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Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers

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Hello, Fighting Game Fans and Old School Heads alike.

So, y'all wanna know where it all started... Today there would be no Mortal Kombat, no Killer Instinkt, no Tekken, no Virtua Fighter, no Soul Calibur/Soul Blade, no Marvel Vs Capcom, no Street Fighter ALPHA, no Super Smash Brothers, no actual Fighting Games -period- without Street Fighter 2. And "SUPER" Street Fighter 2 is, hands down, the best iteration of the series.
SSF2 features the best visuals, most characters (16 in all) and most dynamic gameplay. Literally, EVERY character in the game was worth experimenting with. All of them had their own specicific move-set with "special" attacks to juice things up.
There were 3 versions of this classic: the arcade version, SNES version and Sega Genisis version. While the arcade version exposed fans to SSF2, most found themselves purchasing the SNES and Genisis versions to enjoy at home. And these puppies did NOT disappoint. The graphics (visuals) of both console versions was very close to their arcade counter-part. The gameplay of all 3 versions was identical. The exception of the Genisis version was requiring the 6-button controller: an optional game pad for the Sega Genisis, that really helped with Fighting games. The SNES version was FLAWLESS right out of the box.
If you own an Old School/Retro 16-Bit console, do yourself a favor and GET SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2!

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, released for the SNES in 1994, is the sequel to SF II Turbo: Hyper Fighting. After the success of the previous SF2 games, Capcom wasn't about to release Street Fighter III yet. Instead it tweaked the cast of the previous games a bit, gave them a variety of new coloured outfits and introduced four new fighters: Cammy (a British intelligence officer), T. Hawk (a massive red Indian), Fei Long (a Bruce Lee look and act-alike, probably the answer to Mortal Kombat's Liu Kang...) and Dee Jay (a crazy jamaican full-contact fighter). Considering all this, the game has to be even better than SF2 Turbo, right? That's not quite the case though...

I understand that the arcade game changed the way it sounds from its predecessors by using new "Q sound" technology. Probably due to this, the sound effects and music quality in the SNES conversion is quite poor. I never realised that audio actually plays an important part in fighting games till I played this...especially since I played SF2 Turbo before. The energetic, deep voice of the announcer of Turbo is gone. It is replaced by a boring and clumsy-sounding voice. It is great that the characters sound different from each other this time around, but some character voices are pretty lame, especially the K.O. sounds made by M.Bison (Vega in Japan) and Guile. And don't even get me started on the "Sonic Boom" voice of Guile or the "Tiger Uppercut" voice of Sagat or the "Hadoken" voice of Ken. Very lame, indeed. The background music is okay, but lacks the quality of Turbo by a wide margin.

Then to the graphics. Again, must be the fact that the "Ryu Intro" took up too much memory. The visuals are dull and are almost Sega Genesis quality. However the new backgrounds are pretty decent to look at. Moving onto the gameplay. The ability to play in turbo speed is gone. It's back to three-star speed again. Playing it in anything less than that is a horrible experience. The original cast have their moves either improved or weakened or new moves gained. For example, Ken has gained a flaming dragon punch, whereas Ryu's hurricane kick is severely weakened. Guile has lost the ability to connect twice with his flash kick, as has Sagat with his close-up fierce kick. Among the new characters, Fei Long and Cammy are interesting, Dee Jay is awkward but powerful and T. Hawk is a clumsy, Zangief-ish wrestler with some style. To freshen things up there are various modes in the game, including super battle, versus battle, group battle, tournament and time challenge, plus new endings for some of the original cast.

Overall it seems Super SF2 is quite a solid game which will satisfy Street Fighter fans without a doubt, and is more enjoyable than many of the other SNES fighting games, but lacks the long-lasting appeal of its predecessors due to the average visual and audio quality.

In 1994, Nintendo and Sega were knee deep into the 16-bit battle so it was common for fans of both systems to argue which one was superior. As developers made sure that certain titles were released for both systems, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers was one of those titles. It was released in 1994 and was based on the fan favorite arcade game of the same name. While Street Fighter and fighting games in general fans debated on who had the best version, there was no doubt that it was a good port that came very close to mimicking the arcade game. No matter which system you had, gamers everywhere rejoiced and they had good reason.

Most people know the drill already about Super Street Fighter II: you pick one of out 16 fighters, battle 12 others fighters including the bosses to win the game and score as many points as possible. On top of the main mode, Capcom added 2 player VS mode, group battle mode and tournament mode to round out the complete package. These extra modes further the replay value of this game so anyone can get into it.

The PROS: While there are a few things here and there that were omitted so the game can fit onto the cartridge, this game is a near perfect port. The graphics are good enough, the music sounds decent and the controls are spot on. You can set the difficulty level from 0 to 10 stars so it can be super easy to super hard to play. All of the fighters and their stages have made it in and with 2 player support, you can have a friend join in anything for a match. The extra modes are great to get other people around as the controller gets passed around so everyone gets his/her turn to play.

The CONS: As stated already, there were some things omitted. Missing frames of animation, certain announcements were cut, bonus stages are from the previous SNES Street Fighter games and the sound effects are not as clear compared to the arcade game. But that is to be expected and it's just minor flaws considering they got everything else.

It was a great time to be into fighting games. Street Fighter fans couldn't get enough of it and played Super Street Fighter II in the comfort of their homes. If you're not into fighting games, then you won't want to check this out. But if you like fighting games, you'll want to get this. There are two ways to do this: you can do a quick search online to find a copy or download this game to the Wii from the Virtual Console Service for 800 points ($8.00 US)

Street Fighter 2 is without a doubt one the best fighting games to ever see the light of day, and Super Street Fighter 2 is no exception. The game features a variety of new and old playable characters including the "super" fighters from the original, and new additions like T-Hawk and Fei Long. The fighting system has improved, making the game run a lot smoother and quicker than before. This is an excellent fighter and needs to belong on the shelf of every fighting game fan out there. It's pure genius. This game is: "Really Good."

I don't know if there's any reason to get the SNES version now that Super Street Fighter II has been included in so many newer compilation sets, but in its heyday this was arguably the best fighting game you could own on 16-bit consoles. Sure Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Street Fighter Alpha 2 eventually offered more playable characters, but those ports were visibly incomplete and hampered by limited cartridge space. With Super Street Fighter II, you'd be hard-pressed to tell anything was missing or changed if you hadn't played the arcade original.

So we have a mixture of 16 new and returning fighters, with the old ones slightly tweaked in typical Capcom fashion. Levels and music have also been slightly remixed, and you get redrawn character sprites for the versus screen. There are also bonus tournament, battle, and time challenge modes which would become a staple in all fighting games. The only things missing are the faster turbo mode of the previous installment and Akuma, who wasn't included until the next iteration of the game.

A very meaty and worthwhile fighting game. This is a required play for fans of the genre, whether on the SNES or newer editions.

Capcom had a mega huge hit on there hand when they made SF2. Harldy anyone even knew what Fighting Street was, nor how it got a seaqul. But SF2 was an over night smash back in 1992,1993 or so.. I loved the original, I loved hyper edition, but this Super edition was by far my favorite. But this was the last interest I had with Street Fighter games. There was far too many versions coming out, and I didnt like the animie graphics. But still to this day this is my fav. SF game in the world. Introducing 4 new charactors, Cammy, Dee Jay, Fei Long and Thunder Hawk. With new an improved sound and graphics and a few new moves. Re drawn backgrounds and cool options. The only thing that was missing was Vega no longer lept on to the cage in his stage, he just bounced of the wall, and a couple of the moves where changed slightly, like Chun Li's blue fart ball was changed into a back flip bubble, and executed differently, and the airiel moves didnt span accross the screen anymore, unless you jumped in that direction.. but it still didnt take away the hours of fun beating the #!@% out of your friends and fire blalling your way to victory.

This game has since been revived on the Gameboy advance. They have pretty much used the SSF2Turbo edition, that has combos and sort of finisher/special move things. But it's still as good as this version because it pretty much IS still this version! ONE of the originals, and the best!!!!

I love this version of Street Fighter II better than the earlier ones beacuse it's faster and of course, MORE CHARACTERS!!!
Cammy- She is the best female in the game (And my fave SF character.). She is very fast and she has very stong punches.

Dee Jay- He is my fave male character next to Ken. He's a bit on the slow side, but he's very strong.

Fei Long- He's obviously a cheap clone of Bruce Lee that shoots fire from his feet. I don't like him much.

T. Hawk- He is VERY HARD to fight and he's lame...

Street Fighter II was one of the greatest fighting series of all time and it still is. It was so great that it made the Mortal Kombat series look like a broke franchise (but wait until Midway is done with Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance !). No matter what new and interesting Street Fighter Capcom makes today, including the VS series, no other Street Fighter game would be better than the Street Fighter II series. While things needed to be changed during the year of 1994, Capcom has decided to make yet another addition to their popular SFII franchise. After the successful release of Street Fighter II Turbo for the Super Nintendo, Capcom has released Super Street Fighter II for the Arcade, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis. A lot of fans had agreed that this is a true Street Fighter hit, but a lot of people had noticed some in-game flaws while playing, but we'll get back to that later ! For now, here's the lowdown ! The graphics of the SNES version of Super Street Fighter II looks great and little better than the Genesis version. As always, the animations still retain its old glorified 1992-1993 goodness ! As for the sound, this is where the problem begins. Sure the songs sound perfectly remixed on each stage, but just listen to the voice acting on some of the characters. Some of them sound weird and they don't fit the character at all, but not all of them. Just Guile, Dee Jay, and Sagat (including that annoying announcer). I tried not to pay any attention to the sound, but it's too noticeable. As for the lineup of new and old Street Fighters, the best collection of fighters I've ever seen. You still get classic numbers from the SFII universe like Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, Zangief, Balrog, Sagat, Vega, and M. Bison. Plus some new fighters like Fei Long, Cammy, Dee Jay, and T. Hawk (if you want to know who they are, read my Genesis review of SSFII). And as always, anything bearing the name Street Fighter II, has the best gameplay balance of any 2D fighting game. The controls are slick and easy to master once you've played the SFII series numerous times. No flaws, just pure gameplay perfection. And it's even better than the playability of the Genesis version, considering the fact that the SNES controller had a wide variety of buttons than the Genesis pad. If you've played the previous SFII games, that's the way how the game plays. This may seem like the last Street Fighter II, but actually it isn't. The last of the SFII series was Super Street Fighter II Turbo which released for US arcades, but never for home consoles for some reason. It released on the Dreamcast in Japan somewhere around 2001 as Super Street Fighter II X: Grandmaster Challenge and it also released for the Game Boy Advance as Super Street Fighter II: Turbo Revival. Not to mention, it was featured on the Street Fighter compilation for the PlayStation called "Street Fighter Collection". This was the first Street Fighter to use Super moves, but since it was 1994 or 1995, the super bar can only last for one level. It was better than the early Super Street Fighter II, but it could've been cool if it had released on home consoles on that day. Oh well ! Just as long as it released on specific systems ! Anyways, if you're looking for a Street Fighter game, this is the one to look for ! Even with its flaws, the game itself is fun and long lasting like the other Street Fighter games !

This new Street Fighter is about the same as Street Fighter 2 but with a few differences. Like you can pick how fast the game is played, you can pick from many different characters such as Balrog, M. Bison, Vega, Cammy, Dee-Jay, Sagat,Feilong, an many others. It is alot cooler than the others.

Nice, but irrelevant nowadays!

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