesSNK's last great fighter, and the most beautiful sprite work the Neo Geo ever pushed out of its cartridges.
Street Fighter IIThe cabinet that invented the fighting game as a social contract.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UThe roster got enormous, the netcode stayed miserable, and the fighting underneath was the best the series had ever been.
Super Smash Bros. MeleeA party game with an accidental competitive engine that people are still playing two decades later.
Street Fighter IVThe game that brought fighting games back from the dead, then charged for it four more times.
