I think Capcom made STIV for its fan of followers and not new comers.
The graphics are nice beutiful. I like how detail they are,the stages are beatiful,everything from the characters and areas are just beautiful to look at.Everything is 3D now the characters dont look like hadn drawn anime characters they are fully computer made in 3D. Also the fighting is not really made in 3D,the character look like it but they still fight in 2D its more of a 3D mixed with 2D.
Now the soundtracked wasnt great or its memorable.I didnt really liked it cause all the time I would play SFIV i would pop up a cd.The song I really hated was that opening song at the main menu or at the PRESS START screen. I thought that song was way outta place in this game, I expected some heavy metal song not this pop trash. The song is terrible way outta place. But I dont rate my games over the sountrack and it should not be something that makes you like or dislike the game.
Something that I really like is all the diffrent game modes. Something that I felt previous SF games lacked, but now they added quite a few. Something that I really like was the survival mode.
Okay this might just happen to me or it was something Capcom really needed to double checked. The Controls,they really are unresponsive. I really had to press the buttons on my PS3 controll really hard. I dont know if it was my control,which I think its not cause with other games commands are really responsive.
Okay difficulty. Now all the time I played SF games I felt they were made and meant to be played by hardcore SF who mastered the game,and SFIV is no diffrent. Even on the very easy diffuclty this game can be a pain in the a$$. SFIV was made for its follower legion of fans and i dont think its trying to gather up new ones,matter fact I think its gonna turn them away to other games cause of the diffculty to master the game. Something I expected was this game to be easier to master in todays age when almost everybody is trying to go after casual gamers.But I guess to its hardcore SF fans this game is a masterpiece.
Well I guess SFIV is for all hardcore SF fans who been playing te games.The game is not bad its great its just hard to master. Well if you a newcomer to the SF franchise I guess you can still give SF a try but you gonna be pulling your hair trying to master the moves,other than that SFIV is perfect and it should get a 10.