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Written by Dave   
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Editor's rating
4.4
out of 5
 
   
Published By: Capcom
Players: 1-2
Genre: Fighting
Wii Points: 800
Street Fighter II defined gaming in the 1990s by revolutionizing the fighting-game genre. Regarded as one of the greatest games of all time, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior was the first release of the original Street Fighter II series. This game features the original eight world warriors, including Ryu, Chun-Li and Guile. Each character has his or her own fighting skills, speed, special moves and unique ending to make for a truly unique fighting-game experience. Choose your character and become a hero in the Street Fighter universe.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Overall rating (weighted)
4.4
Presentation
4.0
Graphics
4.0
Sound
4.0
Gameplay
5.0
Emulation
5.0
I've been an avid fan of video arcades my entire life. I've played a lot of arcade games over the years, but none have had such a profound impact on me like Street Fighter II: The World Warrior has. Street Fighter II was a massive hit in the arcades, and it was only a matter of time that it would be released on the Super Nintendo...but the question was...would the home port be as good as the arcade original?

Luckily, that answer was yes. With the exception of a few problems, the Super Nintendo port of Street Fighter II was virtually perfect. The graphics and animation was as close to the arcade version as the SNES would allow, the music was wonderful, and the controls and game play were perfect.

The graphics are close to perfect. The biggest issue the SNES had was that it couldn't handle the extremely large character sprites found in the arcade version and still have a playable frame-rate. Thus, Capcom was forced to use smaller sprites, and made the game "letterbox" -- black borders on the top and bottom of the screen. Some of the animation was also sacrificed. Any hardcore Street Fighter II fan could easily notice that Ken, Ryu, and Guile lacked many of their animations. The stage backgrounds were faithfully reproduced on the SNES, only missing some small environmental elements.

The sound was top-notch. The music and sound effects, although sounding different (due to the different synthesizers found in the arcade and the SNES), was faithful to the arcade. Only a few sound effects were noticeably missing, such as the elephant's shrieks in Dhalsim's stage.

The game play in this version of Street Fighter II was perfect. Every move and control combination was spot-on. The rudimentary combos that were performed in the arcade version could be easily repeated at home.

Street Fighter II was a revolutionary game that jump-started the fighting game craze which is still evident today. The SNES version is an accurate reproduction despite a few problems, and deserves to be in your Virtual Console collection.
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Last updated: Thursday, 22 March 2007


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