rival schools

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Rival Schools is a fighting game series made by Capcom, the creators of the Street Fighter series. It focuses on students and teachers from various schools duking it out in tag team fights.

Games in the Series

Rival Schools

The first game in the series, Rival Schools: United By Fate (Shiritsu! Justice Gauken: Legion of Heroes in Japan), was released in arcades and on the PlayStation in 1998. The game features 2-on-2 fights, where characters could be switched out between rounds, and the second character could be called out during the fight for team up attacks like in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. The Japanese version of the game also included a second disc with several minigames, including a date-sim like game where a player could create a character who went through normal school life, intereacting with characters from the main game and could be later used as a playable character in the main fighting modes. Shiritsu! Justice Gauken: Nekketsu Seisyun Nikki 2, an update of the game (which was mistaken as the sequel) released only in Japan, included a more elaborate version of this date-sim game.

Project Justice

The true sequel, Project Justice (Moreo! Justice Gauken in Japan), was released in 2000 in Japan and 2001 in the United States and Europe for arcades and the Sega Dreamcast. In comparison to Rival Schools, Project Justice's fights featured teams of 3, adding three-person team-up attacks and the ability to interrupt and stop 2-person team-ups. Like it's prequel, Project Justice included a character-creation mode that came in the form of a virtual board game.