Super Street Fighter IV Endless Battle Mode set a new bar in fighting genre

The new Super Street Fighter IV launches today with 10 new characters and additional Ultra moves, bonus stages, online game modes and many more. One particularly notable is the Endless battle mode.

With other friends, you can create a private lobby in Endless Battle mode. This mode lets two of your friends fight each other while others are spectator like live streaming mode with excellent compression. The winners stays and fight the next opponent.

Its a huge upgrade from previous Street Fighter IV where you can only fight 1 on 1. This mode brings your friend together and share experiences which really awesome and eliminate the need to go over to your friends house. If you like the match, you can save the replay for review later.
Capcom, in fact should do this long time ago and in my opinion, every fighting game should employ this mode as a standard from now on. 


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Hakan of Super Street Fighter IV is very weird

To sum up this guy is kinda weird. This is the final character of Super Street Fighter IV. Just watch the clip.
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Rest of Super Street Fighter IV cast

 

 

Although Capcom hasn't release official statement, this screenshot and Famitsu magazine pretty much confirmed the rest of Super Street Fighter IV crew. Already added Adon, Cody, Guy, T Hawk, Dee Jay, and Juri, there will be some love for SFIII fans. Makoto, Ibuki, and Dudley will all feature in this expansion.

With this, total rooster will be nine new characters. Pretty much justifies Super Street Fighter IV won't be a DLC but a full game instead. Only hope that Capcom will not charge the same price as a new full game. 
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Selectable ultras and DLC compability

Here are updates/ rumor on Super Street Fighter IV.
Firstly, Capcom confirmed that they going to add additional one Super move per person. Though Capcom hasn't confirmed, the ultras however is become selectable from beginning of the match ala Street Fighter 3. Based on the screens below you can compare that in the first screen, there is a numeral number 1 on the ultra meter.

Where as in screen 2 below, there is numerical number two on the Ultra meter..

Also new on the news, the customes DLC for Street Fighter IV will work on Super Street Fighter IV. Capcom will release new customes for you to buy also. Unsurprisingly.

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Cody, Guy and Adon confirmed as additional characters in Super Street Fighter IV

Here are the new scans from Famitsu magazine. Adon, Cody, and Guy are returning to Super Street Fighter IV. On the top right of Guy scan page shows that he is blocking a kunai. Could it be Ibuki's kunai from Street Fighter 3? Man, Capcom does love to tease fans..
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New Super Street Fighter 4 stage screenshot

Ok. So this is a new screenshot from Capcom Japan. It deliberately cut off the other half of the screen to not show what character does Chun li get focused attack from.

So based on the background, we see a building that looks like Chrysler building and a statue. The statue resembles Mike Haggar from Final Fight series, the Mayor of Metro City. So it is definitely will be an American type character.

Now some says this could be Rolento, because in the past Rolento has the empire state building in the background.And given the large slash of focus attack, it is highly probably cause Rolento uses a stick weapon.

How about Haggar himself? I think it is unlikely, cause Haggar is never been in the Street Fighter series for a reason. His moves is just more or less the same with Zangief. Having Haggar seems to be redundant, unless of course Capcom reconstruct Haggar completely.

Cody and Guy are the other highest probability. Guy especially has been in all alpha series and quite a popular character. But my biggest bet is that this could be Rolento.

Image source: iplaywinner.com

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Super Street Fighter IV online mode confirmed

Here are confirmation of Super Street Fighter IV new modes from official Super Street Fighter IV official webpage. Hey, they even release a trailer.

1. Endless battle.
This mode lets 8 people to gather in the lobby and challenge each other. The loser will sit out while the next player challenge current winner in the room. Others can spectate and cheers via chat.

2. Team Battle.
This is a battle between two teams (red and blue). You can set up players up to 8 people, and decide who is who on each side and who is going to fight first. Basically it is a KOF style fighting. Others can spectate and chat during match to cheer on their teammate.

3. Replay mode.
You can watch a replay video of previous match battle. You can set a search field on which match you'd like to watch. For example: you can choose to see only matches that contains Ryu.

4. Tournament mode.
Like it says, tournament mode lets you create your own tournament. A bracket will be made, and you can give a custom title to the winner.

So Capcom has answer all the fans calling by putting all these modes. Great job.

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Super Street Fighter IV will have enchanced online play?

This Famitsu magazine scan might not mean anything to you because.. well.. it's in Japanese. And a lot of people may not understand Japanese. Nevertheless, this scans confirms a quite number of enhanced online play mode that is going to be available in the new Street Fighter IV series installment. So anyway here is the summary.

8 Player Support: From what can be seen, Super SF4's online modes will support up to 8 players.
"Endless Battle": Could be a mode for 2 players to play while the rest spectate and comment.
"Team Battle": Its a 2 vs 2 and 4 vs 4 in Super Street Fighter 4. Maybe ala KOF?
"Replay Channel": There will be a channel where players can watch match replays with other players. Voice chat will be enabled so players can discuss replays.

Well this is a great news. I always wanted to be able to watch my friend's battle and comment it live, just like playing in a room. But I'm afraid that lag will take its toll, cause our internet connection here is not so great. Nevertheless its a welcome news for all SF fans.

Source: SRK

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Scans from Famitsu said that Super Street Fighter IV will feature bonus stage

Famitsu released scans for Super Street Fighter IV, and seems that the old school bonus stage is back.
God, how I miss those bonus stages, and the looks of it, we get S class to crush this time.

Source: iplaywinner
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Super Street Fighter IV coming to arcade (Rumor)

Capcom initially planned that Super Street Fighter IV might not be coming to arcades. But after a while seems that Capcom changed his mind. According to Shoryuken.com, it might be coming after all.
Arcade Infinity, a highly respected arcade in Southern California uses its twitter to make a statement that the arcade version is coming. Not only that, it will come before the console version.

"Super Street Fighter 4 upgrade coming to arcades, at least before the console release".

Capcom hasn't said anything about the arcade version, nor it denies not planning making one, especially since fans has been calling out.
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Updates on Super Street Fighter 4 Gameplay

Here are some videos from Youtube on Super Street Fighter 4, showing fight between Deejay and Juri. Juri's fighting style really reminds me of Kim Kaphwan and Jhun Hoon from KoF series and she has a really interesting taunts, and dash when hit. Really good to counter and getaway from corner. And her super can connect while the opponent in mid air, very useful indeed.

 
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Super Street Fighter IV confirmed!!

Capcom confirmed Super Street Fighter IV will release around spring and it will be a stand alone disc.
The sequel will feature additional eight new characters. Three has been announced by Capcom:
- T-Hawk, an Indian fighter which you already known him from Super Street Fighter 2.
- Dee Jay, Jamaican kick boxer from Super Street Fighter 2.
- Juri will be the first korean tae kwan do style fighter in the series.
Other feature worth mentioning:
- Super Street Fighter IV won't be compatible online with Street Fighter IV.
- New Ultra combo for original Street Fighter IV cast.
- Enhanced online play, balancing tweaks, and more
- A bit disappointment to hear that it won't be a DLC cause the change is so extensive. But Capcom promised that the game won't be a full-priced game, and the publisher plans to offer a special bonus to gamers who already own Street Fighter IV.


Source: Gamespot
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