Street Fighter IV

The video game Street Fighter IV is a book published in 2008 beat ' em up game manufacturer of Capcom. Street Fighter IV is the first implementation of the Street Fighter series for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game appeared more for Windows PCs, mobile phones and the Nintendo 3DS handheld. The game has sold over 4 million times.

Publication

The first official announcement of the title was part of the video game Mass Gamer's Day in London on 17 October 2007. On 18 July 2008, the game appeared then as an arcade version in Japan. In February 2009, the home console versions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Europe followed was also a collector's edition launched in addition to the simple version of the game, in addition to the game disc two figures of Ryu and Crimson Viper, an art book and a DVD official with the Anime Street Fighter IV, the ties that bind (Eng. "gang that bind "; jap Street Figher IV - Arata naru Kizuna (ストリート ファイターIV ~新た なる 絆~ ), dt " Street Figher IV - new band / Shackles ") character.

The Windows version of the game was released in July 2009.

Back story

As in the previous games is the core of backstory a tournament where the best fighters in the world compete against each other. Prior to this tournament disappear numerous martial artist and the sponsor of the tournament, the company SIN, is with Shadaloo, the criminal organization from the previous games, communicate.

The background story is shown in The ties that bind from the perspective of the characters Ryu, Ken and Sakura, and Cammy, Chun- Li, Guile and Crimson Viper in a parallel storyline. The two storylines merge towards the end and the characters fight against the main opponent Seth, the head of SIN and as it turns out also employees of Shadaloo.

In the game background story serves as a common thread for Arcade Mode: The player denies the tournament from the perspective of the respective characters. In cutscenes at the beginning and at the end of the arcade mode, the role of the characters in the story and their motivations are illuminated for the tournament.

Game concepts

Like the other parts of the series is also Street Fighter IV a classic duel beat ' em up. The player can choose between three game modes: In addition to the already angesprochenden arcade mode, where you have to defeat multiple enemies in the course of the background history of the selected character, there is a versus mode where players play against a human or computer opponents, and a challenge Mode, where the player must deal with tasks such as performing certain punch combinations or defeating as many opponents within a time limit. Furthermore, there is a training mode.

For the first time in the Street Fighter series also includes an online mode is available in which you can play over the Internet against human opponents. First, this was only possible in individual duels; the so-called championship mode was filed by a patch in April 2009, which now enables online tournaments.

Technology

Contrary to the trend towards photo-realistic 3D graphics is Street Fighter IV the line of the series and offers a true comic-like graphic style, due to its still seem the characters look like sprites. In addition, refer to the graphic style approaches of cel-shading. The game is still programmed in 3D, which is reflected in the background graphics and the animations of certain special attacks, in which changing camera angles are used, shows.

Characters

The arcade version of the game features 17 playable characters. Among them are the "classic" eight characters and four bosses that appeared in Street Fighter II in 1991:

• Blanka
• Chun Li
• Dhalsim
• E. Honda

• Guile
• Ken
• Ryu
• Zangief

• Balrog
• M.Bison
• Sagat
• Vega

As in its predecessors, the names of the "classical" are changed bosses compared to the japanese version in Street Fighter IV: Balrog is called in Japan M.Bison, Vega and M.Bison Vega named Balrog.

Four characters have made ​​their debut in the Street Fighter series:

• Abel
• Crimson Viper
• El Fuerte
• Rufus

With Akuma exists a hidden playable character, which is already known from previous Street Fighter games in the arcade version. The regular final boss Seth - another debutant - and the hidden bosses Gouken - also known from previous games - are not playable in the arcade version. In the console version, all three can be unlocked as playable characters; Gouken is here in the Street Fighter series for the first time even playable. In addition, six other well-known characters from previous games have been integrated in the console version, but also need to be enabled through in-game achievements:

• Cammy
• Dan
• Fei Long
• Gene
• Rose
• Sakura

Through the five new characters to the total number of characters increased in Street Fighter universe to 62

Reception

Street Fighter IV has been taken up by the trade press unanimously well: the Japanese video game magazine Famitsu reviewed the game with 34 of 40 points, the U.S. portal IGN 9.3 out of 10 and the German magazine M! Games with 92% ( PS3) or 91% (Xbox 360). The website metacritic.com calculated an international rating average of 94%. The PC version of Street Fighter IV PC Games tested with 92% and Gamestar with 90%. 4players treated all three versions and gave inter alia, the PC version is also 90%. In the magazine Computer Bild Street Fighter IV with a grade of 1.49 was evaluated (PC, XBox 360, PS3)

In the first two weeks of sales close to one million units of the home console versions were sold worldwide. In Japan, the game was sold out shortly after publication. As of April 2011, the Street Fighter 4 games had sold more than 4 million times.

Super Street Fighter IV

On 27 April 2010 appeared in North America, a variant with the addition of super. The changes consist mainly of new game modes, including an online team battle with up to eight players. In addition, have been integrated with T. Hawk, Dee Jay, Adon, Guy, Cody, Ibuki, Makoto and Dudley eight other characters from previous games, and introduced two new characters: Juri and Hakan. The release in Japan on 28 April in Europe two days later. The title was sold from the start at a price below the standard for new video games.

3DS version

A provided with the additional 3D Edition variant appeared in 2011 for Nintendo 3DS, one of the first games for the console. According to publishers it is the first 3DS game that was more than a million times delivered to the trade.

Arcade Edition

Another reiteration of the game under the name Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition was released in the summer of 2011, for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. This adds to the character set added another four figures, so that the total number to 39.

Mobile versions

In March 2010, a version of Street Fighter IV was released for iPhone. A year later appeared under the name Street Fighter IV: Volt a version with online multiplayer option.