Street Fighter IV Review

Xbox 360 is fixed and I've been playing Street Fighter IV. As promised I thought I'd have a little chat about the game and tell you what I think. First of all the game looks great and the characters are all fairly well balanced. No characters feel feel overpowered or anything so there's a real oportunity picking who suits you best. Despite the couple of complaints I'm about to make it is still an excellent fighting game.

My first complaint is a minor one, the dialogue. Street Fighter IV isn't going to win any awards for its brilliant story or anything like that but that doesn't mean the dialogue has to be this bad. The commentator actually says "the weak lose and the strong win" fairly regularly, which constantly reminds me of how bad the dialogue is. Voice acting isn't particularly strong either, Chun-Li sounds inappropriately like one of the kids from Rugrats, Zangeif has a rather patchy Russian accent and Ryu doesn't sound Japanese enough. Now onto a slightly bigger problem. Street Fighter IV is quite challenging, even on the easiest difficulty setting. This mostly comes down to the fact that the games final boss Seth is the cheapest motherfucker I can recall. He teleports behind you and grabs you before you can even turn around. He has stretchy punches that extend for the majority of the screen. He even has a move that sucks you helplessly towards him so that he can pick you up and grind you between the solid ground and his buttcheeks. Cunt. Seth. Is. A Cunt. I haven't been this frustrated by cheap enemies since Mario Kart Wii (fucking blue shells, fuck fuck fuck).

One other issue is that the Xbox 360 controller isn't ideal for fighting games. Luckily Madcatz have released some Fightpads and Arcade Sticks that are awesome for Street Fighter IV. Unfortunately they aren't out in Australia yet and they are sold out globally. Don't even think about looking on ebay unless you want to pay triple the RRP. Here's a picture of the standard edition fighting stick.

I am personally probably going to either get one of these or a fightpad. There is another better Fighstick called the Tounament Edition which uses all the Sanwa parts found in the arcade machines but they're a little pricey for me. I'm very much looking forward to getting one or two of these bad boys though.