Project Justice

Project Justice is the sequel to Rival Schools: United By Fate. Project Justice's combat system is taken from the original Rival Schools, with some notable changes. The game is still a team fighter, but the teams consist of three characters instead of two. This allows for another team-up attack to be used in a fight, but there is also a new attack type, the Party-Up, which is triggered by pressing any three attack buttons. The Party-Up is a three-person attack that differs depending on the school of the character that triggers the attack. The additional partner also allows players to cancel an opponent's Team-Up Special by entering a Team-Up command of their own. This will trigger a short combat sequence between one character from each team. If the person triggering the sequence lands the first successful hit during the sequence before time runs out, the Team-Up they are caught in will be cancelled and the game will switch back to the main fight; if the opposing player lands the first hit or time runs out, the Team-Up will continue as normal. Also, the power meter in Project Justice is limited to 5 levels (down from 9 in Rival Schools), with party-ups requiring all 5 levels, team-ups still costing two levels, and each attempt (successful or not) to cancel a team-up costing one level. The Dreamcast port of Project Justice in Japan also includes a character creation mode, allowing players to create their own fighters that can be used in all modes except single player. However, the character creation in Project Justice is packaged as a board game that takes place during a school festival, rather than a date simulation like in Rival Schools. Like the school life mode in Rival Schools, this board game is not included in the non-Japanese ports of Project Justice, as it would be too time-consuming to translate the mode. Instead, several unlockable side characters have been included in these ports, based on the character creation portions of the Japanese version.