Capcom Fighting Evolution (a.k.a.
Capcom Fighting Jam), released in 2004, is a
Massively Multiplayer Crossover between some of
Capcom's popular fighting game series, including
Street Fighter II,
Street Fighter III,
Street Fighter Alpha and
Darkstalkers. Of special note is that this game represents the second chance North American players have had to play as characters from the arcade-only
Red Earth (Tessa the Witch was playable in
Super Gem Fighter).
Evolution is a standard one-on-one fighting game with a semi-tag function allowing players to change their current character after a round, with four characters each from their respective games, along with
newcomer Ingrid (who was to appear in a 3D fighting game called
Capcom Fighting All-Stars, which was eventually cancelled) and
Final Boss Pyron from
Darkstalkers. All characters fight using the rules from the games they came from - the
Street Fighter II characters use the single
Super Move meter from
Super Street Fighter II, the
Darkstalkers characters have the stacking Super Move meters, etc. Like most Capcom crossover games, there is no overarching storyline (although each character does have their own ending cutscene) - fight several opponents, then the final boss, and then watch the end credits.
Roster
- Representing Street Fighter II: Ryu, Guile, Zangief and M. Bison
- Representing Street Fighter III: Alex, Chun-Li, Urien, and Yun
- Representing Street Fighter Alpha: Rose, Sakura, Karin, and Guy
- Representing Darkstalkers: Demitri, Felicia, Anakaris, and Jedah
- Representing Red Earth: Leo, Hauzer, Hydron (Nool) and Kenji (Mukuro)
- Original character: Ingrid, sorta. she was meant to debuted in the now-cancelled Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
- Bosses: Pyron and Shin Akuma
Tropes used in this game:
- All Just a Dream: Zangief's ending.
- The Cameo: Many Capcom classic characters appear in the game, in both the backgrounds and endings, such as:
- Jon Talbain in Ryu's ending.
- Mike Haggar in Alex's ending.
- Gill (who gets beaten down) Sagat, Vega, Balrog and the Bison dolls in M. Bison's ending.
- Morrigan in Demitri's ending.
- A lot of Capcom's girls in Felicia's ending.
- *breath* Ken, Dhalsim, Charlie, Dudley, Sean, Mai Ling, LeiLei, B.B.Hood, Rikuo and Victor in Pyron's ending.
- Dan (who gets beaten down) and Kei in Sakura's ending.
- Tessa, Blade and Mai Ling in Leo's ending.
- Dante in Jedah's ending.
- Yang in Yun's ending.
- Makoto in one of the backgrounds.
- Lazy Artist: The Darkstalkers characters, sans Demitri, are STILL using their 1994 sprites.
- Not to mention the low-res backgrounds with very little animation.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover
- No Plot? No Problem!
- Shout Out: Rose's ending has her imprisoning Pyron in a card, pretty much like Sakura (well, not the Street Fighter by that name, though).
- Ryu's Midnight Bliss is the little Indian girl with the milk jug he bumped into in the SF 2 anime movie.
- Suspiciously Similar Songs:
- The New York stage music had some parallels to Klymaxx's "Heartbreaker (I'm Such a Mess)".
- Ingrid's theme could be similar to Iron Butterly's "In A Gadda Da Vida".
- The Worf Effect: Gill gets beaten down in M. Bison's ending.
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