Okay, after playing Street Fighter 2 Turbo, I decided to revisit one of my favorite video games of all time: Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. Now I haven't reviewed a game on Vizzed in a long time, so I may be out of touch. Now, Street Fighter is an interesting game. Almost every Street Fighter game ended up in arcades because of its arcade style fighting game, like Mortal Kombat. Street Fighter II on Game Boy was mediocre, but it got a great upgrade. And the Super Nintendo can do that to a series. Super Mario World is considered the best Mario game of all time, and Super Metroid is...well, you get the idea. Street Fighter even got an animated television series, crappy movie adaptations, and there was the animated movies which actually had something to do with Street Fighter. But anyways, I shouldn't ramble on, let's get my Street Fighter marathon started. I'll be reviewing every Street Fighter game I can find. Let's get started.

Story: 5/10

The Street Fighter story line is rather simple. Fighters from around the world compete in the "Street Fighter Circuit" to determine who is the best fighter in the world, and the star, Ryu, wants to become the world warrior as well as everyone else. The Street Fighter movies do open up a little more about the plot, for an example, Sagat of Thailand, murdered Ryu's father. M. Bison killed Chun Li's master, Gen. Ryu and Akuma, who isn't even in this game, were close, but they then became rivals. If you're looking for the story in the video games, look else where. The story in the game is average, but the movies will do a much better job explaining the plot.

Depth: 5/10

Street Fighter is NOT a long game at all. You fight 12 people in a random order, however the final 4 are set at a specific order. You can play as these characters: Ryu of Japan, E. Honda of Japan, Blanka of Brazil, Guile of U.S.A, Balrog of U.S.A, Ken of U.S.A, Chun Li of China, Zangief of the U.S.S.R, Dhalsim of India, Sagat of Thailand, Vega of Spain, Thunder Hawk of Mexico, Feilong of "HongKong", Dee Jay of Jamaica, Cammy of England, and M. Bison of Thailand. This edition of Street Fighter surely does add more from Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. There is 16 different endings, one for each character. By pressing a specific button when you select your character, you can recolor their clothes or skin color. I kinda liked this added feature, but now I have to reset the game to experiment with this feature. It took me a while to figure out what button sets your character's color to the default setting. Every three characters you defeat, there will be a bonus stage, of which you're timed. The first one consists of destroying a car, destroying a pile of bricks, and destroying falling barrels. When the bonus stage comes around the corner, your adrenaline will go up 50%. You have 60 seconds to destroy as much as possible, and getting points in this game is super satisfying. Other than the classic arcade mode, there's a versus mode if you have a buddy along with you. Ah, the versus mode. One of the games that turned my living room into a wrestling ring. There's also group mode, which is basically an elimination game, which isn't really fun to play, and there's also a tournament mode. Frankly, I never use this mode, but it does seem like a fun concept. It's basically like the tourney mode in Super Smash Bros Brawl. The only real difference to that tourney mode is that Street Fighter is a one on one tournament fighter. Walking backwards and whatnot ( Kinda like the final boss of Ghosts N' Goblins, which is also a Capcom game). This game doesn't offer much, but that doesn't mean this game isn't fun to play. If you want a game with a lot of depth, I would recommend Street Fighter IV on the XBOX 360.

Difficulty: 5/10

Unlike most tournament fighters like Mortal Kombat, this game is NOT difficult. This isn't the easiest Street Fighter game, but this ranks as one of the easiest. First of all, it partially depends on the character you're playing as. I don't like characters such as Zangief or E. Honda because they're bulky, making them a giant target, their jump is incredibly low, and I can never figure out the moves. However with Ryu, Cammy, and M. Bison, the moves are easy to figure out, they're powerful, and they're just the right weight. Next, it's the moves. Characters have their unique moves, and with every character, there's a move you can flat-out just spam. Ryu is famous for his Hadouken, and Sagat with his cheap Hadouken rip-off, but every character can spam one thing most of the time: The grab, You see, if you simply press B, you can grab your opponent and throw them on the ground. Everyone can do it, the move does a lot of damage, it's easy to spam, it looks cool, and it's just satisfying to do. And finally there's the characters. Since the order you fight the characters in is generated at random, you never know who you're gonna fight. The opponents get stronger as you progress, which is why Street Fighter is sometimes based off luck. Thunder Hawk has always been the bane of my life. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to not have to fight him, or I have to fight him at the very beginning, or I get him at the end, when he becomes a nightmare. Some characters are always easy, and some characters' difficulty vary based off when you fight him/her. Overall, Street Fighter is not a very hard game at all. If you're looking for something that's hardcore in difficulty, I would try Mortal Kombat.

Graphics: 8/10

Like pretty much every Super Nintendo game, the graphics are well done, and honestly, this game in particular has the best graphics of any other Street Fighter game, other than Street Fighter IV. There's not much to say about the graphics here. You can see everything clearly, the background and sprites are well done, and the game looks colorful. This game isn't as realistic as Mortal Kombat, but this game appeals to me because it's a lot less gruesome and because Street Fighter is TECHNICALLY a Japanese anime video game. It was made by Capcom of course, but Street Fighter is popular in Japan. And yes, the characters are....anime-style or whatever the word for it is.

Sound: 6/10

Leaving Street Fighter IV out of the picture, I haven't been too big of a fan of the voice acting in the games. Sometimes, it's as good as Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road on the NES, and the voice acting was HILARIOUS in that game. The sound effects for attacks, I'm a fan of. Though, some of them are very cartoony. This game's soundtrack blew me away, however. I especially like Cammy's theme, T. Hawk's theme, Guile's theme, and just every track in this game is well composed and catchy.

Replay-Ability: 7/10

The fact that there's 16 great characters, four different modes, different colors for characters, and 16 different endings, I think this game manages to be very addicting. Since this game is rather short, and the fact that tournament fighters manage to be very addicting games, I think Street Fighter is one of the most addicting games ever made. As you can tell, I am a big fan of tournament fighters. Unless you're forever alone or lazy, this game won't appeal to you. No friends means no versus mode, and if you're lazy, you can't experience all 16 different endings, and all the different colored suits. Overall, Street Fighter manages to take what gamers think is addicting, and put it together into one masterpiece.

Overall: 8.4/10

Overall, I would rate this game an 8.4/10. Everything about this game makes it wonderful, and I think it has aged well. This game is great for if you're bored and if you have a friend over. Who knows, you could do tournaments for this game. Anyways, this game has great characters, sound, replay-ability, the difficulty is just right, and it's one of my favorite game genres. This game is also the reason I like anime so much. So if you have time, this is a classic you surely should try out.

Now, for my Street Fighter marathon, I want to hear what you guys think. Should I review Street Fighter II on Game Boy? I think it's the worst Street Fighter game out there, and there really isn't much to say about it. There's also the Final Fight series, and Street Fighter 2010 for the NES, which is...yeah, you probably know about that one. Anyways, this is PixelBrick, and thanks for reading!

PixelBrick : Your reviews are always really good, you put time and effort into this and you judge fairly. You really make it feel like I'm going through the motions of the game and I'm eager to give it a play, especially if I have friends over!