![]() They're joined by newcomers Guy, Sodom, Charlie, and Rose. Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Birdie, Adon, and Sagat return from the original Street Fighter. Fortunately, many key ingredients that made Street Fighter the best 2D fighting game-game-play, control, and strategy-remain unchanged. The sixth revision of the original Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha delivers enhanced characters, moves, and combos. An exact arcade translation can't hurt the PlayStation's sales, and Street Fighter Alpha is a winner in every way! Other high points include large characters as they were meant to be portrayed (unlike the versions of MK3), all cinemas have been transferred and new elements like Alpha Counters and the three-level super bar have been added. The play is just as tight, if not tighter than, the arcade version. To cut to the chase: It feels exactly like the arcade. What will most likely sell SFA on the PSX, however, is the game-play-that is what the designers of the game cherish above all. The music and sound is possibly better than the arcade because of its CD quality. All 13 known characters are in the game, including Bison. The characters are the same size, and all the action in the backgrounds has been faithfully reproduced. ![]() The graphics have not changed in the slightest. Such is the case for most in the game: stronger and bulkier-looking characters. At last, Sagat looks like the huge, lumbering oaf he's supposed to be as opposed to the pathetic stick figure in the other games. Ryu and the crowd have metamorphosed into oversized cartoon Darkstalkers-ish cartoon characters. In SSF2T, Capcom was going for a 'realistic as possible for cartoon-style graphics' look. The artwork for the game has been redone as well. They don't fit in anywhere, and the characters themselves turn out to be fairly weak compared to a halfway decent Ken or Ryu player. etc.Some stories, though, only serve to confuse longtime SF players, such as the introductions of Guy and Sodom into the SF universe. The stories do a pretty good job of this, as Bison kills Guile's friend Charlie. Charlie and Rose The idea of the game is to neatly tie up some story loopholes in the Street Fighter universe before the future release of SF3. ![]() SFA gives you 10 characters to choose from: Ryu. Bison trick and all of the other arcade tricks are in there!įor those not familiar with the newest version, you will soon be able to play as all of the original Street Fighter characters in your own home! Street Fighter Alpha promises to be every bit as good on the PSX as it was in the arcade, and it delivers. However, you'll have to find those yourselves as we were sworn to secrecy, but the Ken Ryu vs. Not only that, but we also got to sit down with the programmers and they told (and showed) us the special tricks that will be m the finished version. so our editors packed their bags, hoping to get a glimpse of a better version from the programmers themselves in Japan! Sure enough, the game was on display and we had the very first look at a complete but still buggy version of the game. What to.do? Fortunately there was a PlayStation show on Oct. This certainly wouldn't be good enough for our readers. It had only five characters programmed and what was there was definitely not representative of what the final game would be like. but that the version was still very incomplete. office, we were told that they had only one disc and we could have it. Here it is' we had to go all the way to Japan to get the latest information on Capcom's spectacular PlayStation conversion of the latest in their Street Fighter sense. Or, why not beat up your little brother, or someone else's. ![]() ![]() Though if you really want some retro faceslapping action brought up to date, why not hang around a bit longer for Mortal Kombat 4. The Last Bronx is probably your best bet. There are some new special moves and a training mode, but if you want to experience the game you should be able to find the original somewhere for a fiver.Įven at this mid-price it's hard to find a reason to recommend why anyone should be prepared to shell out on what is basically an ancient beat 'em up that, on the face of it, looks largely unchanged from the original. Graphically it's supposed to have been improved, but the jerky animation and blocky sprites do little to emphasise the point. There isn't nearly enough to justify 'upgrading' from a previous version, and next to more recent titles it looks like the dinosaur that it is. It was ousted, quite rightly, by the Mortal Kombat series, and since that time 30 efforts have more or less taken over, although the genre has lately seen a steep decline. For those too young to have ever squandered their grant on the real ale-encrusted arcade machines down in the Student's Union bar, Street Fighter was one of the last in a long line of 20 beat 'em ups that started with games such as International Karate and Way Of The Exploding Fist back on the old 8-blt home computers. ![]()
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