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Most portable fighters nowadays are either riddled with IAP, or horrible gameplay. This is a great port of an amazing game. Though the characters are a bit lacking in the 3D edition, the ease of gameplay more than makes up for it. Being able to create moves with and without using the touch screen is great, allows for customization, and the game has many more modes if one is bored. The multiplayer is fun, still active to this day, but because the game allows auto-block and certain options, many players take that to their advantage to instantly demolish other players not using auto-block. For the price here, you’ll definitely spend hours on each character, figuring out movement, counters to characters and super moves.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Launch titles for new consoles generally possess an air of the over-familiar – the rush to get them ready for the first day in the shops habitually involves using assets from a version made for an older console. But Super Street Fighter IV feels commendably fresh on the 3DS. Street Fighter games almost by definition recycle their predecessors, with their cast of familiar characters, and never have any form of plot to worry about. Capcom has therefore been able to concentrate on what the 3DS can bring to the party. And Nintendo's 3D marvel turns out to be very well suited to beat-em-ups. The key reason for that is its graphics chip, immensely more powerful than those of previous Nintendo handhelds, which brings visuals akin to non-portable consoles, rather than forcing developers to make 2D graphics appear three-dimensional. To show off the stereoscopic 3D, Capcom has come up with an over-the-shoulder view which can be toggled on or off, that works beautifully, although arch-traditionalists (who are rife among the ranks of beat-em-up aficionados) may still opt for the original side-on view, which is turned on by default. The touchscreen also plays a part – again, one which might upset the hardcore following, but which will delight those whose fingers aren't stroboscopically rapid. During bouts, the touchscreen is split into four, each denoting a special move, which you can launch with the touch of a thumb, as long as your Super Combo and Revenge gauges are suitably charged (the latter, which lets you launch Ultra Combos, is only filled when you've taken a lot of punishment). They take a while to recharge, and you can select two of your favourite special moves, but hardcore Street Fighter-heads would view them as a travesty. You can turn them off for head-to-head play, or set them to ape the function of the ordinary buttons. And, of course, you can perform special moves in the conventional manner, with various arcane button combinations plus gestural movements of the analogue circle pad, which provides the control system with the silkiness it has previously lacked on Nintendo handhelds. All the familiar Street Fighter characters – 31, to be precise – are present and correct, while the classic Arcade mode is augmented by various ways of playing human opponents: locally, via the Internet or via Download Play, which lets two people take each other on if they only have one copy of the game between them. A bewilderingly customisable Training mode lets you hone your skills, and Challenge mode measures your ability to produce specified combos at will, and includes two mini-games involving punching barrels and a car. Super Street Fighter IV 3D, despite being a beat-em-up, is one of the most grown-up-feeling games we have ever encountered on a handheld console. It is commendably lacking in compromise and makes good use of the 3DS's unique abilities. Even those hardcore fans who worry it has been dumbed down will find out that, in practice, it hasn't. Impressive stuff for a launch title.Read full review
I've bought it because i'm a fan of Street Fighter series since 1989, and it went within my expectations. The graphics are amazing, and you hardly find flaws when compared to the console version, except for the scenario that doesn't move as do the console's. It has a solid online mode, and good players playing it. You'll find high level players there, unleashing devastating combos on you. A negative thing is the "Lite" controls. I hated to play against a player using Guile on "Lite" control mode. It's just not fun at all. A positive thing is the option to change into the "Pro" control mode and choose to fight only people with the same control mode as you, which filters the baddies, and elevate the level of the match. The 3D effect here is kinda annoying, as you move your hands to perform your moves, the 3D effect blurs, and you can't see well. But it's pretty to turn it on when you hit or get hit by an Ultra Combo. The effects are just amazing.Read full review
Surprised at how good it translated to handheld. controls worked well.. however game feels better on 2DS rather than 3DS due to location of analog joystick.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Great Street Fighter port of the arcade game, awesome 3d graphics, all characters and arenas, highly recommend for existing and new fans of this fighting series!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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