Street Fighter Anniversary Collection

by Capcom

Product Features

• Go to back 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, Champion Edition, Hyper Fighter, The New Challengers and Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002B90OE
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,108 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #19 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Action
  • #39 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > All Games
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

From the Manufacturer

Get ready to celebrate 15 years of Street Fighter supremacy. Street Fighter Anniversary Collection brings you the best of the best. This awesome compilation features Hyper Street Fighter II, a blend of five Street Fighter II games in one plus the arcade smash hit, Street Fighter III: Third Strike. Hyper Street Fighter II allows you to mix and match characters from different games to create your own extreme dream matches. Prepare yourself for the ultimate collection of ultimate fighters.

Product Description

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection is an all-encompassing fighting, bringing home the classic 2D side-scrolling action you went nuts for in the arcades. This collection has multiple characters and character variations found throughout the series.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 15 years later and better then ever!, August 31, 2004

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Ramsis Lion "ramsislion" (Long Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Anyone that remembers the Street Fighter II series in any way will most definitely want to get this game. A true homage and celebration of what was and is a classic of fighting games.

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, takes all of the previous Street Fighter II games (Street Fighter II: The Wolrd Warriors, Super Street Fighter II: The new Challengers, Hyper Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II: Championship Edition and Street Fighter II Turbo) and gives you the option of match up with any of the versions of the fighters against another version of said fighters. For example you can have the regular Street Fighter II Ken who's uppercuts didn't cause a firetrail vs. the Hyper Street Fighter II Ken who can do massive combos and fire upper cuts. It's a great little gimic to see how well an older version of a character can do against the later games characters. Not to mention it's a great way to get all the games in one action packed filled Street Fighter disk.

If that wasn't enough, this also includes Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. Which was the third edition of the long awaited sequal to the Street Fighter II series. It has a great grade system that grades each battle you have at the end, parry system and a cool soundtrack. Not to mention characters old and new with some fine graphics. After you get done fooling with old school in SF II, you will be ready to jump into the next level with this game. Never before released on any system besides the now default Dreamcast, so this game alone makes it more then worth it and the fact that you are getting SF II Anniversary edition even more so.

The only drawbacks I could find so far is that the game, even SF III, is a bit dated by some of today's standards. But I think the true appeal of the game is it's nostalgic edge as well as the fact that it's just fun to beat up either the computer or a friend by mastering your favorite character. All the characters have cool endings too making it even more worth while getting through the game. Bottom line, the price is more then worth it and the game is fun whether you were a fan 10 years ago or never played any of the SF games before. It is a purchase you won't be sorry to make.

SHO-RYU-KEN!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would've been better if online, September 10, 2004

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TwistaG "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore" (Moncks Corner,SC) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Over the past eight years, Capcom's fighting games have gone from making significant changes (Street Fighter 3, X-Men vs. Street Fighter) to moderate changes (Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2) to now barely any changes at all. Yes, with Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, Capcom has found a way to release a new Street Fighter game with practically no effort whatsoever. And we'd be upset if the package wasn't so much fun.
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection is basically two games on one disc: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition. The trick is that while "Hyper Street Fighter 2" sounds like a game you've played before, the version in this package lets you choose any character from any Street Fighter 2 game up to Super Turbo. It answers the dream match up questions of who would win in a fight between Guile from the original Street Fighter 2 and Blanka from Super Street Fighter 2. It can be a lot of fun exploring different match-ups and sorting out which versions of each character you prefer. You'll spend hours reminding yourself of what the differences are. An obvious issue with throwing all these characters together is whether they will be balanced -- is it fair to put Akuma from Super Turbo up against Ryu from the original SF2? The game certainly is not perfect in this respect; you can be competitive with the characters from the older games if you know what you're doing, but we wouldn't recommend the game for tournament play. For those not hardcore enough to care about details such as character balance, it may also be disappointing to see that most of the different versions of the characters are very similar. It's not like you get to put a Street Fighter Alpha character up against a character from the Versus series -- all the different versions look more or less the same, so the appeal on a super casual level is minimal. But the thing about Street Fighter is there are tons of players out there that are more than 'casual' fans. There's a built-in player base that can appreciate subtle differences between different character versions, and for those of you who don't have to refer to the instruction booklet, this is a great title to mess around with. Including all these fighters is a nice way to let players relive memories without having to pick a favorite game from that era, since they're all packaged together into one game. If you're more of a Street Fighter 3 player, you can ignore HSF2: The Anniversary Edition and go straight into 3rd Strike, a port of the best game in the Street Fighter 3 series. If you've played the game before in arcades or on Dreamcast, it's pretty much the same thing here: lots of weird characters, great animation, a fun-to-use but difficult-to-master parry system, and the return of Chun-Li. It's a shame that neither game is playable online, since both would be prime candidates to play against friends over the 'net. To help make up for it, Capcom tossed in Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie for players to watch (though why you have to search the options in HSF2: The Anniversary Edition to find it is beyond us). So really, while every part of this package is well made and fun, there's not much new -- no online to spice things up, no new graphical upgrades, and a movie that's many years old. But we suppose that's the point -- this is a way to celebrate the series being around for 15 years, and at that, Anniversary Collection does a good job.

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm really looking forward to this game, July 12, 2004

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L. Bravim - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Video Game)

SFAC features Hyper Street Fighter 2 from Japan (which is a compalation of all previous SF 2 games) as well as a new game. All versions of characters from every previous SF 2 game (SF 2, Turbo, Special Champion Edition, Super SF 2, and Super SF 2 Turbo) are playable. There is also "Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie" within the game. This game is being released on PS 2 and XBox (hopefully GC as well) and is a must-have for 2-D fighting game fans, esp. Street Fighter 2. I first played this game more than 10 yrs. ago, and I still love it! SFAC has gotten very good reviews from GameSpot and other sites.

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