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Exclusive First Street Fighter IV Review

The Official Xbox Magazine scored the exclusive first review rights for Street Fighter IV. What's the verdict? Check out what OXM had to say about the newest installment in the king of fighting games.

Milk is for Babies5620d ago

It's about time we get some more good fighting games.

Twizlex5620d ago

Yeah, I'm not a huge fighting game fan, but I agree that there really aren't enough of them.

chaosatom5619d ago

is it in feb or march or later on?

Bnet3435619d ago

Ahhh ... SSF2THDR was just to fill the void. Street Fighter IV, that's where it's at. Yup, can't wait for this mofo.

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Itrguy0015619d ago

SF4 is supposed to come out next month on Feb.16 or something like that

gaffyh5619d ago (Edited 5619d ago )

SF4 will be better on PS3 just because of the controller, graphically I dunno, but the controller matters too much in fighting games and the 360 D-Pad sucks (I know they've got a specific new controller with a slightly better d-pad in Sick green, but I'm not going to buy another controller for my 360, especially not one in that disgusting colour).

EDIT - Sorry if that sounds like I'm trying to start a flame war, I'm not. :(

barom5619d ago

There are tons of great fighting games. Just need to open your eyes a little bit. All of the below games has reviewed pretty well, somewhere between good to great.

Soul Calibur IV
Virtua Fighter 5
Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection
Street Fighter 2 HD Remix
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
Capcom vs Tatsunoko (Japan only, but importable)

Also King Of Fighters 12 (think it was 12) and Tekken 6 is coming out.

samura5619d ago

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe?

Sorry, I don't think so.

Marquis_de_Sade5619d ago

Anyone who takes fighting games seriously gets an arcade stick.

TheExecutive5618d ago (Edited 5618d ago )

Exclusive reviews are very very suspect. Doesnt anyone else wonder why they are always so high?

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Parapraxis5620d ago

I'm starting to feel the need to get this game.

Cookigaki5619d ago

Cookigaki does not really feel the need to get this game, but Cookigaki still wants to play it out of curiosity.

Milk is for Babies5619d ago

I'm gonna play it one way or another.

Cookigaki5620d ago

Cookigaki is confused. SFIV is not a 360 exclusive, so why is the first review a 360 exclusive? Why wouldn't IGN or Game Informer get the first review instead of an Xbox magazine?

Twizlex5620d ago

Because they want to sell more magazines. I'm just wondering if they had to pay to get the first review dibs.

Milk is for Babies5619d ago

Maybe they just asked if they could and didn't expect them to publish it so soon. It IS the February issue, but it's barely January now.

jmiscavish5619d ago

Magazines always come out a month early. The Feb. Playboy is already at my house...

San anto5619d ago

its not an exclusive first...OPM has already reviewed it as well.

Bnet3435619d ago

Maybe it's the first review of the Xbox 360 version.

Twizlex5619d ago

Both magazines are owned by the same company, so it's platform-exclusive reviews to each magazine.

rob60215619d ago

I think they knew xbox reviewers would give it a better review to lessen the impact of Killzone2 on their console, since they come out around the same time. You see KZ2s nothing special if streetfighter got the same score.

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The 7 Best Street Fighter Games: Exploring the Franchise

The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?

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How Street Fighter IV Saved 2D Fighting Games (Ft. Maximilian Dood)

After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.

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Snookies12340d ago

I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.

DarXyde339d ago

BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.

Great fighting game.

Snookies12339d ago

Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.

DarXyde339d ago

I really like Makoto, Valkenhayne, and Hazama. Super fun characters

Terry_B339d ago

Valkenhayn ..just sayin'

Terry_B340d ago

BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.

Ryuha1234h339d ago

You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.

Redgrave339d ago

>calls someone dumb
>does it by saying "you're sound dumb"

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Terry_B339d ago

A SF Hater eh? Fight me in SF 2,3 4 or 5 and you will regret that stupid comment ;)

gold_drake339d ago (Edited 339d ago )

eyyy max xD

one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.

GhostScholar339d ago

The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.

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Street Fighter Producer Says Fans Need To "Convince" Nintendo, If They Want More Entries On Switch

In the same interview at EGX 2019 recently, Capcom and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono responded to a fan question asking if there were any plans to bring the fourth or fifth entries in the series to the Nintendo Switch.

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gamer78041671d ago

they botched SFV so bad, just start over, make a new version with proper single player mode and fully fleshed out with support for all of the consoles this time.

King91671d ago (Edited 1671d ago )

Gamer7804@ they already did kinda it call sf5ae it help sf5 sell like another 2 million copies.

Teflon021671d ago

SFV is actually great now. Bunch of modes, bunch of characters, alot of stages, not sure what else there is to even complain about. Costume MTX? Not a issue imo, I don't get what I don't want anyways

gamer78041670d ago

botched launch, and they launched only on one console and currently after a long time still on one console.

Enigma_20991671d ago

Did you see how Ultra and the Collection sold? We don't need to convince Nintendo of anything. Just put it on the console.PHYSICALLY.

King91671d ago

Enigma_2099@ they probably have to make a new sf game just for the switch they probably will need Nintendo to help fund it just like sony help fund sf5.

PhoenixUp1671d ago

You’re not seeing Street Fighter V come to other platforms besides PC because Sony helped co-fund the game so it’s staying only on PS4 & PC

NapalmSanctuary1670d ago (Edited 1670d ago )

Don't know why anybody would want SF5 on Switch. Especially if they owned a Switch.

rainslacker1671d ago

That doesn't makes sense. Is Nintendo saying that Capcom can't publish the game on the system because it's users don't want the game? if so, that's really stupid of them, because why should they care?

Nintendo isn't saying such things of course.

Capcom shouldn't pass the buck. If they don't want to make more SF games on the Switch, then just say so, and say why.

If they want Nintendo to fund the project, then they are the ones that need to convince Nintendo to give them money.

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