Tada! Hail fanboys to the very first gameplay footage of Street Fighter IV in all its Street Fighter glory. It's ready for your viewing.
1UP got the exclusive scoop in a 20 minute video interview with SFIV's developers where they learn, laugh and play everything SFIV. Oh, and did we mention the video above is the first footage of the game? Well, it is and we're not sure if we enjoy the overly animated faces or the new art look, but one thing we're sure of is is that it'll be a change on the traditional SFIV formula. Watch the gameplay footage (and the video interview if you have time) then tell us what your SFIV impressions are. Ryu-kick!
Reader Comments (34)
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 2:05PM Clash Gordon said
Pretty damn sweet looking but those added graphic overlays during fighting might get annoying.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 2:25PM (Unverified) said
Can't decide if this looks awesome or shitty. Kinda like the animations, but the FX were annoying just after 10 secs. But as staying truthful to the old games it really looks like an greatly updated SF.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 10:51PM Anticrawl said
And I can't decide if I should thank X3F for keeping us updated or grab my torch and pitch fork to rally a mob for hunting down X3F because of the shitty gamevideos.com embeded video.
I'll stick to the later for now, but I'm watching you X3F *shakes pitchfork angrily* I'm watching you....
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I'll stick to the later for now, but I'm watching you X3F *shakes pitchfork angrily* I'm watching you....
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 2:26PM (Unverified) said
i can hear the purists gathering to rip it apart because of the new look but i personally think it's awesome. things have to evolve.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 2:33PM (Unverified) said
Those screen overlays aren't apart of the real fighting.
Nooooooobs.
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Nooooooobs.
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 11:26PM (Unverified) said
Neither is shooting fireballs out of your hands, or flying upside down spinning....
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 2:37PM Ranus Studios said
Doesn't look bad. Except for the faces; they got mighty silly looking. But then, I've never been much for Street Fighter.
Those big black overlays were transitions between footage, by the way. The only place you'll really see them is menus and the like.
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Those big black overlays were transitions between footage, by the way. The only place you'll really see them is menus and the like.
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 4:27PM (Unverified) said
I agree with you. Their faces look strange, I'm not digging it. The new style looks great!
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 3:25PM (Unverified) said
I'm definitely a Street Fighter purist. I definitely love the game already. You guys should "get" the interview that the producer had with EGM. He's all about the old-school Street Fighter experience and he and his team seem to be going to great lengths to keep the classic framework intact. I don't mind the graphical overlay or the new style... I'm just oh so glad that they kept the gameplay 2D, but then again they could make the game cel-shaded in black and white with chibi heads and I'd probably still love it.... Okay maybe not but still haha
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 3:34PM (Unverified) said
The characters look shit! They are totally wrong! Whoever has done the character design hasn't done a faithful job at all. Won't be touching this game unless they redesign the characters PROPERLY !!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 4:42PM (Unverified) said
RIP Street Fighter. We had a good ride, old friend.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 5:22PM (Unverified) said
Awww that looks sweet as!
Don't know what everyone is worrying about.
Those transitions are definitely not part of the game, you can easily tell.
Can't wait!
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Don't know what everyone is worrying about.
Those transitions are definitely not part of the game, you can easily tell.
Can't wait!
Posted: Dec 30th 2007 5:46PM (Unverified) said
It looks awesome. Looks just like the fight scenes from the Street Fighter animated movie - and those were awesome too.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 6:13PM (Unverified) said
Another one bites the dust. Street Fighter was like the final holdout from the Polygon Invaders. I think they shoulda stayed true to their roots. Someone's gotta stick-up for 2-D.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 7:49PM (Unverified) said
This game looks terrible. Is it coming out for XBLA? If not, I doubt I would ever play it at all.
I am not one much for living in the past though.
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I am not one much for living in the past though.
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 8:11PM usualyksint said
looks pretty awesone except mabye the faces. And there's that street fighter turbo HD remix thing for the 2D lovers anyway.
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Posted: Dec 29th 2007 9:11PM andsoitgoes said
HOLY CRAP.
I just watched it for the heck, because I didn't really care.
But zOMG. That looks amazing. Not a sight-unseen buy, but I'm darn sure ready to try that demo out.
I need new pants now!
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I just watched it for the heck, because I didn't really care.
But zOMG. That looks amazing. Not a sight-unseen buy, but I'm darn sure ready to try that demo out.
I need new pants now!
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 9:58PM ZeroCorpse said
Street SHOOTER.
Looks good, but it was clearly going the way of the last few Capcom games in that it's focusing on the super powers and shooting attacks and not the punching/kicking/ducking/jumping that made SFII worth playing.
This was mostly fireballs and dragon punches. Bleh.
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Looks good, but it was clearly going the way of the last few Capcom games in that it's focusing on the super powers and shooting attacks and not the punching/kicking/ducking/jumping that made SFII worth playing.
This was mostly fireballs and dragon punches. Bleh.
Posted: Dec 30th 2007 1:34AM (Unverified) said
In other Street Fighter news, I totally just rocked a Chun-Li on my Etch-a-sketch:
http://etchasketchist.blogspot.com/2007/12/chun-li.html
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http://etchasketchist.blogspot.com/2007/12/chun-li.html
Posted: Dec 30th 2007 8:43AM (Unverified) said
This might actually be the game to get me interested in SF :P (Cue screaming hordes of classic SF fans).
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Posted: Dec 30th 2007 4:14PM Eriq said
The game looks bad ass except for the faces & facial expressions--Ryu for example looks too American and silly looking. Like a horrible version of American Anime.
And the "black-out explosions" are clearly NOT a part of the game. They're just transition effects added by the person who put the video together.
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And the "black-out explosions" are clearly NOT a part of the game. They're just transition effects added by the person who put the video together.
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