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STREET FIGHTER 2 REVIEW
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Gaaarrghh! Not another one! Yes. You thought you had heard the last of
Street Fighter 2 - drowned in a pool of fighting game clones, but no -
it is here, in this review! (snip - ED)
Well, so what's the ST version of SF2 like then?
SF2 comes with four disk and a multi-lingual manual (one which makes
you think "Oh good - this manual looks really detailed" but instead
there are about ten pages per language (and about four languages
catered for!)
You slap in disk 1 (well, you could try another one, but you won't get
very far [try it, though]) and wait a bit. After a relatively short
time, you get to the game.
First, you get a rather dodgy bit of animation at the front where one
bloke hits another bloke (that's it), and then you go to the title
sequence. You can either sit there and read the credits and hiscore
table, or press 1 or 2 to play (1 or 2 players).
Next you select the method of controls (joystick, keyboard, or a
mixture of both), switch the timer on or off, and finally the
difficulty level (0-7).
Then you go to the world map, where you can choose to be one of the
eight fighters (here we go); RYU, E HONDA, BLANKA, GUILE, KEN, CHUN LI,
ZANGIEF, or DHALSIM. Each character has his or her own set of normal
and special moves.
Once you have selected your player, the computer selects your first
opponent (or if in a two-player game, you choose your scene and
handicap, and fight eachother in it.) Unfortunately, the computer has a
nasty habit of selecting an opponent who is on a different disk, so you
always end up swapping disks more often.
Eventually, your opponent, and his country's background loads up, and
you get to fight. The idea is to continually batter at your opponent
until his health bar reaches 0, whereupon he or she gets KO'd. The
fight ends when either you or your opponent have won two rounds.
There is a general set of moves for each player (ie. kick, punch, jump,
flying kick, etc.) but each one has some extra special moves which are
exclusive to that player (except RYU and KEN who are both exactly the
same). Some of these special moves are easy to do (like GUILE's SONIC
BOOM) which require holding the joystick in one direction for a second,
then moving and pressing FIRE, while some are move complicated (like
RUY's FIREBALL) which require waggling the joystick in three different
directions. The game becomes frustrating when you cannot fire the
special moves, and get battered because of that.
Once you have defeated the other seven opponents, you go on to fight
the four Grandmasters, BALROG, VEGA, SAGAT, and M BISON. These guys are
harder than the first eight (except BALROG who is a wimp), and give
extra points when defeated. Once all of the opponents have been
defeated, (and you set the skill level to 3 or higher) then you get a
small story of what happened afterwards.
Also, at certain points during the game, you get 3 sub-games. One
involves you in smashing in a car, one has you in a cellar kicking
barrels that roll towards you, and the last one has you kicking in oil
drums which set on fire.
So, that's what happens during the game, but is it all any good? Well,
let's take each category in turn.
GRAPHICS - The player's graphics are pretty well-drawn and colourful,
but less can be said about some of the backgrounds. The scrolling isn't
much better, though. The screen scrolls in steps of 16 and with no
parallax effect, and the players move likewise (or in steps of 8).
There is no animation, either.
SOUND FX - There are quite a few samples in the game which are of
fairly good quality. They do tend to interefere with the music at
times, though.
MUSIC - Three-channel chip music here, which is not very good at all.
Luckily, there is an option to turn the music off during the game.
PLAYABILITY - The wide variety of players and moves makes each game
slightly different, but the difficulty of executing some of the moves
spoils it a bit.
VALUE FOR MONEY - If you are a SF2 fan, you might think this is worth
it, but it is too expensive to just say "Oh, I think I'll just get that
with the 25 quid I have left over".
OVERALL - 85% - Great game with crap music. Spoiled by the many small
twerks in the game.
PS. This game can be very very frustrating and annoying sometimes when
you just cannot defeat an opponent. Sometimes your punches go straight
through them, and they hit you instead (watch out for BLANKA!)
Article: BLACK EAGLE 7/7/93