Sunday’s VF Direct 2025 Spring presentation confirmed off a modernized design for Virtua Fighter veteran Wolf Hawkfield within the type of a quick clip and flashy introduction. Enjoying into the character’s wrestling DNA, the teaser exhibits Wolf rising from a smoke-filled runway with pyrotechnics that might make Vince McMahon rethink his life decisions.
An announcer is heard within the trailer narrating what Wolf has been as much as since followers final noticed him in Virtua Fighter 5, revealing that the wrestler had retired from the ring and returned as a heel. And what emerges from the smoke is an older, hardened Wolf Hawkfield, who seems nearly precisely like Ganondorf if Nintendo had commissioned him to be reimagined within the Yakuza universe.
New Virtua Fighter Undertaking producer Riichiro Yamada spoke a bit about Wolf and the remainder of the solid’s new appearances within the upcoming title. Yamada defined within the teaser that not a lot had been beforehand recognized about Wolf’s “motivations for preventing.” Sega regarded to treatment this perceived concern with the brand new recreation. Yamada introduced that VF6 is “nonetheless in improvement” and that all the franchise’s legacy characters can be getting wealthy origin tales.
However why does Wolf appear to be Ganondorf? The reply could lie in VF6’s newly fleshed-out lore — you’ll simply have to attend a bit longer for that reply. (Or it merely may very well be a coincidence.)
In different VF information, Sega is certainly porting Virtua Fighter 5 as soon as once more! The VF Direct 2025 Spring showcase revealed that the newest replace to VF5 will make its option to Nintendo Change 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X at an undisclosed date. Moreover, the sport will obtain rollback netcode and “characteristic full cross-play,” based on a information launch from Sega. Curiously, there seems to be much more information coming for the brand new Virtua Fighter 5 REVO port because the press launch particulars that “a number of further content material updates are presently within the works, with particulars to be introduced at a later date.”
It’s presently unclear when followers can anticipate to play Virtua Fighter 6, buy Virtua Fighter 5 REVO for Change 2, PS5, and Xbox Collection X, or use off-brand Ganondorf within the new recreation. However it’s cool that Nintendo is branching out like this. What’s subsequent? Hyperlink being playable in a Bandai Namco preventing recreation?