Viewtiful Joe 2 (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Viewtiful Joe 2

Joe and Silvia are back in this sequel to Viewtiful Joe. This time you have more style, new special moves, and more than 40 new enemies to defeat. Now Joe's trusty aircraft transforms into various shapes to…

80 18 November 2004

What Viewtiful Joe 2 is

Viewtiful Joe 2 is a fighting game developed by Clover Studio and released in 2004. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Viewtiful Joe 2, known in Japan as Viewtiful Joe 2: Secret of the Black Film, is a 2004 beat 'em up game developed by Clover Studio and published by Capcom for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. The game's story begins where the original Viewtiful Joe left off, with the beginning of an alien invasion of Movieland by a villainous organization called "Gedow". The group is led by an unseen being known as the "Black Emperor", whose proclaims his goal to collect the special Rainbow Oscars, seven statuettes which contain the "power of the happy ending". Straight from their previous adventure, superhero Viewtiful Joe and his girlfriend Sexy Silvia quickly charge themselves with stopping Gedow's evil…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Viewtiful Joe series

Viewtiful Joe 2 is the third of 10 entries we hold in the Viewtiful Joe series. The next entry was Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble in 2005. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Viewtiful Joe at 90.

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How it was received

Viewtiful Joe 2 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Viewtiful Joe 2 launched on 18 November 2004, within three weeks of Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and World of Warcraft. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft.

Cheats and codes

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