Capcom is certainly not new to the size crossovers, just think of the long-lived and successful sagas vs. Capcom. SNK or Capcom vs. Marvel. With Street Fighter X Tekken, however, the software company Nippon undergoes a work that is unprecedented, mixing the world of Ryu and his friends with the opposite result of Tekken, the popular Namco fighting game dimensional weblog.
The story mode found in Street Fighter Tekken X tries to explain (actually unsuccessfully) why the fighters of both universes make common cause to address an imminent threat, no other than come from outer space: an asteroid is cubic it crashed on Earth, bringing with him a mysterious and wonderful power, obviously evil, the heroes fighters must face together.
As usual, the story mode you simply concatenates clashes in sequence without entering a narrative element, except for the traditional final movie. We are still talking about a fighting game, a genre which the plot has always been a matter of contour, if not a taboo, but minimal creativity and originality would have been welcome, given the view and presence in Street Fighter X Tekken two worlds by the charismatic and highly charged enormous background.
To merge two completely different worlds of play, a one-dimensional and two-dimensional array, the guys at Capcom have taken strong infrastructure play Street Figher IV and we have thrown in the characters in the Tekken series, adapted of course to the two-dimensional combat system of the series carrier. The game has a structure tag (like Tekken Tag Tournament) in which you can choose two characters and switch between them at any time during the meetings. However, unlike other fighting game with the tag system, in Street Fighter X Tekken enough that one of his comrades die to lose the final round, so it will be crucial to work with care and intelligence exchanges.
These can be in simple form through the simultaneous pressing of two keys (who however, discovered the fighter for a few seconds), or accompanied by a combo called Cross Rush or four shots from a special move. Missed the bar for super moves divided into three segments and Member of Parliament using special moves, which can be spectacular ultra combos, special moves, countermoves, or snapshots attacks forever linked to the nature of the title tag as the Cross Arts, Ultra moves performed torque, and Cross Assault, a combined assault in which both team mates are in the field simultaneously, one of two course run from artificial intelligence and therefore not very efficient. According to the power of the art, will empty one, two or three bars at a time.
Other interesting features include the ability to upload your shots simply by holding down the special button on the Mode and Pandora, an unusual feature that can be activated only by sacrificing the character who has a 25% or less of life. In this mode, the remaining fighter team acquires super strength enabling it to perform super moves that can remove 40% of life opponent in one hit. In this super-state can be alone for a few seconds, after which, if not eliminated the other team, you lose the match. Deciding to choose the Pandora Mode, even in extreme situations, could be a voluntary suicide for most of the players of Street Fighter X Tekken, but instead can be a deadly weapon for experts, for which precisely the mode has been designed.
Last but not least, the innovative and original system of gems, a mechanism that allows you to equip your fighter with three powers for a certain period of time (5 or 10 seconds), some increases character skills. The idea was to make every Capcom fighter but potentially different from the others, though certainly very interesting, the buds are less revolutionary than you might think.
Gamepad in hand, immediately breathe a strong hybrid nature. Already after a few minutes of playing anyone, who grew up on bread and barrels virtual who's never seen a fighting game in his life, you will quickly feel comfortable with the controls, the various special moves and combos. At the same time, thanks to special features such as Pandora Gem Mode or System, designed specifically for an expert audience, the play acquires a dimension deeply hardcore.
In terms of content, Street Fighter X Tekken Training includes the classic mode suitable to train and learn new techniques, a robust tutorial for beginners who want to learn from scratch and discover the secrets of the combat system and fun missions in which you have to win series meetings with certain disabilities. Real innovation in this sense is, however, Scramble Mode, playing 2 vs. 2 in which all four contestants are simultaneously on the screen. The mode is fun conceptually, but at the end proves to be very, very chaotic. Being a sort of party game, will definitely be a good pastime of the fleeting nature, but nothing more.
Ultimately, the contents of Street Fighter X Tekken, despite the hybrid nature and the presence of two unlimited licenses, are a bit 'poor and fail to stand out from the crowd, except for the aforementioned Scramble Mode, so funny on paper how little playable. But that will certainly annoy the fans, always in terms of content, is the decision to block certain characters from the roster (twelve to be exact) to make them available only later through DLC. A shot hunchback perpetrated against fans who do not feel entirely honest.
Technically speaking, Tekken X Street Figter performs a graphic characterized by ups and downs. While, in fact, the scenarios are very unconventional and very rich in brilliant easter egg from the immense imaginary universe of Capcom, the other, the attention to detail is understated. All this, however, you soon forget the exceptional fluidity and style cartoon and always fits perfectly both wrestlers Street Fighter than Tekken, which thanks to the lifting two-dimensional graph with colorful cel shading seem truly born again. Excellent and well paced and the soundtrack used good audio sampling.
Street Fighter X Tekken crossover could be the final, a great occasion where two of the largest ever piacchiaduro could reach Olympus, like holding hands. The game is very valuable: the gameplay is solid, suitable for all types of players, interesting news items like Gem System are from series A, but the paucity of content (due in part to the strong policy related to DLC) is a shortcoming that in the long run, will be heard.
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