All hail the season's last episode of the 1up show, in which Seth Killian (along with a surprise appearance from Capcom's marketing intern, Marcos) leads the ZD online investigative team to the super-secret Keystone II underground arcade, while the kids back home chatter on about the unmitigated badassery of Resident Evil 5.
Also in this episode, you will witness (in no particular order): massive potty mouthing, face shoveling, shot drinking, street fighting, arcade homaging, Majini knifing, Noby-Nobying, John Choi-ing, deepthink prognosticating, random Scooter helmet wearing, iPhone navimagating, yelling, paniced shooting, turntable hip-hopery, nightvisioning, roof jumping, Seth K ah-shucks-ing, chainsawing, Focusing (but no parrying!), co-oping, KO-ing, head splatting, Tom Cannon-ing, barrel explosioning, Hokuto no Ken-ing and virtually endless yakkity-yakking. Experience the joy directly on 1up.com!
FINALLY! We’ve been in the lab for months now, tinkering away on both the Street Fighter IV packaging as well as the details for what the faithful will be receiving in the Collector’s Edition version of the game. Apologize for the delay on bringing you the official news, but as you can see, there have been some serious changes made. More after the jump!
First off: we’ve been listening to players for the last two months, collecting feedback on your thoughts and impressions on the SFIV box art, especially after images appeared showing the Japanese version. After collecting data from the Unity boards and comments, as well as from other sites like shoryuken.com and conducting some space-age focus tests with two-way mirrors and laser cats, we had a total re-think on our SFIV packaging. As a result of the studies, we have opted to drop the initial Chun-Li packfront in favor of Street Fighter IV art director Ikeno-san’s amazing Ryu vs Ken illustration. Simple, elegant and instantly recognizable. We think that you’ll agree that this image sums up SFIV in true “a picture is worth a thousand words” style. Shoryureppa!
Secondly: North American deets for the long-awaited Collector’s Edition! We’re not just throwing a craptacular “behind-the-scenes” video and “art book” with less images than you can find on any website into a cheesey tin box. Instead, we’re bringing you a gorgeous package that includes:
The game (duh)
A limited-edition (ie., not sold anywhere else) figurine – Ryu in the PS3 box, C. Viper hotness in the 360 flavor. Decisions, decisions...
Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind: a 65 minute anime movie -- created by Studio 4C -- that sets up the story of SFIV by explaining events post-SFII. BluRay disc in the PS3 box! The Xbox version is a 360 game disc that outputs the movie at 720P, not a DVD.
A mini-strategy guide from Prima, written by the same people doing the full-on guide and illustrated by Udon Comics
CD soundtrack. Rock SFIV stage chunez in your car!
…Plus some secret additional downloadable content that we’re not quite ready to reveal at this point. Look for more announcements soon!
All this wrapped up nicely in a box that features Ikeno-san’s instant classic illustration of Ryu, with images of the other characters on the sides.
You like? All this can be yours for a mere $79.99. As a fan, I'm totally blown away. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these, and I work here!
I've been playing this game every time I've been on the go lately. Much like Puzzle Quest, it's got that "just one more match" quality that makes it very hard to turn off, regardless of what the waitress in the sky is telling me. If'n my fuzzy avatar can't flip lines of tokens with magic attacks while the plane lands, then the terrorists have clearly won.
Miguel from Gamespy stopped by Capcom's offices to chat with Seth about Street Fighter last week, and I made sure to horn in because I am a self-important attention whore. Seth talked extensively about Street Fighter in ways that make me happy to be working at Capcom again, comparing and contrasting play styles between SF3 and SFIV in a way that made so much sense that I totally stole it and repeated it almost verbatim to the guys from FUEL TV a few nights later. Thanks for the lines, Seth!
Just to prove that Seth absolutely knows what he's talking about, here's embarassing video of him almost beating Alex Valle at Super Street Fighter II on the SNES* Super SFII Turbo, most likely the version on Street Fighter Collection.
* Once again, our loyal and accurate community points out that I do not know anything about our games. *sigh*
