For those that know me, I have been saying this over and over for the past 1 1/2 year that Capcom is doing extremely good business in the next-gen market. Releasing excellent sequels to their existing franchises, but also being just about the only developer out there that can take their decade old franchises, and completly restart them by bringing out a remake or shake a new megaman game out of their pockets. The latest offering from Capcom in their line of online distributed games is Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: HD Remix (SF2THD)
Regardless if your a hardocre gamer or not, you will have heard of Capcom`s Street Fighter series, being hailed as one of the best fighter series known to man where you would either spend a large amount of your allowance on the arcade cabinets or if you were rich and lucky enough, owned the cartridge on the Super Nintendo back in the day.With SF2THD, Capcom aims to bring back those old days. The game remains based on 2D sprites as the original, but now the sprites have beencompletly redrawn so they wont look bad on modern HDTV`s and let me tell you it looks absolutly beautiful.
I wont go into depth into the gameplay, as it`s Street Fighter come on what else do I need to tell you about the gameplay ? What I will tell you about tough, is just how great this game runs in multiplayer.Got a bunch of friends and you want to see who`s best ? Not a problem with the built in tournament mode! Players who wait for their match can talk amongst themselves and observe the match. What`s even more miraculous is that the online gameplay is completly lag-free! If your not up for a full-blown tourney, than that`s o.k since you can just play versus another friend, or if your not a social gamer with nobody in your friends list you can always just simply take the fight online against a random opponent trough matchmaking, ranked and un-ranked !
Should you feel particularly nostalgic, there is always the option to play the game using it`s original sprites and hitboxes. All in all, for fans of the series, or people that just love old-skool fighting games be sure to grab this for either Xbox 360 or Playstation 3, for sale on their respective networks for around 15$ or 1200 MS points which for a game this polished, is a complete steal.
If there is one thing I have to complain about, it`s got to be the Xbox 360 D-PAD or lack thereoff. Originally I was hellbent on getting this game on the Playstation 3 due to it`s superior D-PAD however the PS3 version hasn`t hit PSN in Europe yet due to some strange localisation process Sony is blaming it on. Due to peer pressure however, and realising that I had 10 times as many friends to play with on the X360 ver as compared to the PS3, I went with the Xbox 360 version. And there we go, I can barely pull off a dragonpunch when I want to on the 360`s pad. It`s realy horrible, as it`s not even an actual D-PAD, I mean look at it ! It`s a circle that serves as a pedestal for a D-PAD that looks "mashed in" It may be bearable for DOA since most the attack combinations just feature pressing either direction, but for something as precise as Street Fighter it just doesnt cut it.
Fortunatly, Hori makes some great affordable arcade sticks for the Xbox 360. Capcom will be releasing their own SF4 arcade perfect arcade sticks as soon as SF4 ships on the next-gen consoles and personally I am waiting for these SF4 sticks - having already had the privilage to play on an actual SF4 arcade cabinet in Japan They really do feel great and have a better action button layout compared to the HORI`s.
In closing, I personally wouldn`t care if all Capcom would do now is make game re-makes, or re-imaginations or hell even sequels of old games like Megaman cause they are just so damn good at doing it.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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