Jump Force is a celebration of 50 years of Weekly Shonen Jump manga, featuring nearly four dozen fighters from 16 of the magazine`s most iconic stories. Bandai Namco`s arena tag-team fighting game borrows plenty of elements from its source materials, for better and worse. Although Jump Force`s campaign story drags on for way too long and ignores what could have been interesting character interactions in favor of repeated excuses for everyone to punch the crap out of each other, its combat is an enjoyable dance between two teams of fighters--thanks to the game`s excellent mechanics and flashy visuals.In Jump Force, you`re an ordinary human who`s caught up in a warzone when the Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Naruto universes collide into our world and bring their assortment of heroes and villains with them. After being mortally wounded by Frieza, you`re resurrected as a hero capable of learning the powers, skills, and abilities of Shonen Jump`s characters, and you decide to join Goku, Luffy, and Naruto`s Jump Force of allies in order to fix everyone`s broken world. What follows is a fairly stereotypical shonen affair, with your character growing stronger over time, enemies and friends switching sides, and a mysterious evil working behind the scenes. Like most fighting games, there`s not a single problem you don`t ultimately just fix with your fists, from deciding team leader to knocking sense into those who have been corrupted by the same evil forces responsible for everyone`s worlds colliding with one another.There`s a decent story in Jump Force, but it`s buried beneath a second act that goes on for far too long. After getting acquainted with your new allies, the game tasks you with responding to threats around the globe, as well as the recruitment of any additional heroes who`ve managed to stumble into our world from their respective universes. Character models during cutscenes are all rather cookie-cutter, as everyone stands in the same position throughout the sto ...
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