Virtua Fighter 6's New-Look Wolf Hawkfield Has More Than a Whiff of Ganondorf About Him — and Impressive Muscle Jiggle Physics

Sega has revealed different playable quality for its upcoming caller Virtua Fighter game: Wolf Hawkfield.

Wolf is simply a Canadian nonrecreational wrestler of Native American descent who debuted successful the archetypal Virtua Fighter crippled successful 1993 and has appeared arsenic a playable quality successful each installment successful the bid since. His inclusion successful the upcoming caller Virtua Fighter comes arsenic nary surprise, but what has raised eyebrows is his caller look.

This caller Wolf looks a batch older than his erstwhile versions, and, arsenic galore fans person pointed out, helium besides looks a spot similar Ganondorf, the main villain from The Legend of Zelda games.

Sega’s announcement video shows Wolf’s walk-out scene, which fans are joking offers much communicative than he’s ever had earlier successful a Virtua Fighter crippled before. The announcer’s intro touches connected Wolf’s melodramatic instrumentality to the satellite of warring aft his “controversial status that shocked the world.” Perhaps this caller Virtua Fighter volition connection a proper, fleshed retired communicative mode.

The video lacks gameplay, but it does amusement conscionable however elaborate the quality models are adjacent now, seemingly years distant from Virtua Fighter’s release. As Wolf walks retired we spot rather noticeable musculus jiggle physics astatine play. Clearly, Wolf has kept himself successful bully signifier implicit the years.

Virtua Fighter 6, arsenic it’s being called by fans successful lieu of an authoritative title, is successful improvement astatine Yakuza / Like a Dragon workplace Ryo Ga Gotoku and is without a merchandise model oregon people platforms. Virtua Fighter hasn’t seen a mainline merchandise successful years, leaving mini-game appearances successful Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza games and the 2021 merchandise of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown to tide fans over.

In January, Sega released what it called a “pre-development conception video” for Virtua Fighter 6, but made wide it does not bespeak however the upcoming warring crippled volition look and play erstwhile it yet comes out.

The video, shown during Nvidia laminitis and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote code astatine CES 2025, features incredibly realistic and fluid animations for a warring game. We spot an Akira reflector lucifer with the benignant of combat usually reserved for a martial arts movie.

Virtua Fighter, which includes characters specified arsenic Akira Yuki, Pai Chan, and Wolf Hawkfield, is connected the hardcore extremity of the warring crippled spectrum, with slower-paced gameplay that challenges players to maestro its mechanics successful bid to bask success. Virtua Fighter 5, which archetypal released successful 2006, is considered 1 of the top warring games of each time.

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