Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid

The near perfect mechanics of Battle for the Grid aren’t enough to make this a game worth playing. You’ll have a few fun nights with your buddies partaking in some ranger on ranger violence, but you’ll quickly find yourself returning to other mainstream fighting games.

The best way to explain Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is that it has the potential to be great, it just isn’t close to being there. Perhaps the best example of it falling short are the character introductions. If you watch the video above, I included four, which is about half, of the characters introductions, and outside of Drakkon, they’re silent, awkward and just feel unfinished (Drakkon could pass off as complete and really gives you an idea of what the others are missing).

A Marvel vs. Capcom-inspired Power Rangers game is something that arguably needed to be made for fans and hopefully, given time and effort by the developers, Battle for the Grid will become the Power Rangers experience fans have been waiting for. It's just not there yet.

Under all of Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid's poor graphics, anemic content, and bugs is the beating heart of a mechanically sound 2D fighter.