Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. assembles nineteen of the world's most skilled martial artists for the Fifth World Fighting Tournament. Invitations have been sent and accepted; the competitors are now in the final stages of preparation. Each fighter carries the lessons of past defeats, and every weakness identified in previous tournaments has been drilled out of them in training. In a competition with no room for error, the gap between preparation and regret is measured in fractions of a second.