Ultra Street Fighter IV

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Street Fighter series is an eternal monument of the action fighting game genre. With the gameplay focused on character control skills, with a list of gladiators characterized by their almost absolute balance, Street Fighter is the name that no one enters the game world does not know.

After the success of the fourth version of the series, Street Fighter IV, Capcom continued to win over when launching a series of expanded versions next to the game. Ultra Street Fighter IV is the latest version, considered the most perfect as well as the most interesting of the versions of Street Fighter IV from 2008 up to now.

In almost all fighting games, the balance between the characters is always focused on by the player and is the main factor in the balanced match between players. Ultra Street Fighter IV was born based on the above platform. What the final version of the Street Fighter IV series, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012, has failed to match, with the promise of a balanced gameplay system.

Providing a balanced style of play, based on reviews from loyal fans of the series, is not easy. In the present time, game studios build their games more commercially and the opinions of gamers are often forgotten.

Meanwhile, Ultra Street Fighter IV goes against this, as it is researched and developed by Capcom based on input from players and professional gamers.

The core gameplay of Ultra Street Fighter IV is simply light punches, heavy punches, light kicks, heavy kicks, Focus attacks, wrestling attacks, Ultra moves, etc. similar to the Street Fighter II or Street Fighter IV versions. before, however now they focus on the player, who controls the character rather than on the character himself.

Each character has different strengths – weaknesses. You can use a character that is considered “weak” in the game to defeat the “boss” character more if you understand the character you are controlling, know how to exploit them thoroughly.

For that reason, it is not rare that Street Fighter players just need to choose a gladiator who can still spread across the continental arenas. This element, of course, has been present in earlier versions, now fully exploited in Ultra Street Fighter IV.

44 characters – 44 styles of play!

There are 44 characters you can choose from in Ultra Street Fighter IV, and each character has its personality as well as a distinct style of fighting, clearly shown from their looks to their attacks.

This diverse and rich character system gives Ultra Street Fighter IV a little taste of the game … “strategy”. When each character can counter or support each other. It will not be rare that the character you choose is strong, suitable for your fighting style, but … “exhausted” when facing another character.

Therefore, the player choosing his character must also have very careful thought.

You can not “practice” all 44 characters present in the game, but at least you must know how to master the control of 2-3 key characters.

Besides, you must also understand the abilities of the characters in Ultra Street Fighter IV when they have to confront… 44 fighting styles of the other 44 characters.

That is not to mention each player, they have different fighting styles for their characters. How can they be overcome and overcome?

This is an interesting question that many Street Fighter IV players have been looking for over the years.

It is also a key factor that makes the beauty of Ultra Street Fighter IV, especially when the game has the appearance of new characters, requiring the player to “learn” all of the previous game knowledge of the game surname.

Ultra Street Fighter IV gives players three new mechanics including Red Focus Attack, Delay Wake-Up, and Ultra Combo Double. They open up many elements of strategy, as well as increase the depth of the game’s gameplay.

All three of these mechanisms are the foundation to create a balance between the characters as well as the beginning of the series of beautiful and novel combos of the characters in the game.

“Red Focus Attack” is the foundation for the new combo series. This is a variation of the “Focus Attack” feature, a key factor in the success of Street Fighter IV as well as the characteristic of the game. With the Red Focus Attack, the character can block “indefinite” attacks and counterattacks with fatal blows.

Meanwhile, “Delay Wake-Up” is more of a strategic element, aimed at challenging opponents, traps or simply avoiding “difficult” attacks, which have been set by the opponent.

“Ultra Combo Double” simply allows a character to use his two Ultra Combo moves in battle. Of course, depending on the gladiator you choose, their damage will be reduced from 25% to 40%.

However, these mechanisms take a lot of time to get used to and execute in real combat because they require the player’s ingenuity and the ability to judge in the match.

If you come to Ultra Street Fighter IV just out of curiosity about its scenario, you will definitely clear the game after a few hours of searching, because in fact the plot of this fighting game series from the past to present still belongs to the type “innocuous”.

Most of what Capcom wants to convey to players in the game is just lines, short films about rivals, as well as normal angles in the lives of those characters rather than building a epic story about a commander who wants to dominate the world through martial arts, or about a guy “lonely cowboy traveling long distances from the countryside” wishes to become stronger.

The scenario of Ultra Street Fighter IV is almost unchanged from the previous versions, but only about introducing new characters.

Another unfortunate thing about Ultra Street Fighter IV is that besides the new characters, the new balanced feature, Ultra Street Fighter IV is just an expanded version no more, no less than Street Fighter IV 6 years ago.

If we compare the development from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike to Street Fighter IV to a revolution in graphics, style, and gameplay, the Ultra Street Fighter IV part only has an outer disc cover.

In addition to the new characters (actually also from the transformed Street Fighter x Tekken game), almost all new changes of Capcom in this version just stop at editing this character, adding weak factor for the other character.

These changes may please fans of the series from Street Fighter IV so far, rather than attracting new players. Not only that, the price paid for an expanded version of an old game series from 2008 up to now seems a bit “high” compared to the current game market. Hopefully, Capcom will change this in the future.

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