Guile got shafted in Street Fighter IV. Crap hair, crap wishy-washy colours, no 'go home and be a family man', and a crap Ultra with wrist-cranking execution which made it so much less-than-useful that it went around the horn and became useful again as a humiliating finish to one-sided fights. Super SFIV fixes none of these massively important faults but that doesn't matter because now Guile can fight with his shades on. Aw yeah.
Down + HP + HK is the trigger to whip those shades out and fight in style, and the same again will whip 'em off for less style. Its awesomeness is only trumped by his awesome new Flash Kicks which actually work as semi-decent air defence and his awesome new Ultra which fills half the screen with a gigantic whirling Sonic Boom for idiots to land on while you're
backing away. It even dishes out decent chip damage if you're shit and don't whack it on the end of a little combo. Thanks, Capcom!
PUNCH HOUR
It's still the same game of one-on-one, best-out-of-three, fist-on-face, boot-on-balls, ultra-competitive Street Fighting you'd remember from last year, and very much the same game you'd remember from 1991 if you weren't such a youthful young buck filled with vim and vigour and the bullets of a dozen Xbox 360 shooters.
Those were the glory days when every night was spent fighting elbow-to-elbow and every day was spent arguing about who was the best. There were other fighters - Mortal Kombat, Samurai Shodown - but it was the annual Street Fighter update which gave every school playground on Earth something new to argue about for the next twelve months. Super
Street Fighter IV is one of those updates for a generation which has porn on e-tap and doesn't care if you can see Chun Li's pants when you pause the game, and one that takes 'arcade perfect' for granted. Today's gamer cares about bigger things - can you play with groups of friends online? Can you save and share replays? Can you enter online tournaments? Can you fight in teams? Can you play winner-stays-on fights with seven other players like it's 1991 and you're smoking with the big kids in the arcade instead of it being 2010 with your wife telling you to lay the table?
Turn on the new Replay Channel and you can browse replays shared by your Friends List or by the best players in the world. You can browse by character and keyword and even put down your controller and leave the channel running while it selects fights for you to enjoy. SSFIV still does the traditional piss-poor job of explaining itself to new players endemic to all fighters, but in the replay channel you have the best tutorial imaginable. Pick your favourite characters and you'll see what they should look like when played by the world's best. You watch, you learn, you go online and batter your friends.
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Currychips on 27 Apr '10 said:
I think I'll add something that the reviewer hasn't touched upon: Awesome.
WHERESMYMONKEY on 27 Apr '10 said:
JUst incase anyone's interested they've got the madcatz pads for £15 over at hmv.com, just nabbed myself a zangeif one. Finally i'll be able to do spinning piledrivers again! yay!!!!!
Friday cannot come fast enough.
yerbluesjohn on 27 Apr '10 said:
I saw those too Wheresmymonkey, got one already but might get another!
Great review, thanks
Sinthetic on 27 Apr '10 said:
Would you say those fightpads help those who aren't fanatical about fighting games become better at the game?
merlip80 on 27 Apr '10 said:
haha l nabbed a Ken one the other week and just ordered a Cammy one,at £15 it's to good not to buy another.They only have Guile,Zangief,Cammy,M.Bison ones left now though so hurry and grab one now!
roll on friday or thursday however fast shopto.net decide to despatch SSF4
thelazyone on 27 Apr '10 said:
Can't F*CKING WAIT!!!
bring on friday!
Whose planning on buying this for xbox or ps3?
We should set up a cvg/streetfighter battles up, that would be too good!
p.s
AWESOME!!!!!
Taus on 27 Apr '10 said:
Love SFIV, must admit I'm utterly pants at it but cannot get enough of the game
Let's put a tournament together on-line
PSN ID: tauheed
WHERESMYMONKEY on 27 Apr '10 said:
Got it on preorder from the hut for the 360 mainly for the blanka t shirt.
A CVG Tournament's an AWESOME idea!!!
@ Sinthetic i'd say the pad has the potential to make you a better fighter or if you remember playing 2d fighters on the likes of the saturn and megadrive reinvoke your inner fighting god.
Either way its better than a 360 pad. Although i did get quite good at using it in the end.
thelazyone on 29 Apr '10 said:
What there tshirts with the pro order? damn!! Going on the site rite now!
Im down for the Tournament!
My psn id : Goggie_1
My Xbox id: Hyper SnyperPOW
lets do this!
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ei8hty5ive on 30 Apr '10 said:
I was a bit sceptical of Capcom making me 'rebuy' SF4 but I now realise it was justified! You've excelled yourselves! This game realy is SUPER!
ei8hty5ive on 30 Apr '10 said:
I was a bit sceptical of Capcom making me 'rebuy' SF4 but I now realise it was justified! You've excelled yourselves! This game realy is SUPER! It happens to be that if you have the original SF4 game, you get a couple of additional costumes...Pah!