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Story & Playability

The storyline of Street Fighter comes in three major story arcs with two sets of characters, the first story arc shaping from SF1 up to SF Alpha 3, the second story arc, a sort of continuation of the first, but with its own objective in mind, covered purely in SF2, and the most recent arc taking place in the SF3 games for Dreamcast. The first story arc took the most time and effort to create, and it shows. With its many intricate sub-plots, the first story arc is most certainly the best written, and boasts a storyline unheard of in fighting games. The second plot is a continuation of the first, a mini-plot, objective in its own way, yet adding a whole new chapter to the battle against Shadowloo. The third story arc, however, lacks the meat and potatoes of any real plot, let alone compare to the plot up to SF2. With a new cast of characters having histories practically unwritten and a general plot too fresh to tally yet seemingly pointless to improve by Capcom's point of view, Street Fighter has a strong start, but threatens to suffer a sudden and dire end.

Rating

8 (good)

Graphics

90% of the Street Fighter games still use 2D sprites for character design, which works both for and against the series. The EX games, released for PlayStation, boasted a completely 3D design, down to characters and backgrounds. Unfortunately, the backgrounds seemed bland, and the character models were a small boost from being too polygonal, and lacked graphical fluidity. What you saw was any other PS1 3D fighting game, with little more to its name. As for the 2D models, backgrounds were rendered well, but lacked variation as the games went on, and soon lacked detail. Perhaps SF Alpha 3, with Japanese streets filled with spectators and a Hong Kong seaport with people cheering on the match, were the best one could find in terms of background variation and detail, but little else. Character animation was choppy throughout, until the SF titles hit Dreamcast (and eventually PS2, in the case of the Anniversary Collection), and suffered greatly, because the PS1 was not designed to optimize 2D graphics. The only thing the graphics can boast were its projectiles and special moves, which were rendered very well in comparison to the otherwise common and bland art and models.

Rating

5 (moderate)

Sound

A stark difference from the art, Street Fighter boasted, for the most part, a catchy soundtrack with songs stuck in people's heads to this day. Audio was done well, with very clear voices and sound effects for its appropriate era. The only flaw would be that character voices and lines would be carried over from the first game they were featured (with the exception of the jump from NES - SNES - PS1), and many different sound effects were reused over and over, until the SF3 series hit, where new sound effects and attack calls were added to new attacks. Don't mute the speakers for this one.

Rating

9 (very good)

Fun

For those who enjoy old school fighting games, the Street Fighter collection not only wrote the book on old fighters, and continues by its creed. The storyline, when analyzed, presents a very intricate story filled with humor, action, determination, and many elements that make this story a keeper, but without being a Shakespeare novel, and people watching will enjoy just as much as people playing (remember the ridiculous lines at the arcade when Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was in its prime?). The series boasts two flaws, however. As with most other fighting games, is that it lacks replay value. With almost no unlockables (with the exception of the cross-over titles) and little to no variation in gameplay, Street Fighter is a series you pick up for a while and put down for even longer. Also, the characters, by and large, will be at opposite ends of effectiveness and strength. Most Street Fighter games have two or three godly characters, and the rest of the cast are punching bags, creating a very unbalanced game. All in all, however, people who have played the series will never put this one down, and continue to enjoy this classic to this very day.

Rating

8 (good)

Final Verdict

7.67 (good)

Reviewed by MightyLuBu, 3y 41wk ago