Street Fighter 4 Review
March 9, 2009 by Kepher
Filed under Featured Games, Reviews
Without any doubt Street Fighter 4 is the biggest new fighting game release in a long time, and in many ways it does manage to live up to it’s billing.
The Street Fighter series was a classic even when I was a kid around a decade and a half ago, and the great old characters that I grew up with are still there: Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Blanka, E. Honda, Zangief, Guile, Dhalsim, Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison are all back with enough continuity to make them feel familiar, and enough new moves and featues to keep it interesting, and they are joined by 6 brand new fighters including an MMA (mixed martial arts) grappler which brings the martial arts bang up to date.
There are no weak characters, which is a welcome rarity and means you can really compete with all of them. The best new feature, in my opinion, is the way you can come out of the big special moves and into another strike without having to let the whole animation run through, which allows for bigger and more powerful combos. It isn’t easy to do, but it really raises the bar on thetop skill level that you can reach.
The only real minus from my perspective is the problems you get when trying to play multiplayer, namely the difficulty of playing online when not everyone always has a fast enough connection to keep up with the gameplay, and the lack of a tournament mode. But you can still have good multiplayer games, and in single player mode it is the best fighting game I’ve ever played (which is exactly what I was expecting from it).
Overall its easy enough to pick up when you first start playing, with plenty to keep you going so you won’t get bored with it too soon and you’ll get descent value for money (I know it makes me sound a bit tight but as I have limited money to spend on games this is important to me), and the graphics are truly awesome.
The widgets below contain links to buy the game for any platform if you are interested, along with my pick of the best special editions and accessories available from Amazon. The first one is for USA, the second one UK:
