Wolf Hawkfield revealed for New Virtua Fighter Project, and a new focus on storytelling

With New Virtua Fighter Project nonetheless deep in growth, the group at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio shared a brand new glimpse of what they’ve been engaged on, and revealed a returning character.

Wolf Hawkfield is again, and he’s sporting a complete new look, which Artwork Director Ryo Shibasaki digs into.

There’s not way more information concerning the subsequent Virtua Fighter, however Producer Riichiro Yamad talked extra about how this recreation will delve a lot deeper into the characters and their backstories, together with returning legends from earlier entries. It received’t be origin tales, essentially, however will reveal a number of the motivations that they’ve for preventing, what occurred to them between video games, and tie in with the character designs normally. That is all one thing that Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio wished to carry into the collection,

Artwork Director Ryo Shibasaki additionally spoke about how Hawk’s design is that of a wrestler who nonetheless performs, evolving his look to be cool and with a “heel” ambiance to him. He positively seems the half, with the ammo belt belt, the heavy tattooing, and the older wanting face and pores and skin that basically provides that ageing wrestling star vibe.

Previous to this, the final we noticed of the sport was Akira and Sarah Bryant going preventing, and with a pre-production video in January, a pair of Akira battling.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has grow to be a lynchpin studio for Sega over the previous couple of years. You’ll know them greatest because the studio behind the vastly common Yakuza/Like A Dragon collection, however as broad as that collection has grow to be, they’ve additionally dealt with recent Super Monkey Ball games as nicely. Provided that Yakuza’s personal fight was a hand-me-down from Shenmue, which was in flip fed a department off from Virtua Fighter, this makes them the proper group to take the collection’ reins.

Elsewhere, the group confirmed that, after a well-received revamp of the final recreation for PC, Virtua Fighter 5 REVO is coming to PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S and Nintendo Change 2.