Street Fighter IV test machines in Japan, features Sagat and Balrog

by Alexander Sliwinski { Feb 29th 2008 at 6:00PM }

Currently in the wilds of Japan there are Street Fighter IV arcade machines available for public consumption. The Capcom Blog posted video of the game's newest build featuring Sagat and Balrog as bosses, but neither shows up on the character select screen. There are also three new battle locations.

North America: Drive-In at Night

South Asia: Beautiful Bay

South America: Inland Jungle

Capcom emphasizes that even if you hop on a plane right now to hunt down one of these machines in Japan that these are not the final build of the game. They are merely another iteration of SFIV found at various conventions so far. But, if you happen to be over in Japan right now ... happy hunting!

Tags: sfiv, street-fighter-iv

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aBs @ Feb 29th 2008 6:05PM

If only people would GET OUT THE WAY TO SEE THE GOD DAMN VIDEO...

then I can say it looks AWESOME :)

Jansperus @ Feb 29th 2008 6:07PM

Street Fighter IV? And two of the same bosses from Street Fighter II?

DangerMouse @ Feb 29th 2008 7:47PM

Beats the freakshows that populated SFIII.

jorojoserojas @ Mar 1st 2008 6:00PM

As long as the controls are as perfect as is expected from a Street Fighter game, I don't care WHO I'm fighting.

dvheil @ Feb 29th 2008 9:37PM

That's Sagat and Zangief, not Balrog.

Jocaju @ Feb 29th 2008 6:11PM

I didn't see Balrog, was Sagat and Zangief

VoLiTioN @ Feb 29th 2008 6:25PM

You didn't read the article. It says Sagat and Balrog are unplayable boss characters. This video just shows someone playing as Zangief facing Sagat, controlled by the CPU.

l2read.

Psaakyrn @ Feb 29th 2008 6:12PM

The AI looks like it needs a LOT of help.

Also, Boo at the person who walked past during the first KO.

mike @ Feb 29th 2008 6:18PM

why would you say that? you have no idea what difficulty he is playing. This is probably on easy mode.

I for one am really excited for this game. Huge fan of street fighter 2 as a kid and hated all the extra crap added as the series progressed. Good to see it back to its roots. I hope the achievements are not online based. Playing vs other humans non locally in 1 on 1 fighting games bores the hell out of me. I just like trying to beat the games on the hardest mode and playing with friends in vs.

Psaakyrn @ Feb 29th 2008 6:28PM

What sort of arcade puts the difficulty on easy? :p

(remember, arcades are there to EAT your quarters... or dollars or whatever value they use now..)

upz @ Mar 1st 2008 6:55PM

Not test machines. Those are oftentimes free, like a public beta. Also, it's highly possible that he's playing another player, not the computer. Asian machines are laid out that each player gets his own cabinet, usually across from one another, so just because you see only one guy at a machine, doesn't necessarily mean he's playing by himself.

Vince @ Feb 29th 2008 6:25PM

US Balrog, or JP Balrog?

Norm @ Feb 29th 2008 7:20PM

Boxer, no mention of Claw just yet.

Batzarro @ Feb 29th 2008 6:34PM

I like em as much as the nest guy(well, a bit less) but AGAIN?

Kizzle @ Feb 29th 2008 6:37PM

Sagat should NEVER lose to Zangief. Shame on that player.

Kizzle @ Feb 29th 2008 6:39PM

Never mind, saw it was CPU-controlled.

...so I guess it's excusable.

THIS time.

Zamzoph @ Feb 29th 2008 6:40PM

So this game pretty much Street Fighter II.0, right?

DarkTetsuya @ Feb 29th 2008 7:52PM

Even if it is, what's wrong with that? It's supposed to be easy to get into for fans of the original SF2, but not going too far overboard with crazy combos like in MVC.

I can honestly say I'm stoked about this game unlike any other game in recent memory.

colin @ Feb 29th 2008 6:41PM

i hate sagat, his ai on the alpha games was pretty tough imo.

Wonderflex @ Feb 29th 2008 6:44PM

Oddly, the look of the game reminds me of Killer Instinct.

@Mike - I really hope this isn't like SSFII. I personally find SFIII:TS to have the best fight model. Although CvSNK:Millionaire Fighting 2001 was pretty good too.

Now where is my MVC3!

Wonderflex @ Feb 29th 2008 6:46PM

'na - I'm pretty sure I saw a roll and a parry.

Norm @ Feb 29th 2008 7:22PM

Roll and parry? this game does not feature parries, but zangief can eat certain attacks without stun. (noticed a glowing aura in a video, he still took damage but did a jab and cancelled into a super/ultra.

J @ Feb 29th 2008 7:23PM

The game still looks ugly. Bring on KOFXII PLEASE!

POOLSCLOSED @ Feb 29th 2008 9:38PM

I can't help thinking how much better SFIV could have looked if it had adopted a design similar to KOFXII.

bm @ Mar 1st 2008 5:43AM

@POOLSCLOSED: YES.

SFIV looks horrible. Just look at the video. The characters move like robots, with laggy, linear motions. And the figures, while being more detailed, look like a complete fucking mess of polygons and textures from a small distance. SFIII looks infinitely better, even though it only runs at 224x384.

I was very pissed at SF going 3D, but seeing what KOFXII is going to look like has lifted my spirits a bit. There's hope for great handdrawn animation yet!

deaftly @ Feb 29th 2008 7:27PM

This is the game that will bring me back to the arcade.

DarkTetsuya @ Feb 29th 2008 7:54PM

wasn't SF2 the game that revitalized arcades to begin with? How ironic would that be if SF4 did the same?

Just wishful thinking, I suppose.

DangerMouse @ Feb 29th 2008 11:51PM

First, I got to find an arcade stupid enough to buy one.

jorojoserojas @ Mar 1st 2008 6:04PM

Yes sir! I patiently await stopping by the arcade with a roll of quarters in my hand.

Rival Of The SilverFox @ Feb 29th 2008 8:22PM

Fireball Traps are back SON! The more I see, the more I hate this game(Gameplay, not visuals) Whatever, at least a few fans from back in the day are interested in this title. Besides, is a good year for fighting fans anyway.

Batzarro @ Feb 29th 2008 8:40PM

Por favor, Señor, Stop and Play de Plaza del Sol...

Benny @ Feb 29th 2008 9:18PM

Jeez people, don't you know it's downright RUDE to walk in front of a concealed video camera when it's secretly filming near-orgasmic fighter porn?

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Feb 29th 2008 9:25PM

Looks good so far. Cant wait to play this.

i_hate_mtv @ Feb 29th 2008 9:45PM

Balrog- YAY!

Sagat- Don't care either way.

Throw in Vega, Hugo, Rose, Necro, and Elena and I'm satisfied. But please leave Cammy and Akuma out of the game. I hated both of them, and could never understand why people like Cammy so much.

i_hate_mtv @ Feb 29th 2008 9:47PM

EDIT TO PREVIOUS COMMENT (hit enter a little too quickly)-

And Akuma just seems like a character that's tailor made to appeal to little kids who watch X-men. Not that I have anything against X-men, but little kids are annoying.

DangerMouse @ Feb 29th 2008 11:56PM

Akuma is overused so much. Just when SFIII couldn't use anymore Shotokan's, they throw him in the mix again, when they should've put Guile back in, since he'd been absent since SSF2T. Akuma was good when he was a complete, unstoppable badass, but now, he's just average.

And Cammy, i don't know, maybe animated thongs give players' boners. She's definitely one of the least interesting characters, imo.

i_hate_mtv @ Mar 2nd 2008 12:12AM

My real complaint about Akuma is that he has too many moves. He's too damn powerful, so much that it should be impossible for a character like that to lose. That's why I think he should be left out (or put in as a boss character, at least that way it would make more sense).

randomshagz @ Feb 29th 2008 11:10PM

Man... I kinda wish they would at least change clothes. The clothing is so... 1991.

spinnet @ Mar 1st 2008 5:24AM

Although I love SFII, it's really stupid to call this game SFIV... And it gets even more stupid when you consider that SFIIHD is coming this year as well...

What are they thinking?

jorojoserojas @ Mar 1st 2008 6:11PM

The whole "IV" thing kind of got to me too, just because it's non-sensical that this game is a prequel to Street Fighter III.

But then, I don't play Street Fighter for the story.

It's an evolution of the franchise, or a regression if you see it that way, but either way; I'm playing it.

Zoidberg @ Mar 1st 2008 11:51AM

I can't really say I'm overly excited or anticipating this game. It looks horrible, it seems to play horrible...what exactly is it that is drawing people in? Seems like they are trying to appeal to the Tekken/DoA/Soul Calibur crowd and moving away from their own fanbase.

Like Spinnet said, Street Fighter II HD is coming out soon. Pass on this.