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Street Fighter 4 Screenshots Bring Schoolgirl Sakura
by Blake Ellison, Oct 09, 2008 5:15pm PDTThe Tokyo Game Show has its fair share of costumed girls all over the Makuhari Messe convention hall outside Tokyo. Capcom, not to be left out, brought their own schoolgirl to the party, and she's Sakura, the brawler from Street Fighter Alpha 2.
Sakura won a poll among Japanese gamers asking what character they wanted to see in the fighting sequel. The guy with the white hair on the right? Sheng Long.
Street Fighter IV is currently sneaking into American arcades but will hit the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next year.
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This game is an enormous step backward in speed, mechanics, mind games, basically every measure of gameplay depth a fighter could possibly have, and it's graphically HORRIBLE to boot. I find those models painful to look at, Sakura's face almost looks like it's an edit of Ryu's. It just goes to show how braindead and tasteless the average gamer is, caring more about a game's title and "next-gen" post-processing effects slothered all over everything than actual content.
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I've watched dozens of match videos trying to give the thing an honest chance but honestly Street Fighter 2 looks more interesting to me, and I don't think that game has aged well at all. This game is a shallow test of sweeping and projectile throwing. No one in their right mind falls for those slow unblockables which is pretty much the extent of depth here.
It's a game for casual players who want to press buttons and have shiny things happen on a television. If that's what you enjoy it for, then fine, but don't pretend it's any more than fanservice + graphics.
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