Right off the bat, this isn't an open world effort that's going to be giving the likes of The Witcher or Yakuza any sleepless nights, it’s thoroughly old-fashioned, fairly basic, segmented into small areas and properly clunky in many ways. Here you get to build a fighter in the game’s impressively flexible character creation suite, give them a suitably silly name and then take to the streets of a wonderfully madcap Metro City to rise up the rankings, whilst also getting to the bottom of a very cheesy mystery involving the Mad Gear Gang and some other shadowy bad guys that we won't mention here. Let’s kick off with the game's World Tour Mode, a single player offering that turns Street Fighter into a ridiculous Yakuza-styled RPG. As long-term fans of this series, fans who’ve played every entry since the first launched way back in the late 80s, this latest effort feels like a huge treat and a definitive return to happier times in almost every way. This is a big and brash new entry that loudly responds to complaints over a lack of content, launching with three meaty modes for players of all ability levels to get blasted into and enjoy. For us folk who just wanted a flashy new Street Fighter experience to dig into, it left us wondering what this most storied of franchises was going to do in order to course correct.īooting up Street Fighter 6, it’s immediately clear that Capcom has been more than aware of the disquiet and has made meaningful moves to address it. Whilst it was still a top-notch effort when it came to actual fisticuffs, it launched in a pretty sorry state overall, with barely anything in the way of single player diversions, a roughshod multiplayer experience and a roster of pugilists that has taken far too long to grow into what it’s since become.įor all the improvements that V made with regards to the series' core combat - and we actually reckon it's a better fighter mechanically than IV - it’s a game that, in the long run, left a bit of a bad taste in the mouth, and one that's had the series sat in a bit of a strange funk ever since. Have a quick browse through a few online rankings of the best Street Fighter games and you’ll find that Street Fighter V - yep, the one that never made it to Xbox consoles - usually lingers somewhere behind Street Fighter IV in the minds of many a fan of the franchise. Subscribe to Pure Xbox on YouTube Watch on YouTube
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