(LAST UPDATE: 7/13/09)
Developer(s): Incredible
Technologies
Publisher(s): Capcom
Platform(s): Arcade,
Sega Saturn, Playstation
Release: June 1995
Characters:
Ryu,
Ken,
Chun-Li,
Guile,
Dhalsim,
Blanka,
Zangief,
E.Honda,
Balrog,
Vega,
Sagat,
Bison,
Cammy,
Dee
Jay, Akuma, Blade,
Arkane, Sawada,
F7, Khyber
Related Games:
Street
Fighter, Street Fighter 2, Street
Fighter 2 Champion Edition,
Street Fighter
2 Turbo, Super Street Fighter 2,
Super
Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Super Street Fighter
2 Turbo: Revival, Super Street Fighter
2 Turbo HD Remix,
Street Fighter 3: New Generation,
Street
Fighter 3: Second Impact, Street Fighter
3: Third Strike,
Street Fighter 4,
Street
Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street
Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper,
Street
Fighter Alpha 3 Max, Street Fighter
Alpha: Anthology, Street Fighter
Anniversary Collection, Street Fighter EX,
Street
Fighter EX 3,
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo,
Super
Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, Pocket
Fighter
Review: Sometimes,
good video game franchises are made into bad movies... This was certainly the case with
the horrible, yet timelessly funny (not in a good way) Street Fighter:
The Movie starring Jean Claude Van
Damme as Guile and Raul Julia as Bison, which bombed at the box office in late
1994. This movie.... *shivers* ... This
movie was bad. So bad, you'd be overpaying if you bought it for $2.99 from
Wal-mart's DVD bin. 
Shit, if you're going to buy this atrocity, you might as well get the Blu-ray
version and go all out. 
Occasionally,
very occasionally,
bad movies are turned into even worse games... And you guessed it, Street Fighter:
The Movie Game is the prime example. This game... *twitch twitch* ... This game
was bad. It's so bad, you wouldn't even want to "insert 2 coins"
to play it at an arcade because you'd be overpaying.
I purposely neglected putting this game on TFG for years... Yes, it's that bad. It really is. I can't believe I'm actually writing a review on such a shitty, shitty (that's 2), shitty (that's 3) game. I'll try to make this review as quick as possible to keep anyone from killing themselves and/or turning retarded. Let's start with the graphics, which were digitized much like the Mortal Kombat series. Capcom pretty much said "Midway did it, why can't we?" ... Even though Capcom had nothing to do with the game's creation, they had the audacity to put their name on it. Incredible Technologies was responsible for everything horrible about this game, notably the graphics and animations. The way characters walk and dare I say, "fight," is laughable and awkward at their very best moments. Are those actors really that uncoordinated, or is that just bad animation? Actually, I think both are factors.
The gameplay
is equally as bad as the graphics, with horribly stiff controls. I don't
really want to talk about the gameplay because it makes me sad... 
A "Street Fighter" game should not have horrible gameplay, but this one does.
The sound in general is also below average, with horrid hit effects, and
annoyingly bad music. The home versions included new voice acting, music,
and stages... but it didn't help much. The character
roster is highlighted by a horribly designed selection screen, where hair
seems to have been confused with pixels... or vice versa. I'm not sure.
The characters that actually made the cut hardly look like themselves in
many cases. It's actually a disgrace to call them by their original names...
So I won't name any of them. There were also some "secret" filler characters.....
we just won't go there. And if you want character profiles for those extra
characters, you're out of luck.
For the home
versions, Capcom actually developed the PlayStation and Saturn versions
internally, changing the arcade game's appearance in a few ways, and also
remixing the music and stages. They also used Japanese voice actors that actually
sounded like the voices of the original characters. Capcom also
reprogrammed the game engine making it play more similar to Super
Street Fighter II Turbo. The home versions were published in North
America by Acclaim. Differences in the character roster for the home version
include: Blade and the palette-swap Bison troopers are gone, Akuma is now
a hidden character, Blanka and Dee Jay have been added. Still, the upgrades to
the home versions don't change the fact that this game should have never
happened.
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2 / 10 |
Closing Comment:
Worst Capcom fighting game ever? Check. Worst fighting game ever... Hmmm, it
comes close actually. Let's not mention this game... *cough* "Disgrace to
everything that is Street Fighter" ever again.
~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG
