July 18th, 2008

Street Fighter IV News

If you are old enough, I am sure you remember those glorious arcade times - Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man...but that was happening almost 30 years ago! If we step one decade closer, we'll find the single and two-player fighting games that changed history, including Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The last Street Fighter game, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future, was released back in 1999, but now we just heard some exciting news - Street Fighter IV is already here!

Unfortunately, it seems Street Fighter IV won't drop in our living rooms too soon, but it has already become available for those into coin-operated arcade games...so if you have enough room (and money) to get one of those big machines inside your house, you can enjoy this game way ahead the rest of us, because PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC users will have to wait, probably until the end of the year.

Leaving the "coin-dependent" version of the game aside, it seems there's a lot left for the PC, PlayStation and Xbox gamers too, since Capcom has in mind a lot of goodies for them. Want to know more about it? Well, at least that, because other details, like pricing or system requirements, are still rather sketchy.

Here's what I know I would like - a deluxe package including a high-end joystick so I won't break my keyboard in two days, some bonus characters to enjoy, and let's not forget that we're in the 21st century, so having some nice cinematics for the end scenes, instead of the static images on arcades should also make sense. Other than that, I think we should keep our fingers crossed so the arrival of Street Fighter IV on computers and game consoles is not going to suffer any delays!