Virtua Warrior may soon return to the public eye. Sega’s global head of transmedia, Justin Scarpone, casually dropped news of a new game in the franchise during an interview. . “There are a number of titles already in development that will go into this legacy box that we announced at The Game Awards last year,” he said. “Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Shinobiand we have another Virtua Warrior is being developed. And that’s why all this is so exciting.”
Really exciting. Most of these titles were actually showcased during The Game Awards as part of it For Sega, but mentioned by Scarpone Virtua Warrior is a new discovery. It was the last numbered entry in the series Virtua Warrior 5 Until 2006. That’s not to say the fighting game franchise has been static since then; There have been riffs and redos like in 2015 and 2021 Virtua Fighter Ultimate Showdown. But it’s been almost 20 years since fans got a brand new game.
Other than this unbiased confirmation that Sega is working on a follow-up, we don’t know anything about what the future might hold for a possible sequel. Virtua Warrior 6. Akira Yuki and other familiar faces are likely to return, but anything is possible for characters and mechanics.
