![]() ![]() 44 characters is a lot of grasp on your first venture into this combo-heavy fighting game. Then you open up the character select screen and you’re petrified. These are staples in the fighting game genre. The first time you load up the menu, it doesn’t seem that daunting you’ll be presented with Arcade, Online, and Practice modes. But unlike, say, Dead or Alive 5, it hasn’t been updated much, and is a fairly straightforward port. Considering that most players who have stuck with Street Fighter IV since 2009, I’m guessing that Capcom have directed this version at people who either haven’t played the game at all, or badly want to have it on their shiny new PlayStation 4s. That all being said, I do get the impression that Capcom has released Ultra Street Fighter IV on the PS4 solely for the fact that its numeric sequel, Street Fighter V, isn’t coming out until next year. Additionally, each of the 44 characters playable have their own special moves, known as Ultra moves, which can be activated after they have sustained significant damage from the opposing player, and these can flip the momentum of the battle in a heartbeat. Each character has a light, medium and heavy variation of a punch and kick, with numerous combos coming from a mix of control stick movements and button combinations. For anyone who hasn’t played a game of Street Fighter before, two players battle it out on a 2D plane, trying to better the opponents health down to zero. Street Fighter has been a mainstay in the arcade fighting genre, and now that it is over 25 years old, the series has found its feet and isn’t going to change significantly from past iterations. Sure, these updates could be free, but I don’t disagree with adding a price tag considering that people do actually work to make those additions happen. ![]() The Capcom Pro Tour has a total prize pool of $500,000, so having a game that is constantly updated to fixed balancing issues is required to keep it competitive enough for professionals. But Street Fighter is more than a causal game. A few new characters, one to two stages (which lets be honest, you’re not playing Street Fighter for stages), and then some balancing doesn’t sound like much. For casual players, it might seem like a cash grab. I’ve never been against the multiple releases of Street Fighter IV. And people complain about Dead or Alive’s 5 regular re-releases… Six years later, Capcom is still releasing new editions of it, this time bringing Ultra Street Fighter IV to the PS4. It was all the way back in 2009 when the first iteration of Street Fighter IV was released. ![]()
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