I have been a very big of street fighter games since street fighter 2. But honestly, its gets kinda boring fast. I wanna start off by talking about the graphics of the game. I must admit, the effects and animations was great, but as for the character models, I would prefer a more anime style look but they are alright. The voices of the characters was good. One of my most biggest problems about the game was the Ultra Combos. They wasnt creative enough to enjoy watching. for example Ryu's Messatsu Hadouken looked almost exactly like his Shinku Hadouken, Akuma's Ultra Combo had only a minor difference then his Shungokusatsu. It just felf rushed to me. The Music of the Stages was pretty good, My favorite track was on the Drive-in at Night Stage. Now For the Fighting Sytem, I have to say was the biggest disappointment for me because before I bought this game I figured since it was a new street fighter game and we havent had a new street fighter game in so long, this would be one of the best ones with an updated fighting system. That new Focus Attack felt very similiar to the Guard Break in Street Fighter EX 3, Their wasnt any type of super cancels or special moves cancels and even no Air Guard, come on now. It felt too much like Street Fighter 2, Plain. Im done with playing games like that ( like SNK games). They say they made the fighting system like that so newcomers could play it but I really didnt think that was fair to us advanced players. They could atleast did to this game what they did to Street fighter 3 Third Strike and Capcom vs. SNK 2 by putting an Extra Option on the game to turn on or turn off the system tweaks of the game. As for the Characters, I did love that their was a big roster of characters, A lot of favorites too. The Online mode wasnt that good, there wasnt really a lot of different online modes to play just basically the 1 on 1 versus mode. When playing the Arcade mode I noticed they had this Rival type thing that happens when certain characters meet, it was pretty neat but wasnt dramatic enough. The Boss Seth was pretty hard to beat even on Easy which was kinda crazy cause it felt like changing the difficulty didnt matter when fighting him. Overall the game was a big disappointment to me cause the gameplay felt too old school but it would be good to newcomers of Street Fighter.
