SSF2T!!! About time too! (Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo Revival (GBA))

Member Name: martial_loh

Product:	Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo Revival (GBA)
Date:	23/12/01 (260 review reads)
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Advantages: Its a very good fighting game, challenging

Disadvantages: maybe a tad hard for beginners

I have been playing fighting games for a very long time - from the first Street Fighter - to Tekken 4......boy....I do believe I must have played each and every great fighting game!!
Now Street Fighter 2 was a special game. It was like the first home arcade experience - released ages ago on the SNES!! It was quickly followed by the likes of Mortal Kombat and many other clones, but none managed to match its gameplay style or lastabilty (except for SNK's King of Fighters series!!).
Anyway, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival on the GBA is a very nice piece of nostalgia. It's basically a re release of the 'super' edition of Street Fighter 2.. it allows you to play as the 4 bosses, as well as the 4 newcomer characters (Cammy, Deejay, Fei Long and T Hawk).
All the old favourites - Ryu, Ken, Chun Li etc are still available and look better than before with the nw revamped character portraits...trust me they do look nice and crisp! If you've ever played the GBC version of street fighter alpha, you'll know how bad that game looked.....thank god for the GBA's great graphical capabilities!!!
Akuma/Gouki whatever you call him is available as a kickass secret character..although you do have to win the game a few times before you can unlock him! There are several modes of play including Survival,Practice,Arcade and Versus. Each mode is fairly similar, but then you'd expect that wouldn't you!
The music and sound effects are very good - especially when listened to on stereo headphones..its just sheer genius as to how Capcom have squashed such good audio and visual data onto that ickle cartridge!!
The controls are responsive, although there are only 4 buttons. You do eventually get use to the new configuration though.
Erm...The game offers a lot of challenge - it is suitably hard - in my opinion, this title (on any format) has always been the hardest Street Fighter title.... the alpha/zero series was waaay too easy!!

So, get this game if you like Street Fighter, or are looking for a change from the usual cutesy puzzle game that you've grown accustommed to seeing on handhelds.
One thing I would say is that if you haven't bought this game yet, I might wait for a few months for Street Fighter Alpha 3 and THe King of Fighters to come out... Both games look a lot better than this title - although you cant always trust the hype...!

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