Product Description

Street Fighter IV brings the legendary fighting series back to its roots by taking the beloved fighting moves and techniques of the original Street Fighter II, and infusing them with Capcom's latest advancements in next generation technology to create a truly extraordinary experience that will re-introduce the world to the time-honoured art of virtual martial arts.

Everything that made the legendary Street Fighter II a hit in the arcades, living rooms and dormitories across the globe has been brought back in Street Fighter IV. Players will be able to play their favourite classic characters, such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile, along with new characters, including Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuerte, and Rufus. Characters and environments are rendered in stylised 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Six-button controls for the game return, with a host of new special moves and features integrated into the gameplay system. Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting game to fans the world over.

• Stylised 3D environments and characters
• Traditional "2D" Street Fighter six-button gameplay
• Classic Street Fighter characters re-imagined for a new generation of gamers, including the original cast of Street Fighter II
• New brawlers: female super-spy Crimson Viper, lucha libre wrestler El Fuerte, mixed martial artist Abel and more!
• New special moves that go beyond any Street Fighter fan's wildest imagination, including Focus Attacks, Super Combos, and the revenge-fuelled Ultra Combo system
• Amazing locations never seen before in a Street Fighter game
• New gameplay elements provide challenges for both newcomers as well as the most seasoned Street Fighter pro

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1761 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Capcom
• Released on: 2009-07-03
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .33 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Amazon.co.uk
Street Fighter IV brings the legendary fighting series back to its roots by taking the beloved fighting moves and techniques of the original Street Fighter II, and infusing them with Capcom's latest advances in next generation technology. The result is a truly extraordinary experience destined to reintroduce players, both familiar with the Street Fighter series and those coming to the game for the first time, to the time-honoured art of virtual martial arts.

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What Was Old is New Again
Knowing a good thing when they see it, Capcom has gone to great lengths to ensure that everything that made the legendary Street Fighter II a hit in the arcades, living rooms and dormitories across the globe all those years ago has been brought back in Street Fighter IV, and this naturally starts with the characters. Fans of the franchise, as well as the fighting genre in general, will be happy to know that whether you prefer to stick with the superior abilities of top tier characters or explore the ins and outs of mid to lower level combatants, when it comes time to pick your fighter there is a wide array of choices. Also, not only will players be able to play as and against their favourite classic characters, such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief, Blanka, Sagat, etc., they will also be able to take on new characters. Just a few of these include:

	Abel This young French amnesiac comes from a mixed martial arts and mercenary background and is dedicated to chasing down the remnants of Shadaloo.
	Crimson Viper This tough and beautiful agent assumes a businesslike demeanour, ignoring all emotion and obligation to her fellow man. She wears a high-tech suit filled with deadly gadgetry..
	El Fuertes This fighter divides his time between perfecting his Lucha Libre skills and his cooking abilities, yet surprisingly his indomitable spirit is a match for even the legendary Red Cyclone.
	Rufus This portly fighter has declared himself America's greatest fighter and uses his own brand of Kung Fu in his decidedly one-sided rivalry with Ken for top dog in the States.

In addition, characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Six-button controls for the game return, with a host of new special moves and features integrated into the gameplay system. Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting game to fans the world over.

Key Game Features:

• 3D environments and characters.
• Traditional "2D" Street Fighter six-button gameplay.
• Classic Street Fighter characters re-imagined for a new generation of gamers, including the original cast of Street Fighter II.
• New brawlers: female super-spy Crimson Viper, lucha libre wrestler El Fuertes, mixed martial artist Abel and more.
• New special moves that go beyond any Street Fighter fan's wildest imagination, including Focus Attacks, Super Combos, and the revenge-fuelled Ultra Combo system.
• Amazing locations never seen before in a Street Fighter game.
• New gameplay elements provide challenges for both newcomers as well as the most seasoned Street Fighter pro.

New Combat Features: Focus Attacks and Ultra Combos
Although Street Fighter IV is designed to draw heavily from past game features in its franchise history, it does offer some stunning new gameplay options. The first of these are Focus Attacks. These moves allow players to absorb the energy from an attack and quickly counter with their own. Used properly, Focus Attacks allow for tremendous flexibility during combat and are the end result of efforts by the game's development team to evolve combat away from the rigid memorization of set combination patterns, giving players the freedom to be creative against opponents. The other new combat feature are new powered up moves called Ultra Combos. Like standard combos their purpose is to unleash maximum damage on an opponent, but unlike the combos of old, when performed correctly these long strings of punches, kicks and moves result in changes to the in-game camera angle and quick cinematic which illustrate the strength of your skills like never before. Taken together, these two new features herald Street Fighter IV as the new king of the fighter genre and a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

Product Description
Everything that made the legendary Street Fighter a hit in the arcades, living rooms and dormitories across the globe has been brought back in Street Fighter IV. You will be able to play your favourite classic characters, such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile, along with new characters, including Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuertes, and Rufus. Characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes. Six-button controls for the game return, with a host of new special moves and features integrated into the gameplay system. Street Fighter IV brings a brand new fighting game to fans the world over. Amazing locations never seen before in a Street Fighter game New gameplay elements provide challenges for both newcomers as well as the most seasoned Street Fighter pro

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Customer Reviews

Street Fighter returns
This game seems almost to have come out of the blue to make a surprise appearance on the PC. It is the latest in the long-running series and was very well received in it's original console format.

The developers have done a good job of porting the title over to the PC, and it should perform smoothly on only a mid-level system or better. There are plenty of options to configure the setup to suit your hardware. However you cannot use your mouse to operate the menus, you have to instead configure your gamepad first to mimic the buttons of a 360 controller.

Once into the game you will find a highly polished title. The graphics are beautifully drawn in a stylised fashion and the backgrounds are full of life. It will look great if you run it on a big monitor.

There are several play modes available. Arcade mode sees you fighting through a series of opponents, Vs mode allows you to fight one-off matches against a friend or the CPU, and there are Training and Challenge modes to hone your skills with.

There are 25 characters in the game in total. Only 16 are available at the start, 12 of them classic:- Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Blanka, E.Honda, Guile, Zangief, Dhalsim, Balrog, Vega, Sagat and Bison, and 4 new ones:- Rufus, Crimson Viper, Abel and El Fuerte. You have to beat arcade mode with certain characters to unlock the remaining fighters. The extra characters are:-
Cammy - beat arcade with Crimson Viper
Fei Long - beat arcade with Abel
Gen - beat arcade with Chun Li
Rose - beat arcade with Bison
Sakura - beat arcade with Ryu
Dan - beat arcade with Sakura
Akuma - beat arcade with all the above and then once more
Gouken - beat arcade with all the above and then once more
Seth - beat arcade with all 24 of the other characters (!)

The gameplay will feel very familar to anyone who has ever played a Street Fighter game before, although the new characters add some extra variety. The game doesn't have the depth or realism of something like Virtua Fighter 5, but it offers frenetic, highly playable arcade action with plenty of over-the-top special moves.

Onto the negative:- The subject of the difficulty of the final boss in arcade mode has been much discussed elsewhere. This personage is nigh-on-impossible to beat in even the easiest difficulty mode. He has all the other characters' best moves plus many cheap super moves of his own. If it wasn't necessary to play Arcade mode to unlock all the characters then I wouldn't even bother playing this mode as this final character almost ruins it.

The game is probably at it's best anyway when played against a friend, or online.

In conclusion, if you are a fan of the series or of the fighting genre then this PC version will be very welcome, and it would be nice to see more fighting games released on the PC in future.

The ultimate fighting game..... on a PC?!
This is fantastic.

I've been playing this game for months on the PS3 and today I've been playing it all day on PC. My friend works at a video games shop and managed to get his copy of SF4 for the PC today. He has a powerful computer and he also has an Xbox360 controller which works with Windows.

If you have played the PS3 version, this version is like that, but better. It has improved graphics, but not only that, you can crank the settings even higher than you could on the PS3 so you can make the already improved graphics, even sharper and crisper and more colourful. It takes a good PC to do all that but on my friend's PC which is above average rather than top of the line, the game ran extremely quickly and smooth even with all the settings cranked (except anti aliasing which we didn't bother with seeing as it's only on a 20" monitor).

Overall the game just looks far prettier and there is far more detail. To be honest I'm not entirely sure how much of this is due to the graphical improvement capcom has done, or down to the PC being a more powerful machine, or if perhaps it's because my friend has a top of the line monitor. I think it's all of those things and the result is a really great looking game. It's strange too because although I have played this game for months of my big top of the line 40" Sony Bravia HDTV, it somehow feels far more 'alive' when I have it right in front of me on a computer screen. Not only does it look more vibrant but the characters seem to be so three dimensional and... well... alive. It's great to watch them jumping around on the screen, it's almost as if they could jump out of the screen.

Besides visuals, there are other improvements too. New locations to fight in and more customisation, for example you can move the health bars around and stuff. There are quite a lot of new features which are really nice but really, my friend and I just wanted to play the Streetfighter 4 that we love, and that's what we did all day and it was great.

With the Xbox360 Controller for windows (which we bought for just £17.99 including delivery....) it plays absolutely fantastically. (And that controller works great in other games too). He has two of those controllers so we could play like that, but just out of interest I wanted to play it with the keyboard. It took a few minutes until I was used to where the keys were, but I personally find it far easier to play on a keyboard than on either the PS3 or Xbox360 controllers. A dragon punch for example is just two keys pressed in sequence and then hit the punch key. It's extremely easy to do and after a bit of practice I was really fast with it.

I think I'm as good when using the keyboard as I am with either controller, although if I was going to play it for a long session, I would just plug in my own Xbox360 controller for windows so that I can sit back a bit.

I'm really glad that this game worked out so well on PC, and I'm really quite surprised how it all worked out. The PC has traditionally always been the geeky machine for flight sim fans, and more recently, RTS and FPS fans and so on. Very few fighting games make it to the PC. So it's funny that the fighting game that all my friends consider to be the best on the PS3 (even compared to other current fighting games), has now come to the PC and it's better on the PC than it is on either of the consoles.

So in a way, if you are looking for the the ultimate fighting game... then here it is, and it's on a PC!

FLAWLESS and FUN
well most of you say but the game is brilliant and good fun to play. got mine on full everything 16xAA and 16xfiltering res 1280*1024 and its locked on 60fps even online its fine. am running a 8800gts(g92) and Q6600 @3gig 4 gig ram and on vista.

the pad does seem really clumsy in this game so prob invest in arcade stick soon.

pleased to see the game come to the pc and it shows it can compete with the consoles if not better them.

thanks for the quick delivery amazon

overall very pleased so far.