Street Fighter IV on the Apple App store Tonight
Gaming isn’t just about PC’s or Consoles, if you are true gamer its part of your everyday life and since almost everyone has a phone then gaming on the phone is just another outlet for the digital disciple.
The iPhone definitely gives gamers a ton of games to soak their teeth into and tonight Street Fight IV becomes one of them. The path of Street Fight IV went like this, in 2008 it hit the arcades in Japan, in 2009 it was ported to the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and tonight in 2010 it will be ported to the iPhone and iPod touch.
How does it look, how does it play? Honestly it looks pretty damn good and one of the reasons is that they only added eight fighters in this release Ryu, Ken, Guile, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, M. Bison and Abel. By adding fewer characters the idea was to have the game run smoothly and let me tell you it does.
The graphics look great, clean, clear and fluid and I couldn’t find any lag or stutter in the animation even during intense battles, but to be fair another reason is because the backgrounds are static, but again the character models and special effects look fantastic so it’s a give and take that I believe works.
The sound is also pretty incredible even coming from the iPhone speakers, the background music and sound effects come in clear and you actually want to keep the music and sound turned on and up.
As for controls, the game plays like most on the iPhone and iPod touch, you have your four buttons (punch, kick, special move, and focus attack) in the right hand corner and your direction pad in the left. The buttons and eight-way directional controls are pretty large and take up a good size of the screen, but it isn’t too bad.
A few more things to mention, first there are three gameplay modes, you can fight against the AI, versus multiplayer, or training modes. A note about multiplayer is it is supported locally only so you will need to be within range of someone else with an iPhone to play against them.
The training mode has a dojo where you can practice your moves with a series of exercises that show you every aspect of fighting within the SFIV world, this is not only so you get use to playing on the phone, but for those who may have never played a Street Fighter game before.
However, for those that have you will find the controls and combo actions are pretty much the same on the iPhone version as your console version. If you need help pulling off combos and specials there is an assist mode that helps you out, but for the old vets and pro’s you can turn it off on the options screen.
Overall Street Fighter IV for the iPhone is definitely worth the $9.99 price tag and if you have friends with iPhones or IPod touches that also purchase the game then the value is even better. Street Fighter IV for the iPhone will be hitting the Apple App store later tonight.
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