Street Fighter: The Movie

As a Street Fighter fan I decided to try and defend the video game based on an underrated movie. I enjoyed the live-action movie back in 1994 and it carries my general perspective of Street Fighter.

Many people complain about the movie straying from the game's plot, and all the characters were changed. This isn't necessarily true, the game's plot isn't that deep: you, as one of the Street Fighter characters, try to bust a drug lord and his minions. It's a little deeper than the Super Mario Bros. movie's plot (two plumbers trying to save the day), but try making a 90-minute movie out of it.

Same for the movie's views of the characters. Most of them are close enough to the game's characters. The movie did portray Guile, Bison, Chun-Li, Sagat, Ken, Ryu, Cammy, Zangief and Vega correctly (Guile and Chun-Li both still have personal vendettas against Bison, Ken and Ryu have their rivalries with Sagat and Vega, etc). I had no problems with E. Honda, and Blanka and Dhalsim only briefly appear (I personally prefer the 'Charlie mutated into Blanka' story). The only characterization problem the movie had was that a few characters just weren't shown right. Steven E. DeSouza should've just re-cast the actor playing T. Hawk. Plus, Balrog and DeeJay swapped alignments, but that's all. Most of the World Warriors and Grand Master characters ARE correctly depicted, just the New Challengers (exception being Cammy) just needed better casting.

The arcade game, Street Fighter: the Movie, was released around the same time Mortal Kombat 3 was. (I never got to play the arcade game, but I'm willing to bet SF:TM was the better game) It also contained Come Back moves, red Super moves, juggle-me-til-I-die combos, all that good stuff. Playing as Balrog, Bison, Cammy, Chun-Li, Guile, Honda, Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Vega or Zangief, you play to determine the fate of the AN relief worker hostages and the free world. Also included were Capt. Sawada, Akuma and Bison soldier Blade. Hidden characters were palette swapped Bison troopers, like Arkane, F7 and Khyber (I think Blanka was hidden in somewhere, too).

I like the home version of Street Fighter: the Movie, it played like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo with movie graphics. However, Blade was gone, and Akuma was now a hidden character again. At least you now got Blanka and DeeJay back. (Wish they spent a little more time on Blanka's design, though.) One thing I did like was the music, the power of the good or bad guy win music gets me pumped.

All I'm saying is, it might not be the best game ever, but you could do a lot worse. (N64 Superman, anyone?) If Capcom ever does a complication Street Fighter game for a future system, they should release the arcade game for it, to give it a bit more publicity.

This is NOT the worst game ever created. I've played in arcades much more worse that SFTM...

Graphics: quite good Animation: a little crappy Sound: very bad Playability: good but not as good as other beat'em-ups

It's not the best, neither the worst. Just another one game...

This is the worst game ever created. Bad gameplay, crappy animation , and the sound just sucks. The movie sucks, but I rather watch the movie then play this game.

How does one play as Chun Li(as HERSELF???) I am just saying. It is hard for an actress to play as a character playing as herself. That will somehow tear a giant rift in the time space continuum as we know it. In doing so, the universe will collapse, and then in a feat of miraculousness, explode. After exploding, the pieces will re-merge and then implode from the massive change in gravitation forces. Turning everything back into Chun Li as CHUN LI...not herself. Otherwise we would just go through the whole process, all over again. And nobody likes that. Not even Hugh Hefner. And he likes everything. We think that perhaps if you want Chun Li in your movie, you should just get her to play herself, as opposed to someone playing her, playing someone else. The actor-line for Chun Li shows the actresses name...playing Chun Li(as the actresses name).

A game (by Acclaim & Capcom) that is based on a movie which has been based on a video game, and the result of it, a pitiful game that perform the Street Fighter series in a bad appearance and got a lot of bad observation. I' will focus on specific things in this game; I'll only focus on general issues.

Lot of people may say that this game was the worst Street Fighter game that ever been created and they might be right. This game got lot of bad thing in it. For start it was based on a really bad movie that was not successful, even in a minimum way.

But the creators of this game thought that maybe the game will be better and will successes more than the movie. And in a short time they been proved that they were wrong and this game will be inferior more than the movie itself.

Now, the game play wasn't really good, in fact, it had 'poor controls' same goes for the animation and the sound rather 'surface' in some perception. Despite that, it kind of reminded me of Mortal Combat 2 in terms of game style, don't know why this is just me opinion that I'm sure of.

The casting include: Guile, Chun-Li, M.Bison, Cammy, Ryu, ken, Sagat, Vega, Zangief, Balrog, Honda, Blade, C. Sawada, and Akuma that didn't shown in the movie but is attended in the game as a hidden character.

In conclusion this game has created lot of bad opinions about Street Fighter Movie: The game for some peoples mind. I would say, not to get this game, because you will hate it for sure, but if someone is a really collector of Street Fighter games so he must get it, if not so then don't, it'll be waste of your money.