Virtua Fighter 5 to debut on February 19

Sega's Virtua Figher 5 for the PS3 and Xbox 360 will debut on the simExchange on Monday, February 19, 2007. It will be categorized under the Fighting genre. Shares for the PS3 version will open for purchase at 90 DKP (forecasts 900,000 copies sold worldwide over lifetime) and the Xbox 360 will open for purchase at 70 DKP (forecasts 700,000 copies sold worldwide over lifetime). The PS3 version will be released in North America on February 20, 2007 and in Europe on March 2007. It was released in Japan on February 8, 2007 and sold 49,500 copies in its first two days according to VG Charts. The Xbox 360 version is set for sometime this summer. The PS3 game listing was submitted by MyNameIsJon while the Xbox 360 version was submitted by Joe 80. The summary of the game is:

Virtua Fighter 5 is the fifth installment of the 3D arcade fighting series by Sega. For those new to the series, Virtua Fighter is a fighting game that pits the player against a slew of characters in a fighting tournament for domination that features more realistic fighting (no fireballs and the like). The game features 17 fighters, of which there are two new characters: Eileen, a Monkey Kung Fu fighter, and El Blaze, a lucha libre wrestler.

The game features an arcade mode (like playing at the arcades), a versus mode (play against a friend), a quest mode (fighting AI controlled players at different difficulties to earn money to buy unlockable items), dojo mode (practice mode that teaches you how to do the moves), and VF.TV where you watch recorded replays from your matches.

Moves in Virtua Fighter 5 are made in a combination of punk, kick, and guard buttons. The game’s fighting system is largely similar to Virtua Fighter 4 but is designed to be faster. Virtua Fighter 5 also allows the player to customize and tweak their characters. The game features 720p graphics and no online play.