While there are many different genres of video games in the industry, fighting games have a specific niche that only some franchises can easily fit into. There are even sub-genres of fighting games within the greater genre itself. Traditional 2D fighting games like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat have characters face off in a 1 vs 1 battle. 3D fighting games like Tekken add a third dimension for players to worry about, moving around an arena in a 3D space. Platform fighters like Super Smash Bros. have players knocking their opponents off of a stage rather than using health bars.
While fighting games have a lot of distinct characteristics that set them apart from other genres, one quality stands out above all else. Fighting game rosters are where most of the interest in a game comes from. The characters featured in a fighting game are important because of a combination of personality, aesthetic, and abilities in-game. For this reason, fighting games are make-or-break on the character select screen. It is also for this reason, that some franchises would translate incredibly well to a fighting game, with a cast of characters unique enough to give players an interesting variety to select from.
The Plants vs Zombies series started out as a simple defense-style game with players creating a garden of many different plants to defend against hordes of zombies. The series has continued in this way but has also jumped into other types of games as well. Garden Warfare and Garden Warfare 2 are two games in the franchise that are class-based third-person shooter games. Seeing as the franchise has already attempted to break into other genres, a fighting game would be a perfect addition to the growing series, no pun intended. While the Garden Warfare games switched to 3D models of the characters, a 2D fighting game would give the developers the opportunity to go back to the classic roots of the series.
While there are many different genres of video games in the industry, fighting games have a specific niche that only some franchises can easily fit into. There are even sub-genres of fighting games within the greater genre itself. Traditional 2D fighting games like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat have characters face off in a 1 vs 1 battle. 3D fighting games like Tekken add a third dimension for players to worry about, moving around an arena in a 3D space. Platform fighters like Super Smash Bros. have players knocking their opponents off of a stage rather than using health bars.
While fighting games have a lot of distinct characteristics that set them apart from other genres, one quality stands out above all else. Fighting game rosters are where most of the interest in a game comes from. The characters featured in a fighting game are important because of a combination of personality, aesthetic, and abilities in-game. For this reason, fighting games are make-or-break on the character select screen. It is also for this reason, that some franchises would translate incredibly well to a fighting game, with a cast of characters unique enough to give players an interesting variety to select from.
The Plants vs Zombies series started out as a simple defense-style game with players creating a garden of many different plants to defend against hordes of zombies. The series has continued in this way but has also jumped into other types of games as well. Garden Warfare and Garden Warfare 2 are two games in the franchise that are class-based third-person shooter games. Seeing as the franchise has already attempted to break into other genres, a fighting game would be a perfect addition to the growing series, no pun intended. While the Garden Warfare games switched to 3D models of the characters, a 2D fighting game would give the developers the opportunity to go back to the classic roots of the series.
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