World Heroes Anthology is an arcade developed by ADK Corporation, released 18 October 2007 on PlayStation 2.
What World Heroes Anthology is
World Heroes Anthology is an arcade game developed by ADK Corporation and released in 2007. It was published by SNK Playmore. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
World Heroes Anthology is the complete collection (on one disc) of one of SNK's most popular 2D fighting game series World Heroes. The titles included are: World Heroes, World Heroes 2, World Heroes Jet, and World Heroes Perfect. The collection contains 56 characters using hand-to-hand and weapons based fighting mixed with special super-human abilities enabling each character to perform special attacks. World Heroes Anthology follows the storyline of Dr. Brown, a scientist, who having perfected a time machine has organized a fighting tournament throughout all of history to see who is the best fighter of all time. True to this plot, many of the fighters are based on actual historical figures.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
World Heroes Anthology holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
World Heroes Anthology launched on 18 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and The Witcher. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher.
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