Street Fighter IV, baby. It’s here and it’s better than ever. A couple of months ago I could’ve told you straight up that the chances of me getting Street Fighter IV was slim-to-none but after a while of Street Fighter talk and me watching gameplay, I bought into the hype and finally made the faithful decision to get the game.

Street Fighter IV of course has the normal modes like arcade and exhibition but they throw in some challenge modes that I found to be entertaining for a while. One being the Trial Mode. This is my first SF game in the franchise and I did go into the Trial mode expecting it to be a pretty good, helpful mode that’ll help me through the game and it doesn’t do that, at all. It pushes you through the Ultra and Super then pretty much says here do these combos. That isn’t all bad because it’s supposed to help you get your combo timing right but it didn’t help me past that, though. Then you’ve got Time Attack mode which is just you fighting people until the time runs out. Nothing really interesting, it’s just fighting with a strict time limit. You can sometimes run into that situation where there’s like 30 seconds on the clock and you’re on the last competitor and you have to challenge yourself to beat him in that time. Then there’s Survival which is you go through loads of people while not running out of vitality.

This mode is by far the worst. Pretty pointless, hopefully I’m missing something.

The characters in Street Fighter IV are all pretty well done, besides some people who have some very annoying moves that can be constantly spammed and it happens quite a bit online. Not saying any names but Ken, Rufus, Seth, Cammy, Zangief, and sometimes Honda. Besides that, there are some great characters in this game. Ken and Honda are fun as long as nobody spam’s them. Ryu is still the best, just saying. Rufus is also nice, just because he has nice man boobie physics.

Online is spectacular. With really no lag at all and a great drop-in-drop-out system, Street Fighter’s MP is one of the best in the fighting genre. The

battle points are a neat concept but even with the filtering of the skill, I was still constantly running into people much more skilled than me and would just tear me up to no return. This would end in me losing my battle points and being a very sad man.

All-in-all the game is fantastic. The Multiplayer is great and all the stuff you can do out of Multiplayer is a little something to keep you going for weeks on end. One big question is fight stick or no fight stick. I played without one and I lost quite a bit and also got very frustrated quite a bit with doing the Ultra’s and other major moves so if you’ve got the money then yes, definitely get a stick. But still, no matter what, Street Fighter IV is one hell of a game.

Street Fighter IV, baby. It’s here and it’s better than ever. A couple of months ago I could’ve told you straight up that the chances of me getting Street Fighter IV was slim-to-none but after a while of Street Fighter talk and me watching gameplay, I bought into the hype and finally made the faithful decision to get the game.

Street Fighter IV of course has the normal modes like arcade and exhibition but they throw in some challenge modes that I found to be entertaining for a while. One being the Trial Mode. This is my first SF game in the franchise and I did go into the Trial mode expecting it to be a pretty good, helpful mode that’ll help me through the game and it doesn’t do that, at all. It pushes you through the Ultra and Super then pretty much says here do these combos. That isn’t all bad because it’s supposed to help you get your combo timing right but it didn’t help me past that, though. Then you’ve got Time Attack mode which is just you fighting people until the time runs out. Nothing really interesting, it’s just fighting with a strict time limit. You can sometimes run into that situation where there’s like 30 seconds on the clock and you’re on the last competitor and you have to challenge yourself to beat him in that time. Then there’s Survival which is you go through loads of people while not running out of vitality.

This mode is by far the worst. Pretty pointless, hopefully I’m missing something.

The characters in Street Fighter IV are all pretty well done, besides some people who have some very annoying moves that can be constantly spammed and it happens quite a bit online. Not saying any names but Ken, Rufus, Seth, Cammy, Zangief, and sometimes Honda. Besides that, there are some great characters in this game. Ken and Honda are fun as long as nobody spam’s them. Ryu is still the best, just saying. Rufus is also nice, just because he has nice man boobie physics.

Online is spectacular. With really no lag at all and a great drop-in-drop-out system, Street Fighter’s MP is one of the best in the fighting genre. The

battle points are a neat concept but even with the filtering of the skill, I was still constantly running into people much more skilled than me and would just tear me up to no return. This would end in me losing my battle points and being a very sad man.

All-in-all the game is fantastic. The Multiplayer is great and all the stuff you can do out of Multiplayer is a little something to keep you going for weeks on end. One big question is fight stick or no fight stick. I played without one and I lost quite a bit and also got very frustrated quite a bit with doing the Ultra’s and other major moves so if you’ve got the money then yes, definitely get a stick. But still, no matter what, Street Fighter IV is one hell of a game.