Street Fighter IV
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Video Game Reviews of Street Fighter IV
Customer Review: Street Fighter IV - great fighting game, best for new 09'ers and old-skoolers
Summary: 4 Stars
Street Fighter IV is a great game, with a huge learning curve, and plenty of new tricks that will satisfy the old-skool players lookin' for some fresh moves, and with enough of a solid SF foundation to please any fighting-game fanatic. They've added things like revenge meter, which builds as you get hit, allowing you to pull out an Ultra combo (to have a fighting chance to get back). Focus Attacks help you to cancel combos or moves and follow them up with other combos or Ultra combos, etc. Also absorbs 1 attack, which can definitely help mix up the fighting style alot for each individual.
The great thing about this game is its variety of characters, bringing in a slew of new guys (Abel, Gouken, El Fuerte, C. Viper, Rufus) and re-introducing some SSF2 turbo guys or Alpha 3 chars (Fei Long, Gen, Rose, Dan, Sakura, Akuma etc)
Only drawback with this game is that with the good balance of some once-weaker characters, some have gotten really strong, and others are struggling to be a threat. Namely, some characters like Ryu, Rufus, Sagat, Balrog have it ridiculously easy to link Ultras to, while others suffer to even get an Ultra out that will do nearly as much damage (Guile, Vega, etc).
The good thing is there is still much to learn about this game, and over time some lesser known characters are becoming more popular when people find ways to use their strengths to their fullest. So we have yet to see if this game will reach a better balance, and there is tons of new tricks i'm certain have not yet been discovered.
Great fighting game, 3D-ish in a 2D plane, beautiful graphics, visuals and combos are funny and look great...Music soundtrack is fine, japanese voices are good, but some of the Engl voice-overs are crappy. Some are great though. If you like Street Fighter and are afraid it will take too long to adjust, don't sweat it...most old skool SF players found it relatively easy to return to this game and do well.
IF you're new to fighting games, this game is easy enough for beginners to get a good grip of the style and do well too.
Customer Review: fun all the way baby
Summary: 5 Stars
this is the best street fighter game so far. the 3d changes are awesome. anyone even a new player in the street fighter saga would find this game interesting. the ultra moves are worth seeing them.Customer Review: Falling behind -- A list of pros and cons
Summary: 3 Stars
Pros:
*Graphics are great
*Smooth online play (easy to see connectivity)
*Backgrounds are beautiful
*The music is remixed from the classic tracks of SFII. Very nice work here
*For the most part plays like SFII when it comes to old characters...
Cons:
*...it seems it is just SFII or SFIII with a high gloss paint (no really big leaps with this game engine? disappointing)
*New characters are weak additions at best
*Characters not included: T. Hawk, Dee Jay from SFII and if you actually liked cast members other than Sakura from the Alpha, EX or SFIII your going to be disappointed
* Repeat combos used by Ryu, Ken, Akuma etc. make cheap gameplay standard fair online
*25 characters would be fine, but many of them aren't worth using
*Backgrounds don't effect game play
*I don't care if they ever go from a 2D to a 3D fighting plane but the random invisible wall you can back people should be a thing of the past after all these years. Fireballs out the palms, CHECK. Flaming uppercuts, CHECK. Random invisible block to the greatest warriors in the world...kind of silly at this point.
This game looks like it should be better than it is. This much tech seems wasted with no vast improvements.
Customer Review: Great game, but...........
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an awesome game, one of the best in the series. The graphics are outstanding and the fighting is fluid. I haven't tried the online play yet, but I hear it's amazing. The only problem I had with this purchase was the shipping time, I bought it the same day as my 360 and received it 3 weeks after I received my system. I'm going to stay away from Maxcor MG and buy direct from Amazon if possible. Customer Review: Great game...but difficulty wise...ehhhh
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased SF4 for the xbox, hoping its gameplay would be fun and basic. When I got home, I popped the disc in the system, and fired it up. Let me point things first. The game is beautifully made, graphics are stunning, sounds is great, and I'm totally digging the dual voice audio option, theres just one thing that does disappoint me...the difficulty level. This game is extremely hard, combos are ridiculously hard to pull off, and on arcade mode, I can't even get past the 6th round...ON MEDIUM. Online gameplay is very fun and very well organized. I would definitely recommend this game to anyone, just be warned, its not as easy as it looks, you can't just button mash, you actually have to think your moves out, and do your combos right, or you'll end up losing severely.