Street Fighter 6 is a fighting game published and developed by Capcom for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, PC and Arcade and is the seventh mainline installment in the franchise.
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Why It Rocks
- Unlike the previous installment which was rushed, this game returns to the franchise's roots as it's more jam-packed with single-player content than ever before, and that includes World Tour, a single-player mode where the player gets to create an avatar and travel across Metro City and get into street fights.
- The Arcade Mode comes with the game at launch, and it brings back the format of giving each character an intro and outro in their paths and even final bosses in the style of "rival" battles, similar to Street Fighter IV.
- Not only do veteran characters such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-li, etc. return, but this game also introduces newcomers such as Luke (despite being the final DLC character of V), Jamie, Kimberly, JP, and as well as more new characters yet to come as DLC.
- Additionally, this is the first Street Fighter game (excluding Street Fighter X Tekken) to feature guest characters and will feature Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui from SNK's Fatal Fury and King Of Fighters franchises.
- Like most of the previous entries, the gameplay is as addicting as ever before and even features a new gimmick called the "Drive System".
- The graphics are as stunning as ever, combining the "cartoon-ish" art style the series has had since IV and a little bit of realism, thanks to the highly successful RE Engine.
- The soundtrack of this game is full of bangers such as Not On The Sidelines (the game's main theme), the character select screen, and even the map theme in World Tour.
- The walkout scenes after the character select screen is very mind-blowing to watch, and you even get to change their emotes afterwards before the fight, which is reminiscent to Soul Calibur II and III.
- There are tons of nostalgic throwbacks such as a few classic arcade games by Capcom like Final Fight, the Street Fighter franchise's first-ever jukebox, which is full of songs from older SF games, and even the classic costumes for the classic characters.
- The accessibility for those inexperienced at fighting games is mostly well-done and is completely optional as you have the option to turn off the auto-combos.
- This game also saved Capcom's fighting game division after 3 previous fighting games that commercially and critically flopped in a row.
Bad Qualities
- The game's monetization is rather predatory, because not only does it contain a battle pass despite being a premium game, but said pass included the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed costumes for the avatars, which are all $60 combined. Not to mention that all of the characters' third outfits cost around $80 in total.
- The "Modern" control system, which is where you get to use auto-combos, may turn off longtime fighting game fans, as you may not be able to access a character's full moveset thanks to this system.
- Despite the avatar creation being extremely robust, the customization of it is extremely limited in World Tour mode.
Reception
The game received positive reviews by critics and gamers and is considered to be one of the best modern fighting game, on Metacritic, the game had a score of 92/100 for both the PS5 and PC version and a score of 90/100 for the Xbox Series X/S.
Trivia
- In the game's February 21, 2022 teaser trailer, Ryu did not wear his kasaya (Buddhist robe) on his body. This was considered as a early design for him until his final design was finished. The same teaser trailer also appears in the Gallery as a bonus cut scene, but the game's finalized logo is used at the end instead of the early development logo.
- For some reason, E. Honda's English voice actor, John Snyder is now credited as Joe Dimucci.
- Like the Street Fighter III sub-series and Street Fighter Alpha 3, this is the third game to have official character battle themes. This is also the first game in the Street Fighter series to have the in-game UI show the title of a song before it disappears at the start of each match's first round if the stage's "Stage Battle" theme, the battle themes for Extreme Battle, or a character's theme song is used in a stage, similar to Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven series of rhythm games, in which the song title appears at the start of certain Rhythm Games and "Remixes" that use vocal theme songs in the series.
- As part of the May 22, 2024 Akuma update, Street Fighter 6 marked the first time where a selection of the BGM tracks and vocal songs from the 2013 smartphone rhythm RPG game Oto Ranger, and the 2012 Lost Planet spin-off E.X. Troopers can be listened to in-game, as the former game's online services ended on October 14, 2014, making it no longer playable, and both games weren't released outside Japan, which makes the music from these two games become heard outside the region for the first time.
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