However, the first impression is the most important and Street Fighter 6 nails it.Īs the first Street Fighter game on RE Engine, Street Fighter 6 has an incredible aesthetic. You can never truly judge the life of a fighting game based on day one since it’s an ongoing journey of balance changes, optimization and new features. Street Fighter 6 is that new beginning, returning to its roots of fighting on the streets. "As the first Street Fighter game on RE Engine, Street Fighter 6 has an incredible aesthetic." But what this series needed was a new game. Yes, subsequent updates improved it – the Champion Edition did a lot of good in that regard. The molehill became a mountain, and suddenly, Street Fighter went from Capcom’s flagship, one of the franchises that put it on the map, to this pariah. Even if you could forgive all that, Street Fighter 5 didn’t have a compelling enough fighting system to stand out amidst its contemporaries. Network issues, no Arcade Mode, no Story Mode, network issues – it was one black mark after another. Street Fighter 5 was released and should have been the start of a new era of fighting games for Capcom. While that spark grew into a flame as more competitors, like Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Killer Instinct, Guilty Gear, and Super Smash Bros entered the fray, Street Fighter was always there, reinventing itself in new ways and across multiple re-releases. Two players, eight characters, first to two round wins – it sparked the fighting game genre as we know it. This little-known fighter, however, was absolutely spell-binding. What happened to Street Fighter 1? No one talks about Street Fighter 1. In 1991, Capcom released a little-known fighting game called Street Fighter 2.
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