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A two-player Bluetooth mode is available for those who want to fight their friends in the same room the original iPod touch does not include this two-player mode, but other iPods and iPhones with Bluetooth hardware do. Performance suffers only a little on original iPhone and iPod touch hardware, with a very slightly lower in-game frame rate, and modestly longer loading times. Charge moves, special moves, and combos work, though obviously not responsively enough to replace a proper controller, and diagonal jumping attacks in particular feel imprecise and not quite right-even on the speedy iPhone 3GS, which should offer a very smooth experience. The controls overlap the bottom half of the screen, and significantly so, but can be made transparent and thereby much less intrusive via a simple settings menu. To Capcom’s credit, this port of SFIV is a good enough fighting game that casual players will be able to enjoy it, but serious players will be less than completely impressed. It mostly made us wonder whether we should have just saved our money for the inevitable iPhone followup. So why does the game need 200MB of storage space? It includes two movies, one the original ink-washed SFIV introduction, and the other a very limited and frankly somewhat confusing promotion for the upcoming sequel Super Street Fighter IV, featuring pre-rendered particle effect animation no platform, in-game footage, or release date is given. Surprisingly, a grab and vertical throw from the wrestler Abel just pitches his opponent off-screen rather than tracking the move with camera adjustment, a sign that Capcom either didn’t want to fully zoom out of the background, or adjust the character animation physics to accommodate the new 2-D perspective.

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The levels are roughly twice the height and three times the width of the iPhone’s screen, enabling frequent horizontal scrolling and limited zooming-out, plus the occasional vertical bounce upwards with jumping attacks.

In addition to preserving some of the music and most of the sound effects from the console game-basically, enough of the good stuff, and minus the awful character selection vocal track-Capcom includes six backgrounds, all of which are completely flat and lacking in parallax layering or animation only the floors move, and then, modestly. For those who may be unfamiliar with the series, the fun is in learning the different kicks, punches, and special attacks each character possesses Dhalsim has arms that stretch across the screen, Abel is most deadly up close, and virtually everyone has at least one supernatural projectile attack complete with flames or mystical energy. Unleash an Ultra and you’re treated to a 3-D close-up animation of your character powering up the attack, trimmed only a little from the original game, and every other special move from fireballs and dragon punches to yoga flames, electric shocks, and psycho crushers remains intact. Bison and new SFIV fighter Abel all appear, with most of their key moves, whittled down to a virtual joystick and four-button controller plus an optional auto Ultra Combo activation button-tap the meter to activate it. Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Guile, Dhalsim, Blanka, M.

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Though the game has a whopping 200-Megabyte footprint, the storylines, explanatory anime movies, and plenty of other in-game AV content have been dumped, too consequently, though this port feels more like an overambitious Nintendo DS title than a good or great Sony PlayStation Portable game, preserving just enough of the essence of Street Fighter IV to be a step beyond what gamers would have expected from a translation of the older Street Fighter II.īut before dismissing the iPhone version of Street Fighter IV as a complete loss, consider what’s been kept. Serious fans of the world-famous franchise might find it more appropriate to call this game Street Fighter 2.5, as the translation does away with virtually all of the major innovations Street Fighter IV brought to the series: 3-D character and background art has been flattened into 2-D, there are only eight characters from the console game-all but one of them taken from Street Fighter II-and the gameplay has been dumbed down somewhat given the continued lack of a proper controller for Apple’s devices.

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Yet here we are today, playing the final-well, maybe?-version of Street Fighter IV on the iPhone, and though Capcom has come nowhere near knocking this particular ball out of the park, it has laid the groundwork for what could eventually become a very solid series of fighting game ports to the App Store.