Advantages: Plenty Of Brutal Action, Good Photography and Great Music
Disadvantages: Cut Version Has Nonsensical Plot & Is Too Short!

...'Return Of The Street Fighter' - Japan- 1974 Fun sequel to Sonny Chiba's groundbreaking 'Streetfighter' film. Takuma Tsurgi returns (as you would expect) to punch kick and stamp his way through his enemies in this 70s brutalist karate film. Chiba for the uninitiated was an Olympic standard karate master who starred in loads of films in Japan over the seventies and eighties. Chiba is awesome as usual, in the 'Streetfighter' films he plays Takuma Tsurgi a mean merciless assassin who is out for himself and fights dirty when he can. Although not a patch on the original, it's full on and gory (although toned down slightly from the first film), it features tonnes of action, funky music, stylish cinematography and some great 70s kitsch. It has a lighter tone than the original with a plot about the mafia blackmailing karate... Read review

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Advantages: Graphics, amazing moves, endings
Disadvantages: Limited digital audio and slowups on PSX

...and it was received for the same praise. The Premise A Streetfighter clone with the exception that we have again characters from the Marvel Universe fighting against characters with the Street Fighter era and for the first time both sides can team up to fight one another. The Characters. A dazzling list of characters to choose the list by no means includes every character from Marvel or Street Fighter, Capcom played it slow in this one and included a short but favorite list of characters: On the Streetfighter side you have: Ken Masters, Ryu. Charlie, Chun-Li , Dhalsim Asuma, Cammie and Zangief 0n the X-Men side you get : Juggernaut , Storm Wolverine, Gambit , Rogue, Cyclops, Sabretooth and Magneto. You also got several hidden characters including the Hulk , Shadow and an Alpha Chun-Li. Graphics *** (Good) The graphics were... Read review

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Advantages: Graphics are imroved, playable, 4 Player Tag
Disadvantages: Sound, Graphics still aren't great, not Streetfighter

...The Streetfighter EX series has always taken on a sort of ugly-step-child role when it comes to Capcom's most famous fighting game series and it's many spin-offs. For those of you who've never seen or played one of the games, they take Capcom's famous Streetfighter characters like Ryu, Ken and Chun Li, and makes 3D models of them, but still plays them in a 2D fighter. The first two games were released in arcades, as well as recieving ports to Sony's all conquering PlayStation console, but recieved a lukewarm reception, not only from series fans, but gamers in general. Most casual fight fans had moved on to Namco's Tekken and it's sequels, and series fans were insensed at what had been done to their favourite series. You see, while the EX games used Streetfighter characters, had the same QCF and Charge methods of performing... Read review

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Advantages: Animation,fights,fun
Disadvantages: Story

...Plot Details: This opinion reveals major details about the movie's plot. Released roughly around the same time, in the UK anyway, to the video market that Jean Claude Van Damme's career-killing live action movie was released, Streetfighter 2:The Animated Movie was met with a reception far warmer than it's live action counterpart, and is regarded by many in a very positive light. I personally first saw the movie a few times upon release, before buying it on VHS just before the big DVD boom, and about 2 years ago or so I recieved the R2 DVD of it as a Christmas present. I had only ever read good press concerning it, so always assumed that it was as good as I remembered it seeming in my youth. However, in my recent little slew of Streetfighter reviews, I decided I should look at the animated movie, and this latest viewing would... Read review

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Advantages: Its Streetfigter 2.In its most complete form on the Snes.
Disadvantages: The Snes controller, a bit slow

...With Streetfighter 2, Capcom created one of the greatest games ever. With Streetfighter 2: Turbo it somehow found a way to make it better, could they actually do the unthinkable with Super Streetfighter 2 and make the game even better? The thing that was to be the main attraction to this title over the previous versions was that there were now 4 totally new fighters added to the roster, taking it up to 16 playable fighters. The new additions are Fei Long, a Hong Kong action star hailed as the new Bruce Lee. Cammy White, an amnesiac member of military unit Delta Red out to track down M.Bison and discover what he knows about her past, Thunder Hawk, a Native American forced to move to Mexico when Bison's Shadowlaw took over his tribe's land and Dee Jay, a Jamaican kickboxer who seems to really only be there for a laugh. The game... Read review

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Advantages: Closure for ardent Capcom and SNK fans.
Disadvantages: Rushed production.

...Capcom have finally delivered what the fans have been dreaming about for years. However, is capcom vs SNK what the fans asked for? I'll start with the good: In essence the game should be called StreetFighter vs. King of Fighters because what we have here is a game with only one character outside the periphery of the two. This is a good thing, for it immediately negates super jumps, chaining, larger than life specials and even larger super specials. Air blocks which previously left characters like Guile and Charlie useless, have also been removed; thus what we are left with is a relatively old school technical fighter. We find that everyone's favorite capcom characters have made a few advancements to bring them up to par with the King of fighters' characters. Its now possible to do ground rolls, different jump lengths and dashes... Read review

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Advantages: Kylie Minogue, fun, action packed, fast
Disadvantages: Dated now, Jean-Claude Van Damme's acting ability

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Advantages: Gameplay has depth, rock-solid structure, two decent franchises, easier super-specials
Disadvantages: General lack of content, few original ideas, mediocre graphics

...The numerous reworkings of Streetfighter II in the early nineties proved merely a taster for the veritable onslaught of Capcom beat ‘em ups that would follow in the PlayStation era. The barrage included the series three ‘Alpha’ titles; a couple of 3D ventures; two retro collections and countless other spin-offs that included Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Pocket Fighter. As if all this wasn’t enough, Capcom complicated matters further with its cross-franchise ‘Vs’ games and a new, dumbed-down fighting system. So where does X-Men Vs. Street Fighter fit into the lengthy legacy, and more importantly, does it offer anything that the others don’t? Released in 1998, XMvsSF’s appearance on the PSOne was almost entirely ignored by public and press as it arrived under the all-encompassing shadow cast by Namco’s 3D behemoth Tekken 3... Read review

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Advantages: Graphics, Choice of characters - there's so many
Disadvantages: not that I can think of

...This is a timeless fighting classic that has provoked a million clones. You don't have to go far in the gaming world to find Streetfighter games, it's reached cult status - at least three new Streetfighter titles are released each year but all of them do not have the originality and authenticity as this. This is the game where it all began - revolutionary graphics, stunning gameplay, more characters than you can shake a stick at and brilliant spacial moves. Everything is here! Plus some cheats that aren't available on the console versions. It's a great, fast paced game that will keep you hooked for ages - I bought it a year ago and I'm still loving it! Those of you who have more recent Streetfighter games will want to go back to your roots, so to say, and this is the way to do it. I recommend this to every gamer in the country!... Read review

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Advantages: decent 3D fighter
Disadvantages: not very good characters, too easy

...After the many tiring and samey updates of their streetfighter series of games, capcom have at last made a 3D fighter which is enjoyable to play and nice on the eye too. However risking their precious streetfighter characters in a possible flop was never going to happen, so capcom devised the story of power stone. A truly fun game to play, many overlooked power stone on it's launch just because it wasn't streetfighter. I was one too. However after seeing and experiencing it for just £15 i am hooked on this gem. Buy it at all costs now!... Read review

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