| Introduction:
The Tournament of Street Fighter has begun. Eight of the world's
greatest heroes have come to fight each other and four bosses, to
become the Champion Street Fighter. Street Fighter II is the game that
revitalized the Fighting genere. After Street Fighter 2 was released,
a slew of Fighting games followed. We can thank this game for all of
the exellent fighters out there today.
Graphics [7/10]:
The graphics in SF2 doesn't really have too much to offer. The
fighters are neat and have some amount of detail, and so do the
backrounds, and projectiles. But there is so much slow-down. I have
never gone round , let alone an entire fight, without very noticable
slowdown. The graphics aren't horrible, but they're not something to
write home about. ;)
Music and Sound [7/10]:
The music is bland, but original. ;) Each level has it's own music,
but sometimes the music is down right bitty, and choppy. The music
really adds nothing to the game, and you'll find yourself turning down
the volume and opting for your own music.
The sound FX are a little better. The punches and kicks sound
realistic. The characters even say stuff (in Japanesse) when they do a
certain move! The sound only has a couple flaws. For one thing, all
the different character's kicks and punches sound the same. And some
of the speech that is actually in English, is unreconizable.
Game Play [8/10]:
You can choose one of eight fighters to play as. Ryu, Ken, Chung Li,
E. Honda, Blanka, Guile, Zangief and Dhalsim. Each has his/her own
agenda to win the Street Fighter Tournament. In addition every
character has it's own special moves and abilities. Fire-balls,
Upper-cuts and more, are some of the moves you can use. The game is
either 1 or 2-player. In the two-player mode you and a friend duke it
out to see who the true Street Fighter is! Note:You cannot play as
the same character in two-player mode.
Challenge and Replay [8/10]:
No matter what difficulty you set the game to, you'll still find it to
be pretty tough. The computer has pretty good A.I.(Artificial
Inteligents) that counters your moves almost like a real person would.
A good replayable game, especially on 2-player mode. You can spend
hours trying to best your friend, and vice-versa.
Conclussion/Overall [7.5/10]:
A good fighting game, but it's also the first one of it's type. Since
this game was released three other Street Fighter 2s were introduced
to the SNES. You'de probably do better buying one of them, because
many flaws have been worked out, more characters have been added. And
the list goes on.
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