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Palani's Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Street Fighter III: Third Strike) (PS2)
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| [February 10, 2007 01:37:13 AM]
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Street Fighter's greatest strength has always been in its versus play. Arcade mode will keep a player entertained for only a limited amount of time and its in versus mode that the true challenge lies. So with two controllers and a couple of hours I fought cesanders and jkim for 'winner stays on' in versus mode.
Having thoroughly explored the gameplay I can safely say that this SF3 offers a very rock paper scissors style. With all the fights taking place in 2D countering your opponents is all the more important (sidestepping is not an option). To every attack there are three options: a block, parry or a faster attack. Therefore there is very much an emergent element with knowledge and experience accumulated from previous fights. Knowing what to do when an opponent does a certain move, and which attacks of your character work (and which don't) for any given situation is key in versus mode. The reward from beating your opponent or successfully performing an ambitious combination kept us playing for ages. This combined with the short time (90 seconds on average) for a versus fight meant the game was often played between going to lectures or doing homework (a very pick up and play style). Its possible that this is now the most played game in the appartment due to the personal drive we experience to beat each other and improve.
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| [February 10, 2007 01:17:45 AM]
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I have been playing the street fighter series for a number of years, and although I have played a number of alternative fighters Street Fighter 2 was one of the first games I ever played. Loading up anniversary collection I steered clear of Street Fighter 2 eager to play the latest game in the series.
From the start game modes are instantly familiar with an arcade, versus mode, and training. Upon selecting the arcade mode I have to say I was slightly dissapointed with the selection of characters. Now as I mentioned earlier I've played street fighter for a number of years and although characters are added to the series they are never replaced. Core characters such as Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, and Akuma are present but the rest of the playable characters are completely new. It was of course nice to see a little innovation in creating new characters but I have to say that I would have prefered the original characters such as Bison to be present.
The gameplay is quite posibly the best yet and I quickly forgot any previous criticisms (rather unhelpful for righting this blog). Character animations involve alot more sprites giving a much faster and smoother appearence to the characters movements. The backgrounds aswell have been given suitable attention with a rich multilayering of animations and even various objects (such as soda cans) which bounce in response to a character hitting the ground hard.
Moves are instantly familiar with the quarter turns and charging moves of Capcom games so I was competitive against the AI opponent from the start. A new and very much welcome innovation is a parry system. This opens up the possibility of reversing an opponents combo as you get a slight time advantage with this aggressive blocking technique. Pressing fowards to initiate a parry makes it extremely risky since blocking is performed by holding the opposite direction. A miss timed parry will leave your guard open for some serious punishment.
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Palani's Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Street Fighter III: Third Strike) (PS2)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 7 February, 2007
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