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If you've ever played this game, I thought you might get a kick out of this. I wrote it in my Journal for my Composition class. Lol
The other day I waltzed into a little place in Livonia called Moe’s Arcade. It was a small arcade assumedly owned by a guy named Moe. Browsing through their massive fifteen game lot, I was in search of some decent Street Fighter (my favorite series of video games, and the main reason I visit local arcades). Since the nearest arcade with some good Street Fighter competition is all the way out in Warren (I live in Novi) I thought I would wander into Moe’s and see what they had. They did have one Street Fighter game, Street Fighter: The Movie.
You see, Street Fighter: The Movie (from here on SF: TM) isn’t a Street Fighter game; it’s more like Capcom’s red headed stepchild. (Capcom is the developer of the Street Fighter series.) Way back in 1995, a movie came out based on the smash hit video game of 1991, Street Fighter 2. Street Fighter 2 is easily the most influential fighting game ever to be released in video gaming history. A true classic, spawning millions of rip-offs, some successful, some not. Anyway you slice it; Street Fighter 2 will be part of the gaming hall of fame. To be short and simple: movies based on video games suck. Video games based on movies suck. So what about video games based on movies that suck? I think you can figure it out. SF: TM is a video game based on a terrible movie. What does that mean? A terrible game.
SF: TM is far different from anything in the series. Each Street Fighter game was crafted with beautiful cartoon animation, fluid controls, and the best fighting engine ever conceived. SF: TM is different though. Instead of hand drawn two-dimensional sprites, we have poorly digitized graphics of the actual stars of the movie. (In lamens terms, the scanned images of the actors and attempted to animate them.) As badass as Jean Claude Van Damme can be, playing him as a digitized version of Guile is not exactly enjoyable. Mortal Kombat was one of the first games to ever use digitized graphics, but the graphics in SF: TM are not even as good as MK, which was released in 1992. The animation is so poor and missing so many frames, it’s eye piercing. The game play is totally imbalanced now. Street Fighter 2 Turbo was perhaps the best-balanced fighting game ever, but SF: TM is a complete step in the wrong direction. The difficulty has gone from challenging to flat out cheap. Even Street Fighter veterans will find themselves dying in their first match. It’s abysmal. Street Fighter games had always had decent sound, but SF: TM, being the rule breaker it is, once again changes all that. The voice-overs are flat out terrible. There is this stupid announcer in between fights that even pronounces the main character’s name wrong! The character’s name is Ryu, pronounced Ree-Yu, but the game pronounces in the stupid American way, Rye-Yu. Ouch.
I could go on for hours about how bad this game is and how far you should stay away from it, but I’ll spare you. In fact you probably already think I’m a dork for even writing something like this, but be forewarned, this game eats.
The other day I waltzed into a little place in Livonia called Moe’s Arcade. It was a small arcade assumedly owned by a guy named Moe. Browsing through their massive fifteen game lot, I was in search of some decent Street Fighter (my favorite series of video games, and the main reason I visit local arcades). Since the nearest arcade with some good Street Fighter competition is all the way out in Warren (I live in Novi) I thought I would wander into Moe’s and see what they had. They did have one Street Fighter game, Street Fighter: The Movie.
You see, Street Fighter: The Movie (from here on SF: TM) isn’t a Street Fighter game; it’s more like Capcom’s red headed stepchild. (Capcom is the developer of the Street Fighter series.) Way back in 1995, a movie came out based on the smash hit video game of 1991, Street Fighter 2. Street Fighter 2 is easily the most influential fighting game ever to be released in video gaming history. A true classic, spawning millions of rip-offs, some successful, some not. Anyway you slice it; Street Fighter 2 will be part of the gaming hall of fame. To be short and simple: movies based on video games suck. Video games based on movies suck. So what about video games based on movies that suck? I think you can figure it out. SF: TM is a video game based on a terrible movie. What does that mean? A terrible game.
SF: TM is far different from anything in the series. Each Street Fighter game was crafted with beautiful cartoon animation, fluid controls, and the best fighting engine ever conceived. SF: TM is different though. Instead of hand drawn two-dimensional sprites, we have poorly digitized graphics of the actual stars of the movie. (In lamens terms, the scanned images of the actors and attempted to animate them.) As badass as Jean Claude Van Damme can be, playing him as a digitized version of Guile is not exactly enjoyable. Mortal Kombat was one of the first games to ever use digitized graphics, but the graphics in SF: TM are not even as good as MK, which was released in 1992. The animation is so poor and missing so many frames, it’s eye piercing. The game play is totally imbalanced now. Street Fighter 2 Turbo was perhaps the best-balanced fighting game ever, but SF: TM is a complete step in the wrong direction. The difficulty has gone from challenging to flat out cheap. Even Street Fighter veterans will find themselves dying in their first match. It’s abysmal. Street Fighter games had always had decent sound, but SF: TM, being the rule breaker it is, once again changes all that. The voice-overs are flat out terrible. There is this stupid announcer in between fights that even pronounces the main character’s name wrong! The character’s name is Ryu, pronounced Ree-Yu, but the game pronounces in the stupid American way, Rye-Yu. Ouch.
I could go on for hours about how bad this game is and how far you should stay away from it, but I’ll spare you. In fact you probably already think I’m a dork for even writing something like this, but be forewarned, this game eats.
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