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Super Street Fighter IV – for the PS3

The obscene number of adjectives in the title is warranted. Sure, this is basically the same old Super Street Fighter that many of us pumped full of quarters nearly 15 years ago, but this version feels…definitive. You know that thing you always wanted in a Street Fighter game, whatever it is? Yeah, it’s in here. And its done right. Let’s start with the obvious: the new visuals are gorgeous, thanks to the crisp 1080p resolution. Every single piece of art has been masterfully redrawn, yet the characters and stages almost remain immediately recognizable. It’s easy to feel like this is how the game was always intended to look. And purists need not be afraid. Not only is the original code still running underneath all the fancy new graphics, but you can never revert back to the pixel-tastic version of the characters.

In fact, despite every welcome upgrades to nearly every aspect of the game, going is almost always an option. The game features a slightly rebalanced version of the original that plays beautifully but “classic” mode still appears front and centre in the game select menu. The music, too, has been brilliantly remixed, but guess what? All the old songs are still in there. Really customization is the greatest strength; you can adjust everything from the number of rounds to the game speed to the controller setup. Hyperbolic as it sounds, this is quite possibly the best all around version of one of the most important fighting games of all time.

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