Street Fighter 6 rights the wrongs of its predecessor while dragging the famous fighting game franchise kicking and screaming into the modern era. Our review:
From the main menu three pillars present themselves: World Tour, Battle Hub and Fighting Ground. World Tour is a 25-hour ish single-player campaign in which you create an avatar and embark upon an adventure to find out the true meaning of strength. This plays out as a third-person, Yakuza-lite experience, which is something I never thought I'd say about a Street Fighter game. Metro City from Final Fight is the initial explorable area.
The thing to say about World Tour is that while I don't think fighting game combo fiends need or necessarily want a near 30-hour Street Fighter campaign, I am delighted it exists. It's janky , the story is nonsense and the fighting itself gets boring after a while. But it's overwhelmingly endearing. My enduring memory of World Tour is the time I got a text message from Ryu.
The game displays which control scheme is being used by which player at the top of the screen, and it does not segregate between modern and classic when it comes to matchmaking. Some purists will look down their noses at modern control players, but this is the right decision from Capcom. Street Fighter 6 is a game for everyone and splitting the player base down the middle would do more harm than good.
The new Drive Gauge is central to Street Fighter 6's fresh style. This resource governs a number of powerful abilities, including the Drive Impact. Oh boy has Drive Impact caused a kerfuffle among Street Fighter fans! This is a move that can only evoke one of two emotions: delight or despair. Anticipate an attack from your opponent, chuck out a Drive Impact and you'll absorb the attack before smacking them in the face, leaving your helpless victim open to a follow-up.
Most of the returning characters look and feel as you'd expect. Ryu has a few new tricks but he's essentially the same all-rounder with the added benefit of being in a game that likes zoning. I picked up and played my main man Guile without dropping a beat. Zangief still struggles to get in for a Spinning Piledriver. I'm glad E. Honda is back but he feels pretty useless. He's got a great vibe though!Vibrant, inventive design and superb animation course through all.
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