these twelve newbies may not be as memorable as the original characters, but they're all nicely designed and feature their own stories. Sean, Yun, Yang, Alex, Ibuki, Elena, Dudley, Oro, Necro, Hugo, Urien and Gill. Perhaps this is why the game never took off except for amongst the hardcore, but other than Ryu, Ken and Akuma, everyone is new. With the game going back to its roots, it's surprising to see a whole new cast of characters this time around. And if you don't like it, in the immortal words of Seaman, "you suck." There is only one major thing from Alpha III that you'll find included here: a special move system with varying damage based on the number of button presses. No custom combos, no nothing - just pure, plain fighting. Referred to as Super Arts, each character has three such moves, and you can access one, and only one, when selecting your character. You'll also find a simpler special move system. Among the things you won't find is air blocking, which has been replaced with a parry system that, while difficult to master, can be worked on through an included bonus game involving a basketball. The game even lacks some of the features found in the wonderfully simple Alpha III - it's sorta like Alpha III in X-ism mode entirely, actually. Want super move after super move after super move non stop? Look elsewhere! And it feels like a fighting system that has been refined over years of tweaking - that's what it is, afterall. This is a game that gives you a few standard moves along with a super move or two and forces you to work with these elements to build your skill level. Forget about aerial raves, custom combos, and massive screen splitting effects.
#Street fighter iii double impact series#
Street Fighter III takes the series back to its original form, where skill ruled over flash. That's unfortunate, though, as Street Fighter III: Double Impact is one of the best fighters around, and a refreshing alternative to the sheer madness of Marvel vs Capcom 2. Sure, it's strange, as the mere mention of a third entry in the Street Fighter series would have caused an uproar in those simple times, but now the actual home release of a Street Fighter III is something less than an event. This game is not going to push a million Dreamcast systems on the public - not by a long shot. SF3's three separate arcade debuts (for its three different incarnations) were quiet at best, with more gamers (if that's what they are) preferring Namco's Tekken 3. But the Resident Evil of games? We'll leave that distinction to Resident Evil itself.
Don't get me wrong - it's a wonderful game. Street Fighter III doesn't have that same power. Such was the power of Street Fighter, and specifically Street Fighter II - this is a series which will be forever recorded into written history as "one of the greatest things ever." Here was a series that could give birth to thousands of clones, turn arcades into hangout stops for countless highschool punks, sell a million $200 consoles, and, when it wielded its great rage, push a company to the near brink of extinction. Back in the good ol' days of gaming (I'm referring to those glorious years involving Genesis in its prime and SNES in its infancy), Street Fighter was the Resident Evil of games.
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