![]() Gone are focus attacks and one frame links (moves where in order to make them combo you had to press the next button with the accuracy of ONE SIXTIETH OF A SECOND) and instead Street Fighter V is a much more stripped back and - whisper it - ‘easier’ game than the previous. One that is more accessible than the series has ever been before. Everyone, from the pro players who battle it out in the Capcom Pro Tour to the kid who picks the game up for the very first time, is going to be battling from the same, all-new base. All of that knowledge and learning is now being pushed to one side to make way for this fresh start. SF IV characters have been mastered, techniques have been discovered, learned, figured out and seemingly created. Street Fighter V is Capcom pushing the reset button on a community that has grown exponentially during the life of its previous game. All of this stuff that is just a part of competitive gaming in 2016 showed up during Street Fighter IV’s lifespan, when outsiders would likely see it as the latest iteration of some old biff 'em up series that was really hard to get into. It's the game that dug fighting games out of a particularly bleak spot, the game that pushed that genre in terms of quality and what an audience would now expect going forward, and the game that laid the foundations for fighting games to be part of the ever-growing eSports market, but it's also a game that was released before Twitch, before streaming and even before the term eSports. ![]() Street Fighter IV’s release feels like a lifetime ago. He returned with these words of judgement. It's a streamlined entry in the mighty fightin' series, for better and for worse, and we sent fisticuffs expert Andi Hamilton into the fray to see how it all works. With Street Fighter V, Capcom have come close to hitting a reset button marked '1991' when it comes to fighting systems and yet this is the most forward-looking game in the series, with one eye fixed on the world of esports. ![]() With any long-running series, there's a delicate balance between retaining the things that people love and refreshing the decor. ![]()
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