Birdie and Charlie Nash make their return to the Street Fighter universe, where they join classic characters like Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy, and M. Bison. Many more new and returning characters will be added to the diverse roster, offering a wide variety of fighting styles for players to choose from.
New Strategies and Battle Mechanics: Highly accessible new battle mechanics, which revolve around the V-Gauge and EX Gauge, provide a new layer of strategy and depth to the franchise that all players can enjoy. V-Trigger: Unique abilities that use the entire V-Gauge, giving players the opportunity to inflict damage when activated. V-Skill: Utility skills (such as evasion) for each character that can be activated at any time.
V-Reversal: Unique counterattacks that use one stock of the V-Gauge. Critical Arts: Ultimate attacks that use the entire EX Gauge. For the first time in franchise history, the online community is unified into a single player pool, allowing for even more rivalries to be born.
Street Fighter V is also available on PS4.
Street Fighter V delivers where it counts as a fighting game, the gameplay, and makes leaps and bounds of improvement everywhere else. That makes it a must-buy if you're any type of fan of the series—especially since there are no Super, Ultra or Turbo versions coming out in the future.
At launch, SFV is merely serviceable for the seasoned online warrior. For the beginner, it is simply abysmal.
Launch troubles and lack of single player aside (which this score addresses), Street Fighter V is a brilliant fighting game. While currently in its infant stage, Street Fighter V will continue to grow into something amazing.
As soon as Street Fighter 5 was announced to the public, I was immediately taken back to my childhood days – but maybe for the wrong reasons. Yet again, the game was mostly ignored by the media. The same thing happened to Street Fighter 3 in the late 90s. But Capcom still worked diligently on their Beat 'Em Up. The end result might look a little small on overall content, but as Capcom promised, Street Fighter 5 will constantly get new content until the end of the PS4-era.
At the moment, with its fantastic gameplay but a serious lack of content, Street Fighter 5 is a solid 7/10; a good game that is a great for fans of the genre but can’t be recommended to all. Hopefully though, in a year’s time when the promised features have been added and the roster of fighters has been increased in number, it’ll be worthy of a 9/10. Until then however, those looking for single player fighting thrills should look elsewhere to get their kicks, whilst those wanting to just play online will definitely enjoy Street Fighter 5, but may find its repetition of stages and fighters slightly irksome.
With control options on the PC being rather limited, the game is only good for those who care about competition. For everyone else looking for something closer to what the older games provided, give it a month to see if things improve.
If you're looking for anything other than a solid fighting game with strong netcode, you should probably hold off until the game sees a few more updates.
December 19, 2019
Street Fighter VI To Release In 2021 Worldwide, according to some rumors.
December 17, 2018
Kage opens Season 4 of Street Fighter V. Read more
December 18, 2017
Street Fighter V exceeds 2.5 million units sold.
October 5, 2017
Capcom officially announces Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition for the 16th of January 2018. Watch video
September 26, 2017
Street Fighter V adds more content: the game will add today a new stage and costumes. Read more
August 28, 2017
Street Fighter V unveils its new fighter: Menat. Watch video
April 5, 2017
Capcom will publish at the end of April the remastered version of the Thailand stage for Street Fighter V.
December 21, 2018
Street Fighter 5 skips Season Pass for 2019. Read more
