Have you ever wondered what the bonus round from Street FIghter II where they smash the car might look like in real life? Well here is your answer, these guys went to town on this old beater and added the sounds from the game. My favorite part is the ‘Tiger’ to the window, I wonder if any of the neighbors called the cops on them?
I spent a good deal of time the past week with the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Beta. I’m not typing that again, so I’ll call it SSFIITHDR Beta from now on. That’s just as hard to type. We’ll figure something out.
If you’re in your late 20’s to early 30’s, you grew up with Street Fighter II (and it’s various iterations) in the arcades. I spent countless hours and thousands of quarters perfecting my fighting regimen. And trust me when I say I was damn good back then. When Street Fighter II was announced for the Xbox Live Arcade, I got all antsy in the pantsy. Sadly, the game didn’t turn out to be the faithful recreation we had all hoped, mainly because of the controls with the difficult Xbox 360 D-pad. I was a bit skeptical at first when I heard Capcom would be turning the game into an HD Remix, mainly because of said controls. After spending a week with the game, I’m happy to report they did it right. The controls feel very solid using the left analog stick. Takes you back to rocking the joystick on the arcade machines of days past. You can customize the button layout to your liking, which is a huge plus since we’re not working with 6 face buttons (I miss you, Sega Genesis 6-button controller).
The SSFIITHDR Beta launched today on the Xbox 360 and some people are pissed off. Buy some people, I mean pretty much everyone playing the game. The Beta is locking up hardcore to the point where you have to power down your 360. Yikes. Worst part? Capcom has no plans to fix it.
“We will not be patching the beta… resubmissions would cost a fortune and not go live for weeks even if we had (MS would have to reapprove every submission). This isn’t like the PC where a developer can make changes daily (for good or ill). All feedback and bugs will be factored into the final code.”
So if you bought Wolf of the Battlefield for no reason other than to get into the Street Fighter Beta, you got screwed. Hard. With no lube. I haven’t attempted the play the Beta yet, but I’m not expecting much given the major problems being reported.
Street Fighter gets a brand new boss, named Seth, who bears a striking resemblance to the Silver Surfer. Looks like he has dethroned M. Bison as the new final boss of this instant arcade classic. The talk around town is that Seth is super overpowered and a bit oversexed. Why is he not wearing pants? To me Seth does not really fit the flow of the other Street Fighter characters and looks more like a Marvel character instead of a Street Fighter.
That was a mouthful. That’s what she said.
Capcom posted a few pretty screens of Akuma from the upcoming Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. I’m very much looking forward to this title, so I hope it all gets buttoned up soon.
I had almost forgotten that the Street Fighter game had gotten official G.I. Joe toys, some with “real ninja moves”. They had even made vehicles that came with Championship edition characters with the different color variants from the game, which is really milking it. These were actual G.I. Joe figures too, I think I owned a few of them like Vega, E-Honda and Sagat. Take a trip down memory lane and bask in the glory of the sophisticated special effects in this commercial.
Want to see some new in-game footage of Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix? Wow, that’s a mouth full. That’s what she said.
It seems like the new Street Fighter movie might not be casting the worst actors on the planet this time around. The movie will focus on Chun Li, who will be the protagonist in the film and we will see her characters rise to, well, fame I guess. Her master, Gen, will be played by Robin Shou, the same actor who played Liu Kang in the MK movies as well as sidekick in Beverly Hills Ninja. Could this be a miserable movie? Maybe. If they keep using some decent cast, it might be worth watching. On cable.
The 90’s such a happy time, gaming was at an all time high, no online trash talking was around and gamers hadn’t gotten all serious about themselves just yet. Some may argue this was the golden age of gaming. This is a pretty good list of the top 10 games form the 90’s and just watching brings back a lot of memories. I like the inclusion of Starcraft, this was a monster PC title at the time, but I would argue for Street Fighter to take the top spot, just because I think more people played that game, but well done video all around.
As you know, we get press releases from developers all the time and its great because we know they are true. Sometimes, we wonder if they are putting peyote in the coffee.
There WILL be a new live action SF movie coming out in 2009. This is already in motion. In case you have not seen the 1991 debacle, click here. I wrote all about it. Just in case you think I am full of shit, hit the jump for the official press release. I wish I was kidding, I really do. Raul Julia is spinning is his grave right now. Maybe there will be some live action Hadoukens. A man can dream…
