Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter IV brings the legendary fighting series back to its roots by taking the beloved fighting moves and techniques of the original Street Fighter II, and infusing them with Capcom's latest advancements in next generation technology. The result is a truly extraordinary experience destined to reintroduce players, both familiar with the Street Fighter series and those coming to the game for the first time, to the time-honored art of virtual martial arts.

What Was Old is New Again
Knowing a good thing when they see it, Capcom has gone to great lengths to ensure that everything that made the legendary Street Fighter II a hit in the arcades, living rooms and dormitories across the globe all those years ago has been brought back in Street Fighter IV, and this naturally starts with the characters. Fans of the franchise, as well as the fighting genre in general, will be happy to know that whether you prefer to stick with the superior abilities of top tier characters or explore the ins and outs of mid to lower level combatants, when it comes time to pick your fighter there is a wide array of choices. Also, not only will players be able to play as and against their favorite classic characters, such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief, Blanka, Sagat, etc., they will also be able to take on new characters. Just a few of these include:

Abel
This young French amnesiac comes from a mixed martial arts and mercenary background and is dedicated to chasing down the remnants of Shadaloo.

Crimson Viper
This tough and beautiful agent assumes a businesslike demeanor, ignoring all emotion and obligation to her fellow man. She wears a high-tech suit filled with deadly gadgetry..

El Fuerte
This fighter divides his time between perfecting his Lucha Libre skills and his cooking abilities, yet surprisingly his indomitable spirit is a match for even the legendary Red Cyclone.

Rufus
This portly fighter has declared himself America's greatest fighter and uses his own brand of Kung Fu in his decidedly one-sided rivalry with Ken for top dog in the States.

In addition, characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Six-button controls for the game return, with a host of new special moves and features integrated into the gameplay system. Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting game to fans the world over.

Key Game Features:

* 3D environments and characters.
* Traditional "2D" Street Fighter six-button gameplay.
* Classic Street Fighter characters re-imagined for a new generation of gamers, including the original cast of Street Fighter II.
* New brawlers: female super-spy Crimson Viper, lucha libre wrestler El Fuerte, mixed martial artist Abel and more.
* New special moves that go beyond any Street Fighter fan's wildest imagination, including Focus Attacks, Super Combos, and the revenge-fueled Ultra Combo system.
* Amazing locations never seen before in a Street Fighter game.
* New gameplay elements provide challenges for both newcomers as well as the most seasoned Street Fighter pro.

New Combat Features: Focus Attacks and Ultra Combos
Although Street Fighter IV is designed to draw heavily from past game features in its franchise history, it does offer some stunning new gameplay options. The first of these are Focus Attacks. These moves allow players to absorb the energy from an attack and quickly counter with their own. Used properly, Focus Attacks allow for tremendous flexibility during combat and are the end result of efforts by the game's development team to evolve combat away from the rigid memorization of set combination patterns, giving players the freedom to be creative against opponents. The other new combat feature are new powered up moves called Ultra Combos. Like standard combos their purpose is to unleash maximum damage on an opponent, but unlike the combos of old, when performed correctly these long strings of punches, kicks and moves result in changes to the in-game camera angle and quick cinematics which illustrate the strength of your skills like never before. Taken together, these two new features herald Street Fighter IV as the new king of the fighter genre and a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

Product Features
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Standard

* 3D environments and characters. Traditional 2D Street Fighter six-button gameplay. Amazing locations never seen before in a Street Fighter game.
* Classic Street Fighter characters re-imagined for a new generation of gamers, including the original cast of Street Fighter II.
* New brawlers: female super-spy Crimson Viper, lucha libre wrestler El Fuerte, mixed martial artist Abel and more!
* New special moves that go beyond any Street Fighter fan¿s wildest imagination, including Focus Attacks, Super Combos, and the revenge-fueled Ultra Combo system.
* New gameplay elements provide challenges for both newcomers as well as the most seasoned Street Fighter pro.

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection

Product Features
Platform: PlayStation2

* Go to back to the arcade without leaving the house, by playing Hyper Street Fighter II
* Play a complete version of the arcade smash, Street Fighter III - 3rd Strike
* Have your dream matches as you take on characters taken from SFII, Champion Edition, Hyper Fighter, The New Challengers and Super Street Fighter II Turbo

SFAC features Hyper Street Fighter 2 from Japan (which is a compalation of all previous SF 2 games) as well as a new game. All versions of characters from every previous SF 2 game (SF 2, Turbo, Special Champion Edition, Super SF 2, and Super SF 2 Turbo) are playable. There is also "Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie" within the game. This game is being released on PS 2 and XBox (hopefully GC as well) and is a must-have for 2-D fighting game fans, esp. Street Fighter 2. I first played this game more than 10 yrs. ago, and I still love it! SFAC has gotten very good reviews from GameSpot and other sites.

- Street Fighter II

My fond memories of playing Street Fighter II at the arcades, but I would probably still say that I love Street Fighter Anniversary Collection even if I hadn't played Street Fighter II before. The game includes Hyper Street Fighter II(a blend of a number of Street Fighter II versions) and includes Street Fighter III. Both of these games are good on there own, and the fact they are together makes this game a must buy. This is a very good port.

- Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting

Street Fighter II is the most influential fighting game ever created. If that wasn't released in 1991, you wouldn't be playing Soul Calibur or Tekken or Virtua Fighter or Dead-or-Alive or Mortal Kombat...or even Fatal Fury! Considering the immense success of the SNES version of SF2, Capcom decided to do a SNES version of the game's second "sequel" - Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting. This version includes playable bosses, minor alterations to the original fighters and of course, turbo speed.

The first thing you'll notice as you turn on the game is its quality. The graphics and sound effects are as vibrant and powerful as they can get on a SNES conversion! Although lacking the extreme detail and heavy animation of Capcom's modern 2-D fighting games, it had great graphics for its time. The sound effects are plain dazzling! Memorable background music includes...hell, all of 'em! You can also listen to all the audio in the game in the options menu.

If you've played any of the other fighters by Capcom, you'll pick up the controls in ten seconds. There are three kick buttons and three punch buttons. Blocking is performed by pressing the control pad left or right. Special moves are standard Capcom fare and nothing complicated except maybe (though not for me) Zangief's spinning piledriver. The replay value is higher by far than its sequel Super SF2, in which the poor sound kills the long-lasting appeal, or any other 16-bit fighting game. The turbo speed is just the icing on an already solid cake. Plus, if you enter a secret code you can play on a ten-star speed setting, which should be experienced at least once! The playable bosses complement the old fighters with their diversity of moves, and the original cast have a couple of new moves as well.

This is definitely my most-played video game, and with good reason. For those of you who still have a SNES, I simply can't think of a better fighting game you could buy! If you have SF2, then this may not be necessary (although I think it would still be worth checking out due to the low price).

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- Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter IV brings the legendary fighting series back to its roots by taking the beloved fighting moves and techniques of the original Street Fighter II, and infusing them with Capcom¿s latest advancements in next generation technology to create a truly extraordinary experience that will re-introduce the world to the time-honored art of virtual martial arts. Everything that made the legendary Street Fighter II a hit in the arcades, living rooms and dormitories across the globe has been brought back in Street Fighter IV. Players will be able to play their favorite classic characters, such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile, along with new characters, including Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuerte, and Rufus. Characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Six-button controls for the game return, with a host of new special moves and features integrated into the gameplay system. Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting game to fans the world over.

- Street Fighter Alpha 3

Street fighter, I think is a very good game. The picture is excellent, the story is also interesting. I have played many times but I never get bored. I've owned this game for over a year now and I have yet to get tired. Learning the characters and different abilities and finding the new characters is always a challenge. It's also quicker than your normal Street Fighter Game.

- Super Street Fighter II- Turbo Revival

Street Fighter II needs absolutely no introduction, being one of the top fighting games of all time. What does need explaining is how great a transition it has made to the GameBoy Advance. It's a perfect translation of the SNES game, down to the move animations and entire cast of characters. Now added to the gameplay are special points you gain for fighting in the one-player mode. These points go towards unlocking new game options, and are a good addition to the replay value. The only problem with the game is the lack of buttons needed to pull off the classic moves, but after playing for a bit this won't seem like such an obstacle anymore. Capcom shouldn't be blamed for the restrictions of the system. Rather, they should be applauded for bringing such a classic onto the GBA in almost perfect form. Awesome game.

- Street Fighter Collection

I had this collection ever since it first came out some 9 years ago or maybe I'm off a little. The games featured on this are Super SF, Super SF Turbo, & SF Alpha 2 Gold. There all standouts to me. Perfect arcade translations. The graphics and music is intact and the controls are perfect. SF Alpha Gold is SF alpha 2 with a few additions. A survival mode, akuma mode(where you face off with Shin Akuma)Cammy is playable only in versus mode, and Evil Ryu & Shin Akuma are playable also. You just place the cursor on them and press start. Its a very good collection that will satisfy SF fans.

- Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max

If the Street Fighter series were to ever have a swan song--yes, we all know it won't--then surely Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP would be it. Not only is it just an excellent port of an arcade game, but it also has one of the best rosters of any fighting game to date, along with enough extras to keep any sort of fighting fan busy for hours on end. And yes, in case you're wondering, it is almost too good to be true. Alpha 3's only downfall is the PSP itself, or more specifically, its D-pad, which doesn't really offer the total precision needed to execute moves the way that a game like this requires.

- Street Fighter Anniversary Collection

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection is basically two games on one disc: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition. The trick is that while "Hyper Street Fighter 2" sounds like a game you've played before, the version in this package lets you choose any character from any Street Fighter 2 game up to Super Turbo. It answers the dream match up questions of who would win in a fight between Guile from the original Street Fighter 2 and Blanka from Super Street Fighter 2.

It can be a lot of fun exploring different match-ups and sorting out which versions of each character you prefer. You'll spend hours reminding yourself of what the differences are. An obvious issue with throwing all these characters together is whether they will be balanced -- is it fair to put Akuma from Super Turbo up against Ryu from the original SF2? The game certainly is not perfect in this respect; you can be competitive with the characters from the older games if you know what you're doing, but we wouldn't recommend the game for tournament play.

- Street Fighter Alpha Anthology

The Alpha Anthology, is so far the best port of any Street Fighter collection. It includes five games (SF Alpha, Alpha 2, Alpha 2 Gold, Alpha 3, and Gem Fighter), as well as two unlockable games (Hyper SF Alpha and a "bonus" version of SF Alpha 3).
The graphics and music of the five titles are perfect, just like the original arcade games themselves. If you have a wide-aspect ratio TV, you'll be treated to full arcade goodness - if not, you can modify the aspect ratio so that it fits a standard TV. Controls are also flawless, much like those of the Anniversary Collection.
The unlockable games are as follows:
"bonus" SF Alpha 3: It's SF Alpha 3 with more fighting styles, and all (most?) the Street Fighter characters, drawn Alpha-style. This includes characters that have never before made it into Alpha games - like Balrog and Fei Long, and some that are brand new. When played alone, this game is very difficult.
Hyper SF Alpha: Very similar to SF Alpha 3 (in fact, I'm not sure what the exact differences are, in terms of gameplay), but can only be played against another opponent. Includes the same characters as "bonus" SFA3.
In addition, all Alpha games include a Versus mode with full win/loss tallying, a Dramatic Battle mode - in which two players (Human/Human or Human/CPU) simultaneously take on a single CPU player and a Survival mode, which places you against opponent after opponent, refilling only a portion of your life bar after each match.
To sum it up, the Alpha Anthology is the best SF collection Capcom has released. Here's to hoping that the Darkstalkers and Marvel series will follow a similar suit.