Video released for "Street Fighter IV"
"Hadoken!"
After seeing this new gameplay video, I can't wait for Street Fighter IV to be released.
My first love is Street Fighter II, and I have yet to find a fighter game that I enjoyed as much. (Dead or Alive III came close, but still didn't top it for me.) And apparently the new installment is going back to some of what made Street Fighter II good. (I hope they don't change Ryu's "More mucus!" I know he doesn't actually say that, but that's always what it sounded like to me. And I'd hate to actually be able to understand it in this one!)
They're talking about using the cast of characters from Street Fighter II Turbo. The original cast is Ryu, Ken, Blanka, Zangief, Dhalsim, Guile, E. Honda and Chun-Li.We'll probably also get the Fei Long, T. Hawk, Cammy, and Dee Jay additions from the later versions of SF II. That means two chicks in the whole bunch, so I'm hoping some of the newer characters they are talking about will be female.
It also sounds like there are going to be some new moves, in addition to the old ones, so I'll have to work on adding to my Chun-Li repetoire ("Spinning Star Kick!" Or whatever it is that she really says.).
Is anyone else as excited about this as I am?
Also: I can't find anything else about the new Street Fighter movie I had heard rumors about last year. Supposedly, it was going to be based on Chun-Li, and I've even heard Jessica Alba's name thrown around, but I can't find anything new about it. Anyone know anything?
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With the number of video games that are now being turned into movies (Hitman, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Doom) it wouldn't surprise me if Street Fighter came back to the big screen.
But I still remember the first movie, with Jean Claude Van Damme and the late, great Raul Julia (and what a shame this was one of his last). It wasn't even so bad it was good -- it was just bad.
But wouldn't it be great if, like the Batman franchise, this one pulled itself from the ashes and really knocked peoples' blocks off?
But isn't it kinda hard to do that with a movie about people fighting? Not a movie where people fight -- there are lots of good movies where people fight -- but where the base material is an actual fighting game?
I'd love to be proven wrong, but I think movies like that can only hope to rank with the best of niche genre films (Enter The Dragon is maybe the best of the "fighting tournament plus plot" genre -- then you filter down to those "Best of the Best" movies, one of which I think had James Earl Jones).
Posted on January 1, 2008 10:14 AM
The new game looks awesome. Hope it comes out for Wii.
As for the film, Jessica Biel was the rumor; but Smallville's Kristin Kreuk appears to be the reality.
The film will be directed by Andrjez Bartkowiak, the man responsible for 2006's Doom. Like Uwe Boll and Paul W.S. Anderson before him, after Bartkowiak allowed himself to direct video game movie, it looks like he'll be spending his entire career making video game movies. Let that be a lesson to any hopeful auteurs out there.
I love Street Fighter II, and even thought the animated movie from Japan was pretty decent. As for a second American live action feature, I got zero hope after Raul Julia's swan song.
However, there is a great series of online short films entitled, Street Fighter: The Later Years. It's a hilarious sequel featuring the misadventures of all the popular Street Fighter characters, washed-up past their prime. My favorite part would have to be when Balrog asked, "What's a kick?"
Here's the first part - much better than the Van Damme film:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1711287
Posted on January 1, 2008 11:51 AM