Street Fighter: The Movie

Synopsis

by All Game Guide

Street Fighter comes full circle as Paul DeSouza's Street Fighter: The Movie, starring Jean Claude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue, and Raul Julia, makes its way back gamers in this collaboration between Capcom and Acclaim. This is Street Fighter like you've never seen it, though, with Mortal Kombat-esque digitized characters and full-motion video taken directly from the film. Modes of play include: "Movie Battle," "Street Battle," "Versus Battle," and "Trial Battle."

"Movie Battle" puts players in the role of Van Damme's character Guile in a mode that loosely follows the movie storyline, though the developers added twists in order to justify pitting "good" characters against one another. Players have unlimited continues if they lose a fight, but "Movie Battle" mode ends when the time limit expires. "Street Battle" is a one-player mode that pits one character against each of the other 13 fighters in single-bout matches, while "Versus Battle" is for two-player head-to-head matches, and "Trial Battle" serves as a practice mode.

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by Brad Penniment

The Street Fighter series is possibly among the most celebrated in videogame history. The title first emerged in the Arcades of 1987 alongside many other side-scrolling beat em ups at the time dominating the dispersal of gamer's quarters.

The one-on-one fighting formula of the series however finally came of age in 1991. It is perhaps this release that is known as the greatest Arcade title ever using a "button combination" system that required players to learn each fighters exclusive special moves to be successful.

Many other titles have proceeded, but Street Fighter: The Movie is unique in that it uses digitised visuals drawn across from the movie.

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