Fighting Vipers 2

The armor system, dashes, and the ability to hurl an opponent through a wall are all retained from the original Fighting Vipers. In addition, Fighting Vipers 2 adds on Super K.O.s, which allow players to defeat an opponent in a single round (instead of by winning two out of three rounds) using a specifically timed multicombo attack.

AM2's Hiroshi Kataoka told Sega Saturn Magazine that development began in early 1997 after work on Fighters Megamix for the Saturn had concluded, and lasted for ten months. Members of the development team visited Alcatraz early on in the project for inspiration for the caged stages and the character designs were inspired by the "fashionable sports that are being played by young people today, such as BMX riding and skateboarding along with their associated music culture". Motion capture was utilised for the opening sequences and winning and losing poses, but the majority of animation was done by hand.

Both of the new characters were designed by Imai Toonz.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Fighting Vipers 2 on their June 15, 1998 issue as being the second most-successful arcade game of the month.

Jim Preston reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "Dreamcast software sales were always sluggish in Japan, and with mediocre titles like this it's not hard to see why."