There's a new Street Fighter for home consoles, for the first time since the release of SF 3 Third Strike in 1999 (!). I tried the new one in the Arcades when I was in Japan last year, and it seemed like a very solid game. In particular the graphics are very impressive, and I think it's the most beautiful and expressive 3D Fighter to date.Naturally, not all of the animated details from the 2D SF3 (which I still consider the best animated videogame at all) could be transferred into three dimensions, and some characters' animations (most notably Chun Li's expressive walks and idle animations) seem to be more "generic", but it's still very cool looking, and 3D Graphics have other advantages of course.
Unfortunately I don't own a fitting game console for SF 4, but since they will (as always) release more, finely-tweaked iterations if the game over the next two years, I could just as well wait a bit for the obligatory inital fixes in game design, balancing, price drops and to see if the game proves itself among the Street Fighter Fans. But the game already is entertaining as hell.
Bini
