Street Fighter IV (PS3)

The characters move smoother than your average anime and every facial expression is captured perfectly. Everything just moves fluid and looks natural. From the beginning intro, to the character select screen, everything in this new version of SF is polished to a fine shine. From Ryu's breath-taking Ultra Combo, to Ken's Shoryuken, Capcom has made entirely sure that nothing went without the utmost attention to detail in this game. All of your fears of the game not making a good transition to 3d, or losing that hand-drawn flair should definitely be put to rest after you fight your first round on arcade mode. Do I still miss the SFA3 look, where everything was ...  Read the complete review

I picked up the Street Fighter IV Collector's Edition and was somewhat disappointed with the contents. The 2 figures were nice, but the additional Blu-Ray came in a slipcase, and the 'strategy guide' was in reality little more than a leaflet detailing 3 or 4 moves for the new characters. So unless you really, really want the figures, you may be best off sticking with just the game. Anyway, onto the most important part - the game. How is it? Well, it's hard. Really, really hard. You think you're good at Street Fighter? Well, you're not, and SFIV will remind you of that fact constantly. It will punish you. It will haunt your dreams. This game knows it's better ...  Read the complete review

Street Fighter 4 is the latest incarnation of a gaming series that made its debut in arcades way back in 1987 with 'Street Fighter' however the game really became a phenomenon in 1991 with 'Street Fighter 2' with the option to control 8 different characters each with their own individual and unique fighting moves and styles. Since then there have been countless updates and sequels of the 'Street Fighter' series some good some not so good. Also we have seen 'Street Fighters' crown held by many new beat em ups namely the 'Tekken' and 'Virtua Fighter' games which moved over to a 3D format rather than the 2D of 'Street Fighter' So with the last Street ...  Read the complete review

Street fighter IV, the legendary arcade game of yesteryear, returns in a bang up to date, full on HD masterpiece. All 16 of the original characters from SF2 are here. Ken, Ryu, Guile, Chun Li, Blanka etc and these are available to play from the beginning. There is a further 9 to unlock by completeing the game in arcade mode. These include Akuma, Fei Long, Cammy, Gouken and other characters through out the SF series bringing a total of 25 fighters. Thre are several different modes of play from survival, time attack and trial mode. The trial mode is particularly good as it teaches you combos for each character and you can massively improve your ...  Read the complete review

Street Fighter 4, here we have a fighting game that with intent to emulate the thrills, brawls and quality of the much popular Street Fighter 2 series, and man have Capcom pulled it off! It's like they have taken the original game, and made a better game in Street Fighter 4. All the classic characters are here: Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Dhalsim, Zangief, Blanka, Guile, E. Honda and the Super and Alpha series' characters, along with 4 brand new ones: El Fuerte, Crimson Viper, Abel, and Rufus. All the moves and looks of each of the classic characters have been created perfectly in the way that they should look and fight, and even the new-comers are ...  Read the complete review