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Street Fighter Anniversary Collection

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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.

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.

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

My fond memories of playing Street Fighter II at the arcades, but I would probably still say that I love Street Fighter Anniversary Collection even if I hadn't played Street Fighter II before. The game includes Hyper Street Fighter II(a blend of a number of Street Fighter II versions) and includes Street Fighter III. Both of these games are good on there own, and the fact they are together makes this game a must buy. This is a very good port.

I agree with the reviewer below who complained about the cheap@#$ A.I. in this game. On SFII mode, I had to set the difficulty to "easiest" to have a chance at beating the computer who does the same cheap moves like throwing hadoken fireballs or yoga fire over and over again faster than a human possibly can. The characters like T.Hawk who don't have fireballs or the equivalent just launch themselves at you repeatedly and steadily drain your strength. It reminds me of the jerk#$%$ who played M.Bison in the arcades and just kept doing the flying corkscrew headbutt deal over and over so that even if you block it, you lose bits of stamina and finally lose. Yuk. After 15 years, Capcom should have been able to improve on the arcade A.I., not make it worse which is what they've done here. Also, the announcer voice is terrible and is not the one from the old Street Fighter II arcade games, someone told me it's the voice from the SuperSFII. Whatever the case, it's sounds pipsqueaky and lame compared to the deep voiced anouncer from the days of yore. I also don't understand why they didn't put all the old versions of street fighter II on here to play separately. As it is, you can pick which era your character will come from but there's no authentic version of any of the old games, just a hybrid combination where you'll be at a disadvantage if you don't choose the super turbo characters bacause that's what the computer invariably chooses. Lazy and foolish since people would only buy this obsolete game to relive their memories of SFII, not to play some screwy hybrid version that doesn't improve gameplay but actually makes it less satisfying.
SFIII Third Strike is better but still antiquated by today's standards. At least the A.I. on SFIII isn't quite as cheap. The animated SFII movie is included but it's retarded and will probably hold your attention for all of about 7 minutes before you get disgusted by how god awful the voice dubovers are.
Capcom seems to have cut a lot of corners with this "collection" as the extras are few and far between and not really exciting anyway. The menu screens look crappy and Capcom probably saved a lot of money by just throwing this presentation together since it comes across like we're living in the super nintendo days. I guess what I mean to say is that certain little elements could've been spruced up since as it is, the SFII graphics and sound here look slightly worse than the 1991 arcade game; inexcusable for an xbox title 15 years later. The controller doesn't lend itself very well to this series either, though I guess you can buy an arcade style joystick if you wanna shell out 60 bucks or whatever they're going for. I got this game used for like 15 bucks and it's probably just barely worth it, but I don't see myself playing it as much as I thought I would. Xbox live gamers and people with friends to play the versus mode with might enjoy this game more than me who just plays against the computer. I don't really know anybody much into this kind of stuff anymore as I was rather on the old end of the spectrum for playing video games even when SFII came out in 1991. If you plan on playing the A.I. and not friends or live gamers online, you might want to give this one a miss or at least rent it first. The one good thing is you can get it used for probably 20 bucks without much problem; charging anymore would have been inexcusable, in my humble opinion.

Wow, ever since the sega genesis and the super nes have gone off the market I had forgotten all about the street fighter series. After seeing the anime on television, I had to have the street fighter games. Alas, I have an xbox and I couldn't find a street fighter game for it. But wait, did capcom actually make a six-in-one with a bonus movie. You bet they did. This anniversary series is one of the coolest games I have because it allows me to go back to when I was 12 or something like that and play the Street Fighter series all over.

However, this game does have its downfalls. For one, I can't believe how much I incredibly sucked when playing Street Fighter 2 and its various versions. My god, it almost seemed impossible to me. But I know with practice... Next, the character Gill in Street Fighter 3 is just crazy hard. While I have beaten the game, Gill still remains a challenge all the time with his stupid ressurection special. IF you do not play video games all day every day and are like me who just play video games every once in a while then you will notice what I am talking about. However, if you are a combo making butt kicker then you will probably have no problem.

All in all, this wasn't a bad game. It is just a little frustrating at times. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wanted to play any of the old Street Fighter's or the new Street Fighter 3.

I was dissapointed to find out that online play is no longer available for this game. But my T.E. fightstick does work on it and aside from not being able to play online it's a great game and Third Strike is awesome!

It has 2 games in one as well as one of the animated movies. Both games work well and are fun to play.

I remember getting an SNES when I was a kid specifically for SF II. It is one of the few games I still enjoy playing now as an adult. Even with SSF IV being released (which I love playing), at times I still like going back to the old-school fighting games for that nostalgic action. If you're like me, then definitely pick up SFAC if you haven't already.
This is one of the few original Xbox games that lives of to the Microsoft promise of backwards compatibility with the Xbox 360. It is fully compatible with the 360; I didn't notice any glitching or slowdown on the SFII games and only minor glitching on SFIII during the SUV bonus stage. Other than that, the gameplay is smooth and clean. The controls are, of course, faithful to the games and very responsive even with the 360 controller.
I like how the SFII games lets you choose the speed and even character styles from all the different SFII releases. I wish they would've done the same for SFIII; making it a mix between the three strikes (I kinda miss the cut scenes from SFIII 1st strike). But regardless of any small detractions, this is still a very worthy release of some of the best classic 2D fighing games ever!

I could not help but buy this when I heard it had a release on Xbox. Yes, it's backwards compatible with the 360 which makes the purchase even sweeter for those of you who like Street Fighter. It comes with SSFII and SFIII: Third Strike. I care much for Street Fighter II because I play Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix on live but the big purchase is Street Fighter III: Third Strike. I definitely recommend it since it's the best Street Fighter game in my opinion if you are looking to get away from Street Fighter IV for a while. Lots of replayability, classic characters, sweet music, and versus/online play. I wish I had found this sooner.