World Heroes Anthology is a compilation for the PlayStation 2 featuring the World Heroes fighting game series developed by SNK. This anthology includes World Heroes, World Heroes 2, World Heroes Jet, and World Heroes Perfect, offering 56 unique characters. Players engage in combat using a mix of hand-to-hand and weapon-based moves, alongside special abilities, in a tournament organized by the scientist Dr. Brown across time.
World Heroes Anthology is the complete collection (on one disc) of one of SNK's most popular 2D fighting game series World Heroes. The titles included are: World Heroes, World Heroes 2, World Heroes Jet, and World Heroes Perfect. The collection contains 56 characters using hand-to-hand and weapons based fighting mixed with special super-human abilities enabling each character to perform special attacks.
World Heroes Anthology follows the storyline of Dr. Brown, a scientist, who having perfected a time machine has organized a fighting tournament throughout all of history to see who is the best fighter of all time. True to this plot, many of the fighters are based on actual historical figures.