Street Fighter is back.

The mother of all fighting games is next year in the third dimension. There is a preliminary but now a high-resolution 2-D version for the Xbox 360 and PS3. That the classic "Street Fighter" was dead but never show fan ambitious projects on the Internet.
  The original from 1987 knows a little. The fight game "Street Fighter" was only the second part in the annals of videogame history. Game developer Capcom defined with the game a whole new genre: "Beat em up" games. Here, two fighters against each other and beharken itself until the energy bar a player up. The beat-em-up was actually pioneered by Konami "Ýîé Ar Kung-Fu" from 1985, the same year was also "Way of the Exploding Fist" which so many from the C64 days should know. Successful but was "Street Fighter II", mainly because of the balanced game balance and control of the catchy, which later was often copied. About combinations such as below, right, blow dissolve special attacks like the "Hadouken fire ball" from.
Photo: CapcomVideo: rhoDas game, there are dozens of variations. At the speed screw has been turned, new fighters were introduced. Even sequels, in which approximately one against Marvel heroes can muster, belong to the portfolio.
The latest version is called "Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix" and is available as download version for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are available. During gameplay mechanics and remains - thankfully - (almost) everything the old, and the fighters still move in only two dimensions.
The press loves the game. In the rankings of the best games on the U.S. Aggregatorseite "Metacritic.com" is the Playstation-3-version in the Top Ten.
Beautifully and not just for joypad-acrobats
As the name suggests additional HD, finds the whole thing now with a resolution up to 1920x1080 pixels in 16:9 instead. That was all the character models and backgrounds of the "Street Fighter" comic-signatories "Udon Entertainment" redesigned. That looks pretty, even if the angular aesthetics of the predecessor something lost. Who on "Old School", can in the Options menu, the traditional 2D sprites, and play in the 4:3 format.
Even the soundtrack has been restored. Now you can call it even for free and legally download.
The control is less prone to error, so that some special moves easier to do - what delight beginners, old veterans, but is expected to rile. Just as the changing control of the Special Moves of the character Fei Long. The control of the other characters remains the same, on the balance of fights (s) but was strongly gefeilt.
Against the rest of the world
For fans but not the polished look in the foreground, but the online mode. For the first time can be a "Street Fighter" game online against the whole world. And it works properly.
That is not obvious, because in a beat em up on it at a fraction of a second. To latencies while playing to avoid continued Capcom specialists, a special networking technology in the game fittings.
Street Fighter universe
Classics such as "Street Fighter" does not come without Merchandizing - and ideally, bring a lively show fan culture. There are, besides action figures also excursions into the puzzle genre (Super Puzzle Fighter), manga, comics and also a movie called "Street Fighter? The decisive battle" with Jean-Claude Van Damme, but not because you must have seen . Beginning 2009, in North America, the second film "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" in the cinemas come.
ON-LINE TO blogs photo line: Street Fighter HDEuropastart shines in the Playstation 3: The clown prince is flat (18.01.2007) mandatory for all fans: The English Project "Street Fighter: The Later Years", produced by the US-fun - Platform college humor. The U.S.-series format Asked consequences show how the once glorious fighters in real life come to the edge - namely, none. They talk with casual jobs on water and sink into self-doubt. Sun sells the Army veteran hot dogs Guile, M. Bison boss sits in a wheelchair and the blonde Schönling Ken is working with Great Wall of hair and red headscarf during the game developer Capcom.
Street Fighter are real but not for normal life, they want to fight - always. To do the former counterparty back together in order to organize a tournament and their determination to be fair.
But not only moving to give the fans big trouble, even in the paintings are true works of art and hobby Schneider to run at peak performance. The costumes are then called Cosplay on video games or comic fairs to show.
Soon in 2.5 D
The current "Street Fighter" for download is actually just a foretaste of the official continuation of "Street Fighter IV", which is already in Japan since July 2008 in the Gambling can play. An implementation for Xbox 360 and PS3 will follow in February 2009, the PC version a month later. These are the characters and fighting arenas in 3D modeling. So that the aesthetics of 2D predecessor is not entirely lost, the characters in cel-shading style that looks like a comic-drawing seems. The expectation is high, first preview versions of the trade but positively.
The game mechanics remain the 2-D faithful to the original. Even in the latest "Street Fighter" There are only two directions: left and right.