Score 9.5 Simply put, SSF4 AE, is the best fighting game ever made.

User Rating: 9.5 | Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition X360
By ddr | Review Date:
SSF4 AE, is the greatest competitive game ever made. Even more so than the Starcraft series, SSF4 AE took time tested mechanics (approachable gameplay, simple combos, great varied and balanced cast of characters) and perfected to an extent never seen before. A quick look at the finalists of EVO 2011 proves this : the top 10 was composed of an extremely varied number of characters: Fei-Long, Seth, C. Viper, Yun, Ryu, Akuma etc. Any character can be mastered and come out the winner, no matter how low he is in tier rankings.

Approaching the game seems daunting, but the enormous amount of data that can be found on the internet, make this easier than ever : websites like eventhubs, replays on youtube are all part of the great learning experience it takes to master the game. The tactical opportunities are endless. A high-level match-up can be compared to a game of chess without shame.

Anyone with the slightest interest in heart-pounding competition should be playing this game right now, very few things can compare to the fear of losing a 100pp when noob plays better than expected, or of crushing a highly experienced player with a low tier character.

The simpleness of the leaderboards, and the in-game information given on the two players engaged in a match make the experience more satisfying than ever. At any time you know your place on the global leaderboards, whether it be your character rankings (BPs) or your ranking overall (PPs)


Now if only they stopped nerfing Akuma... damn 2012 update and the loss of the overhead demon palm!

score : 9.5 out of 10

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