To Hadouken, or Not To Hadouken.
This post is a little bit about Capcom’s remake of Street Fighter 4. I played this game at MicroCenter the other day, and firstly, I must say that Capcom did an excellent job with re-making the graphics engine. The high-def monitor that the game was being demoed on only added to the impressiveness. The sharp 3-D graphics engine applies to the backgrounds as well, which have been brilliantly done for this remake.
All of your favorite classic Street Fighters are back, such as Cammie, Chun Li, Ken, Vega, Dhalsim, Balrog, M. Bison, E. Honda, and the other originals, as well as some additional new fighters: Dan, El Fuerte, Fei Long, Gen, Gouken, and more. In addition, in Arcade mode, each character has sort of an “Anime” cutscene involving them joining the street fighter tournament. Even though this is a Japanese game, as much as I dislike anime, I find these cutscenes to be very well done and smoothly added into the game.
Character gameplay is very smoothly edited and each character’s moves are seamless in transition. I was using Vega for the game demo, and I will be the first to admit, even though I am not good at fighting games, Konami could have gone with more of a Mortal Kombat control system to pull off combos. I found myself pulling off combos out of sheer luck and button mashing instead of accuracy in button pressing. there are also “Ultra” and “Super” combos for each character, which deal massive damage, but some of which are quite hard to execute. I managed to pull off Vega’s super by sheer luck. He jumps in the air, and flips over and pancakes the opponent about three times… not really impressive, but different characters have different supers.
Overall, Street Fighter 4 is good with graphics, but I didn’t find the combos to follow any coherent string. It was all button-mashing and moving the joystick wildly with the hope that you’ll get lucky and pull off something that’s actually good. Other than that, if you’re good at fighting games of any type, you can’t go wrong with this. I’ll give it 7/10
TIP:
- Start a game in Arcade mode, and set it to the easiest difficulty and one round. With any character, press [Hard Kick] repeatedly. You should defeat the CPU every time. After you have defeated all CPU opponents with every character, all characters except for Akuma and Gouken will be unlocked. To get “Perfects” and “Ultra Finishes” easier to unlock Akuma and Gouken, if a round is not going as desired, press Start on a second controller.
(Courtesy of Cheat Code Central)
