Legend Clash

Legend Clash is an American fighting video game series, being published by Activision since May 17th, 2004.

Synopsis
Various legendary warriors compete in a tournament to gain eternal knowledge from the tree of worlds, Yggdrasil.

Games

 * Legend Clash (2004)
 * Legend Clash 2 (2006)
 * TBD (2008, 2009 or 2010)

From Legend Clash

 * /Sun Wukong/ (voiced by Dante Basco) - a powerful monkey warrior who competes in the tournament and wields a staff he can use a weapon as he just does it to have people to fight.
 * /Hua Mulan/ (voiced by Lauren Tom) - a skilled warrior who is a master at various types of attacks including range and close as she wants the knowledge to end her country's rule against women in the army.
 * /Arthur Pendragon/ (voiced by Nolan North) - a noble king who wields the sword known as Excalibur as he joins the tournament to figure out where the Holy Grail is.
 * /Artemis/ (voiced by Tara Strong) - a skilled archer who joins the tournament to find the ultimate hunt and become the ultimate archer.
 * /Vlad Dracula/ (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - the main antagonist of the series who is a terrifying fighter as he wants the knowledge to find a way to summon terrifying monsters to the world.
 * /Perchta/ (voiced by Jennifer Hale) - a feminine trickster figure who leads the mythical Wild Hunt and joined the tournament for the fun of it.
 * /Victor Frankenstein/ (voiced by Jeffrey Combs) - a mentally insane mad scientist who wears a giant mech and joins the tournament to finally create life.
 * /Captain Ahab/ (voiced by Mark Hamill) - a wrathful sailor with an obsession of hunting a whale known as Moby Dick as he joined the tournament to figure out where he is.
 * /Brunhilde/ (voiced by Nika Futterman) - a female warrior who is a part of a group known as Valkyries who joined the tournament to strip herself of immortality.
 * /Isis/ (voiced by Kimberly Brooks) - an Egyptian goddess who joined the tournament to bring back her dead lover.

From Legend Clash 2

 * /Sherlock Holmes/ (voiced by TBD) - a detective who is a master martial artist and joined the second tournament to solve the one case he couldn't solve.
 * /Hester Pryne/ (voiced by TBD) - a woman who can use Holy Magic as a weapon as she joined the second tournament to hopefully bring her dead lover back.
 * /Wilbur Whately/ (voiced by John DiMaggio) - the son of Yog-Sottoth who is a terrifying fighter and joined the tournament to free his father.
 * Red Ridding Hood (voiced by Kath Soucie) - a warrior who wears a red cloak as she can turn into a werewolf as she joined the second tournament to cure herself of the wolf side.
 * John Henry (voiced by TBD) - a railway worker who is extremely strong and joined the tournament to prove his strength to everyone.
 * TBD (voiced by TBD) - TBD
 * Pecos Bill (voiced by TBD) - TBD
 * Madeline Usher (voiced by TBD) - TBD

From Legend Clash

 * Yggdrasil (voiced by TBD) - a giant god-like tree who will grant anyone eternal power with his sap which holds knowledge of the universe.

From Legend Clash 2

 * [introduce actual bosses here instead]

Gameplay
The game is a 2D fighter that has you pick one fighter to do either the story mode, the arcade mode, free play or some new features introduced in later games including: Boss Rush a mode where you get to fight various bosses (introduces in 2), TBD. The common moveset includes melee attack, ranged attack, block, grab, throw, jump attack, 6 combos and 3 supermoves.

Trivia

 * The choice to use characters from myths and public domain books is to not worry about crafting characters and to craft new takes on old figures.
 * The characters with the most creative reimaginings for the game are Victor Frankenstein, Hester Pryne, Ridding Hood, TBD.