Street Fighter: The Movie

This is NOT the worst game ever created. I've played in arcades much more worse that SFTM...

Graphics: quite good Animation: a little crappy Sound: very bad Playability: good but not as good as other beat'em-ups

It's not the best, neither the worst. Just another one game...

As a Street Fighter fan I decided to try and defend the video game based on an underrated movie. I enjoyed the live-action movie back in 1994 and it carries my general perspective of Street Fighter.

Many people complain about the movie straying from the game's plot, and all the characters were changed. This isn't necessarily true, the game's plot isn't that deep: you, as one of the Street Fighter characters, try to bust a drug lord and his minions. It's a little deeper than the Super Mario Bros. movie's plot (two plumbers trying to save the day), but try making a 90-minute movie out of it.

Same for the movie's views of the characters. Most of them are close enough to the game's characters. The movie did portray Guile, Bison, Chun-Li, Sagat, Ken, Ryu, Cammy, Zangief and Vega correctly (Guile and Chun-Li both still have personal vendettas against Bison, Ken and Ryu have their rivalries with Sagat and Vega, etc). I had no problems with E. Honda, and Blanka and Dhalsim only briefly appear (I personally prefer the 'Charlie mutated into Blanka' story). The only characterization problem the movie had was that a few characters just weren't shown right. Steven E. DeSouza should've just re-cast the actor playing T. Hawk. Plus, Balrog and DeeJay swapped alignments, but that's all. Most of the World Warriors and Grand Master characters ARE correctly depicted, just the New Challengers (exception being Cammy) just needed better casting.

The arcade game, Street Fighter: the Movie, was released around the same time Mortal Kombat 3 was. (I never got to play the arcade game, but I'm willing to bet SF:TM was the better game) It also contained Come Back moves, red Super moves, juggle-me-til-I-die combos, all that good stuff. Playing as Balrog, Bison, Cammy, Chun-Li, Guile, Honda, Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Vega or Zangief, you play to determine the fate of the AN relief worker hostages and the free world. Also included were Capt. Sawada, Akuma and Bison soldier Blade. Hidden characters were palette swapped Bison troopers, like Arkane, F7 and Khyber (I think Blanka was hidden in somewhere, too).

I like the home version of Street Fighter: the Movie, it played like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo with movie graphics. However, Blade was gone, and Akuma was now a hidden character again. At least you now got Blanka and DeeJay back. (Wish they spent a little more time on Blanka's design, though.) One thing I did like was the music, the power of the good or bad guy win music gets me pumped.

All I'm saying is, it might not be the best game ever, but you could do a lot worse. (N64 Superman, anyone?) If Capcom ever does a complication Street Fighter game for a future system, they should release the arcade game for it, to give it a bit more publicity.

Anyone who grew up with Streetfighter when it first came out in the arcade will like this film - if not merely because it is Streetfighter. The whole concept is preposterous, outrageous, ludicrious i say, yet somehow plausible while you are watching it. I cannot think of any other actor who resembles Guile more than Van Damme. Guiles fighting technique in the arcade is very similar to JCVD's as well (roundhouses, flying roundhouses etc). I was a bit disappointed that the movie did not have all the characters, or if it did, they did not use the same fighting moves as in the arcade (i.e. Dhalsim, Ehonda). Streetfighter also heralds one of the pop worlds beauties - Kylie Minogue. She looks pretty cute, but probably should have shown more skin. If she did i probably would have rated this film higher. Other than that it was a bloody good movie.

How does one play as Chun Li(as HERSELF???) I am just saying. It is hard for an actress to play as a character playing as herself. That will somehow tear a giant rift in the time space continuum as we know it. In doing so, the universe will collapse, and then in a feat of miraculousness, explode. After exploding, the pieces will re-merge and then implode from the massive change in gravitation forces. Turning everything back into Chun Li as CHUN LI...not herself. Otherwise we would just go through the whole process, all over again. And nobody likes that. Not even Hugh Hefner. And he likes everything. We think that perhaps if you want Chun Li in your movie, you should just get her to play herself, as opposed to someone playing her, playing someone else. The actor-line for Chun Li shows the actresses name...playing Chun Li(as the actresses name).

This is the worst game ever created. Bad gameplay, crappy animation , and the sound just sucks. The movie sucks, but I rather watch the movie then play this game.