Street Fighter X Tekken Review

Box art looks Badass

Street Fighter series. The good old days. Learning the combat move for each and everyone one of the character. Perfecting every combo moves. In the end of the day, getting a blister was worth it. Capcom had finally release Street Fighter x Tekken on the March 9th,2012. This game is available for the PS3,Xbox 360 and the PC. This game also feature characters from both the Street Fighter franchise and Namco's Tekken series ( kinda obvious judging by the title ). For those who don't know about this game, it has the same 2D fighting gameplay of Street Fighter except 3D graphics. Of course there are changes here and there and that is why we are here to talk about. Of course they are similarities for those who play their previous title which is Street Fighter IV and also Super Street Fighter IV. Let's get on to it!

Poison is...Woah

They are not much story to talk about over here. But I will talk about it anyway. Basically, a news reported that something crash landed to earth and well it has some mystical powers. Everyone wants it and each character you play will tell you the story in a different manner. Although the story might not interest some of the players, Street Fighter fans will still have many hours and hours of gameplay despite its story. As usual they have the same interface, as previous title. But we will come to that later. The fighting style has changed in Street Fighter x Tekken. Now instead of 1 VS 1 in battle, now players have to choose 2 character in order to play. Yes, they have changed into a tag team battle. Each player can switch whenever they want to. But this isn't the best part, players are now able to "juggle" enemies in the air like in Tekken or Mortal Kombat to perform even better combo. This is also the bad part of the game though. In my opinion its kinda imbalance such that if a person can juggle the other party endlessly performing a combo. The other party doesn't stand a chance to fight. It is not really a big issue, its fun to combo and the fighting feels even more satisfying than usual. There is also a new system call the "Gem System" some of you might heard. It allows you to boost certain attributes if one achieves certain goal. There is also a "last resort" call "Pandora". It is sorta like, when you are near death and you know that you're losing you will become super strong and you have to beat up your opponent within the time limit. Once the time limit stops, you die. This last resort thing doesn't really help much. Unless, one really timed it right. In terms of graphics, the graphic has a slight improvement and the game doesn't lag when I'm playing in the PS3. It does have many similar graphic as previous Street Fighter but its different. Unless there is something wrong with my eyes.

I have not go deep into the Multiplayer but I can tell you that. It's really hard to find a game especially in Asia ( I'm Asian ). I waited forever for a game and nothing. Even if I switch to any region. I have to wait more than 30 minutes probably an hour to finally to fight with an opponent. This is the saddest part, when fighting the opponent the game really lags due to internet connection. It's really hard to cope to fighting games especially online. I had to surrender because the lag was terrible. I also found a bug that sometime the sound were silenced. You can't hear the hit sounds only music. Hopefully Capcom fix that. Other than that, the Multiplayer has the same features as the previous Street Fighter titles such as watching replays. I love the new gameplay though. Where both of you and your friend against the world. Especially four of the player face off together. It is one hectic, fun and amazing fight.

Oh shii...

Overall, Capcom delivers the game tremendously. The new fighting system gives player more range and skill needed to perform better combo. Furthermore, the tag system is fun especially switching one another to perform crazy mega combo. To all fighting fans out there, get this game cause its one of the game that you must not miss.

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