(LAST UPDATE: 7/16/09)
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Developer(s): Capcom
Publisher(s): Capcom
Designer(s): Noritaka Funamizu, Haruo Murata (planners)
Platform(s): Arcade,
Super Nintendo, 3DO, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, Dreamcast, Playstation, PSN,
XBLA, Wii Virtual Console
Release: October 1993 (Arcade)
Characters:
Ryu,
Ken,
Chun-Li,
Guile,
Dhalsim,
Blanka,
Zangief,
E.Honda,
Balrog,
Vega,
Sagat,
Bison,
Cammy,
Fei
Long, Dee Jay, T.
Hawk
Related Games:
Street
Fighter, Street Fighter 2, Street
Fighter 2 Champion Edition,
Street Fighter
2 Turbo, 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 2, Street Fighter EX 3, Street
Fighter: The Movie,
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo,
Super
Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, Pocket
Fighter
Review: Super Street Fighter 2 is the fourth installment to the Street Fighter 2. Rightfully so, four new characters and stages were added to the roster! Classic characters have been given some new moves, voice acting was re-worked, along with new sound effects and music. The gameplay was as good as ever, characters were balanced out and the game speed was also tuned.
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Each character had eight
selectable colors...
Which was pretty much the best "customization" options you could get for back then!
Players could choose between a character's original color scheme, their color
schemes from Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting, or one of five new color
schemes featured in the game. Super Street Fighter II also presented a cool
new scoring system which kept track of combos, first attacks, reversals and
recoveries made by the player and awarded the player with bonus points!
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In addition to the standard single and two-player game modes, Super
Street Fighter II also featured "Tournament Battle" which was an
eight-player single-elimination tournament mode! This mode was only available
when four SSF2 arcade cabinets were connected together and all of them
configured to the Tournament mode. This mode consists of three sets of four
simultaneous matches: the initial eliminations, the semifinals and the finals.
After the first set is over, the players are re-arranged accordingly based on
their position: the winning players sent to either of the first two cabinets,
whereas losing players sent to one of the other two. In the finals, the players
competing for first place are sent to the first cabinet, the third-place players
to the second cabinet, and so on.
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- Review is for Arcade version of Super Street Fighter 2 - |
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9.5 / 10 |
Closing Comment: Super Street Fighter 2 was a solid and memorable update to the series and the also the most "recognizable" one yet... The new characters introduced each complimented the series and offered their own unique style of fighting. Most arcade-goers were convinced that this was the greatest fighting game to date, judging by how many people were playing it alone... Though, people played it for a reason. SSF2's controls and overall gameplay was still among the best you could get among fighting games in 1993. ~F.Yagami, Webmaster of TFG
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