{"id":852,"date":"2020-06-16T08:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/?p=852"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:08:35","slug":"super-street-fighter-iv-arcade-edition-3q2018-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/super-street-fighter-iv-arcade-edition-3q2018-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Street Fighter IV<\/span> Arcade Edition \u2014 3Q2018<\/span> issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Father of fight\u00ading games gets super upgrade<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gone are the days of roam\u00ading a local arcade to play the throng of would-be chal\u00adlengers and pre\u00adtenders to the throne of the best local fight\u00ading game cham\u00adpi\u00adon. In its place are home con\u00adsoles designed to push the pow\u00ader of the arcade. Fight\u00ading game fran\u00adchis\u00ades have had to keep up or suf\u00adfer irrel\u00ade\u00advan\u00adcy or, worse yet, extinc\u00adtion. The ear\u00adli\u00adest king of the genre, Street Fight\u00ader, has had a chal\u00adlenge of sorts: con\u00adtin\u00adue for\u00adward or go the way of its ride-a-longs of the \u201890s. Super Street Fight\u00ader IV<\/span> attempts to con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion with most\u00adly success.<\/span><\/p>\n

Super SFIV<\/span>, at its core, is a fight\u00ading fan\u2019s dream. A robust engine with plen\u00adty of options for either the novice or the advanced, SSFIV<\/span> makes play\u00ading a fight\u00ading game easy. Even if you haven\u2019t played since the hey\u00adday of SFII<\/span>, there\u2019s a lot of com\u00adpelling con\u00adtent here to draw you in and get you start\u00aded in the world of com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtive dig\u00adi\u00adtal fight\u00ading. Var\u00adi\u00adous modes are here, ready for a deep dive, and there are more than enough new char\u00adac\u00adters and old stal\u00adwarts to make fight\u00ading inter\u00adest\u00ading. The gen\u00ader\u00adal rule of thumb is, if the char\u00adac\u00adter was in SFII<\/span> and its deriv\u00ada\u00adtives, SFIII<\/span> or SF<\/span> Alpha, there\u2019s a good chance they are avail\u00adable for play in SSFIV<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fight locales asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with many of the char\u00adac\u00adters are avail\u00adable with a great sound\u00adtrack accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading them. SSFIV<\/span> does an excep\u00adtion\u00adal job of remind\u00ading more expe\u00adri\u00adenced fight\u00ading enthu\u00adsi\u00adasts of the Street Fight\u00ader ori\u00adgins and piquing the curios\u00adi\u00adty of new\u00ader fight fans. The con\u00adtrols also hear\u00adken to the old days, so much so that it\u2019s easy to pick up and play and learn about the dif\u00adfer\u00adent sys\u00adtems afford\u00aded to each char\u00adac\u00adter. Most new char\u00adac\u00adters will play like an old\u00ader char\u00adac\u00adter on the ros\u00adter so it\u2019s easy to learn the nuance of fight\u00ading with a new\u00adcom\u00ader if you\u2019re expe\u00adri\u00adenced with pre\u00advi\u00adous SF<\/span> games. If you aren\u2019t expe\u00adri\u00adenced, there\u2019s a great tuto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal mode that runs through com\u00adbo and movesets of each char\u00adac\u00adter to teach the basics. That var\u00adied lev\u00adel of depth goes a long way toward replay value.<\/span><\/p>\n

My one gripe out of all the love\u00adli\u00adness that is the mixed nos\u00adtal\u00adgia fest of SSFIV<\/span> is that it\u2019s Cap\u00adcom being Cap\u00adcom as usu\u00adal. For the unini\u00adti\u00adat\u00aded, Cap\u00adcom gained a rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion in the \u201990s for hav\u00ading a sol\u00adid fran\u00adchise in Street Fight\u00ader II<\/span> but not being able to count to three. The con\u00adstant upgrad\u00ading and reis\u00adsu\u00ading of SFII<\/span> got old quick\u00adly. And, quite frankly, Cap\u00adcom hasn\u2019t learned its les\u00adson because Street Fight\u00ader IV<\/span> should not have mul\u00adti\u00adple retail ver\u00adsions of its upgrades. Arcade Edi\u00adtion should have been an update that could be bought dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adly and down\u00adloaded to patch the game up to what\u00adev\u00ader ver\u00adsion Cap\u00adcom want\u00aded con\u00adsumers to have. Even when the orig\u00adi\u00adnal ver\u00adsion was released, the capa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty was there. This just screams of cash grab and Cap\u00adcom being igno\u00adrant of tire\u00adsome tac\u00adtics wear\u00ading on the fan base. The fact that Ultra Street Fight\u00ader IV<\/span> \u2014 one more ver\u00adsion beyond this one \u2014 exists is proof pos\u00adi\u00adtive of this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oth\u00ader than the fias\u00adco of mul\u00adti\u00adple ver\u00adsions, Cap\u00adcom has a sol\u00adid win\u00adner on its hands with the fourth entry in the long-run\u00adning series even as it fades into the back\u00adground in favor of SFV<\/span>. If SFV<\/span> is not your cup of tea, but you want to stay cur\u00adrent with the world of Street Fight\u00ader, SFIV<\/span> is a good bal\u00adance and at the right price now to delve into the world of Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li.<\/span><\/p>\n