Street Fighter Anniversary Collection

by Capcom

Product Features

• Go to the arcade without leaving the house, by playing Hyper Street Fighter II
• Play a complete version of the arcade smash, Street Fighter III - 3rd Strike
• Have your dream matches as you take on characters taken from SFII World Warrior, Champion Edition, Hyper Fighting, The New Challengers and Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Product Details

• ASIN: B0002B90BW
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,167 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

A combination of two Classic Fighting Games! Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike and Hyper Street Fighter: 2!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 15 years and running, still one of the best, March 9, 2006

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Joshua Whittington (Paso Robles, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Video Game)

OK, quick summation of what this is: It has two games. One is Hyper SF2, which contains all five incarnations of SF2 rolled into one. The other is SF3: 3rd Strike, which is a separate and unique game that was overlooked by most gamers because of the advent of 3D fighters like Tekken. It also has the Street Fighter animated movie, for what that's worth (not much in my view but you might disagree).

Hyper SF2 is just as excellent and playable as you remember it with only two problems. One, as other reviewers have mentioned, is that the AI opponent is very cheap/hard (and it only uses Super SF2 characters). The other is that most Xbox/PS2 controllers do not handle the special moves well. You're not limited by character version; that is, you can pit Original SF2 Dhalsim against Super SF2 Guile. That's 50+ character variations, and while there's not much difference between them, there are a few minor instances of imbalance.

I really like SF3 because it's unique. The parry system is gutsy and helps remove most imbalances (only Yun and Yang are too fast). The characters are well designed, and the animation is the most fluid out of any 2D fighter ever. Sure, the last boss is too hard, but the single-player is not the selling point of a fighting game.

In both games, I found online play pretty laggy, and had to wait a while to find someone to play, which was disappointing. I think that it's way more fun to bring people together physically to play these games, like they used to gather around the arcade machine.

My only other complaint is that they could have included Street Fighter Alpha here, too, but didn't. The PS2 now has the Alpha Anthology, but for those looking for SF Alpha for Xbox or GameCube, your best bet is Capcom v. SNK 2 (but NOT the crappy Capcom Fighting Evolution).

If you like fighting games, get this one. I recommend also getting the SF Anniversary controller (they're $15 and work great with all fighting games) to maximize the control tightness. Then get your friends over and party like it's 1990.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classics with online play, February 26, 2005

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Simply Ravishing (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Video Game)

Well, it has finally arrived. Street Fighter: Anniversary Edition includes Hyper Street Fighter II: The anniversary edition, Street Fighter III: Thrid Strike, as well as Street Fighter II the animated movie all for a great price of 30 bucks.

The movie version that is included with this game, however, is plain awful. Poorly dubbed ("Ryu, you are so, sen. si. tive!") and sometimes the scene is cut off before the character can even finish the sentence. ("How can I decline that invitat...)

This game was released for the Sony Playstation 2 around summer of 04, but it did not have online capability like the Xbox version does. As soon as you get the game on Xbox Live, you are required to download something (I am being told that it fixes the rematch bug) as people who imported it earlier were having problems with rematches. Hyper Street Fighter II: Anniversary Edition lets you pick between five character versions of SFII that were released. (Note: this does not include all 5 versions of the actual game, just the characters of those versions). Capcom has yet to fix the dropping issue found in Capcom vs SNK 2 EO, which I will not get into here, but most people already know what it is. I was really hoping they would solve that problem, but evidently not. Add in Street Fighter III: Third Strike and this is an excellent addition to your game collection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2 of the greatest fighters of all time finally go online, April 5, 2005

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m121akuma - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Video Game)

There is little doubt that Street Fighter 2 is one of the most influential games of all time. It is the game that put competetive arcade fighting on the map, created one of the most memorable casts of characters in gaming history, and turned the word "Shoryuken!" into one of the most dreded words in a gamer's vocabulary. Now, after 15 years since the release of SF1, gamers can finally relive the magic in a new format, Xbox Live.
This disk actually contains 2 games, Hyper Street Fighter 2, and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. Hyper SF2 is an interesting anniversary tribute, in that it allows to to mix and match characters from all 5 versions of SF2. This can lead to a few balance issues, in that the classic SF2 characters still have their redizzy combos, making them overpowered, it still is fun and an excellent conversion of some of the best fighting gameplay around.
To this day, I still consider Third Strike to be the greatest fighting game of all time. Although it is not perfectly balanced, there is a great range of characters and playing styles to choose from that are quite usable in competetive play. The graphics use some of the best animation I've seen in a 2d fighter, and the gameplay is incredibly deep, due to the parry and EX attack systems.
The online play is extremely solid, with very little lag and a nice ranking system. The biggest gripe at this point is the fact that droppers get away scot free. If somebody drops from a match before completion, he or she will recieve no penalty, which causes many people to drop matches they know they will lose out of fear of dropping in ranking. Other than that, if you are a fighting fan with an Xbox Live account, you will want to pick up this game, no question.
-m121akuma