The New World Warriors
Street Fighter 6 is an incredibly feature-rich fighting game. Capcom has created a game that’s a spectacularly feature-rich fighting game. With a new art style, an ambitious Battle Hub, training tools, and an extensive roster of fighters, Street Fighter 6 takes many swings in many different directions. The gameplay of every Street Fighter game since Street Fighter 2 has been defined by a unique mechanic. Street Fighter 3 had parries, 4 had focus attacks, 5 had the V-System, and now Street Fighter 6 has the Drive System.
Gonna Take You For a Ride
Street Fighter: The Complete Playlist
- Street Fighter
- Fighting Street
- Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight
- Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
- Street Fighter II Turbo
- Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
- Street Fighter II [LCD]
- Street Fighter II Pinball
- Super Street Fighter II: The Tournament Battle
- Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
World Tour is an ambitious single-player mode that’s a big step up from Street Fighter 5’s attempt at a cinematic story mode. It’s an RPG that allows you to take a created character into the world of Street Fighter, interacting with the playable roster by becoming their disciple and learning their moves. You can also level up, equip gear, and select skills. The story of World Tour is unbelievably dull though, with paper-thin characters, predictable plot twists, and a mute protagonist.
I Got Next
Another reason why you might want to go through World Tour mode is that you’re able to take your character and all the gear they’ve earned into the online Battle Hub. It’s a social space where you queue into both ranked and unranked matchmaking, or pull up on a cabinet much like you would in a local arcade and await challengers. There’s a section of the hub where you can play a rotating selection of classic Capcom games like Final Fight and Street Fighter 2; another section where you can play Extreme Battles with party-like rule sets and gimmicks; a store where you can purchase more customizable clothes for your avatar with in-game currency; and you can even pit your created character against others in Avatar Battles.
The Little Things
What really pushes Street Fighter 6 over the edge is how it completely nails virtually everything outside of its main modes that you could ask for in a fighting game. Based on my experience playing pre-launch and in all three betas, including the open beta, its netcode is excellent; it’s got the best training mode I’ve ever seen in a fighting game, complete with frame data and cancel window data; it’s got extremely helpful character guides that make it very easy to learn a new character from scratch; combo trials that teach you practical combos for a variety of situations; load times are extremely quick and rematches are nearly instantaneous; you can search for replays with a ton of different filters to help you learn matchups; there’s crossplay across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC; you can create and join clubs; and so on.
Which Newcomer to Street Fighter 6 Are You Most Excited About?
- Jamie
- Kimberly
- Lily
- Manon
- JP
- Marisa
What DLC Character Are You Most Excited About?
- Rashid
- Ed
- A.K.I
- Akuma
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