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This might be the most accessible Street Fighter game to date. Capcom has once again taken the fighting game genre to a new level when it comes to gameplay mechanics. Combos are simplified and the execution of special moves have become easier to input. It’s a welcome change to the execution heavy Street Fighter 4. It also introduces new mechanics that I found much more enjoyable than in the previous game. Fighting games are all about the fighting. This is exactly what Street Fighter V excels at, however, the lack of modes at launch is a bit of a letdown.
There are roughly three modes in Street Fighter V besides training mode. Survival which sets you up against a preset lineup of opponents with varying difficulties. The higher the difficulty becomes, the longer the gauntlet of fighters. In between each match, players can spend points they earn through fighting to help them stay in the fight longer. Survival mode is the closest thing to an arcade mode in Street Fighter V. The story mode fleshes out individual characters through 3 single round fights. The “story” part of it comes in between with some still images and dialogue. The stories are absurd and some are downright silly. I won’t spoil of any of the hilarious dialogue, but know that it fell into the “it’s so bad, it’s good” category for me. These two modes round out the single player components of the game. While there, of course, is a versus mode to play against a friend, the single player content is extremely lacking.
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Every Street Fighter is called a misstep of the series since Street Fighter III..and even the Alpha games were not liked by everyone.
SF V had a miserable start but later it did a lot things actually better than SFIV and SF6.
SF6 is the first SF since SFII Turbo for that I did not buy at launch. And today, around 6 months after its launch I still have no motivation to buy it.
I've had every Street Fighter on launch since SFII on the SNES. SFV is definitely my least played of them all.
SF6 is very good. You should give it a second look.
Maybe in 2-3 years when there is a version that has characters I care for.
So far there is not one of the new characters I like..and my favourite 4 are not a part of it either. (Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega) + the whole hip hop style and the crappy music turned me totally off.
Looking forward a lot to Tekken 8.
SF4 vanilla was loved by most and and not considered a misstep. It wasn't until they went revision crazy that people started turning on Capcom.
Don't remember the criticques it got for the big hands and feet, the sometimes weird looking faces, the lame boss (Seth) and that so many characters were shotos and yup..the many new versions. Just every SF got its haters no matter how good it was.
It was criticized for the first trailers having an interesting art style with those ink splashes, but the real game had none of that and people felt cheated. And Capcom decided to add some of those effects in the game later because of the backlash. But I don't remember any other big complaints about it.
I grew out of fighting games, loved them as a kid but online you just get your ass kicked over and over leaving just the bare bones single player and also having no friends anymore who like fighting games either just makes me not want to buy or play them anymore.
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Pretty balanced review, not sure I agree with the score. I'm also a little disappointed with the lack of content at launch and no store.
However, it's kind of tough to get a feel for a game when so much of the content isn't being released at launch.