Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers | |
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Developer(s) | Capcom |
Publisher(s) | Capcom |
Director(s) | Toshiyuki Yamamoto |
Producer(s) | Yoshinori Ono |
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Series | Street Fighter |
Platform(s) | Nintendo Switch |
Release | 26 May 2017 |
Genre(s) | Fighting |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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Metacritic | 66/100 |
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Publication | Score |
Destructoid | 7/10 |
EGM | 65% |
Game Informer | 7/10 |
Game Revolution | |
IGN | 75% |
Nintendo Life | 6/10 |
Polygon | 6/10 |
Metro | 5/10 |
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers is a fighting game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Switch video game console, which released worldwide on 26 May 2017. It is an updated version of 1994's Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The game features two graphical styles—classic pixel art and updated high-definition art. New gameplay mechanics and modes were also introduced, with minor changes being made to the game's balance.
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers is an updated version of the 1991 fighting game Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. Gameplay is based on the Super Street Fighter II Turbo iteration of Street Fighter II, however Ultra Street Fighter II introduces new mechanics like grapple breaks and re-tunes some aspects of the game's balance.Combo timing has also been adjusted from the original games.
The game is playable in two styles on both graphic and sound settings: the "Classic" graphic mode featuring pixel art graphics of the original game which is played in 4:3 aspect ratio, which the "New Generation" graphic mode featuring the updated high definition graphics of 2008's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and is played in 16:9 widescreen. In the classic sound style, the game uses the original arcade soundtrack and voice-acting, while in the updated new generation sound style uses includes newly remixed music and the characters' Japanese voices from the Street Fighter IV series. The game supports all control options on the Nintendo Switch console, including play with a single Joy-Con controller.
Ultra Street Fighter II has a standard roster of nineteen characters, plus one hidden character. In addition to all seventeen fighters from Super Turbo (including Akuma, who is no longer a hidden character), two characters–Evil Ryu and Violent Ken–have been added to the game's roster. Evil Ryu first appeared in the series in 1996's Street Fighter Alpha 2. He is a version of Street Fighter protagonist Ryu that has succumbed to the evil power Satsui no Hado. Violent Ken makes his official debut in a Street Fighter game, having previously only appeared in the crossover fighting game SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos. He is a version of Ken Masters that has been brainwashed by M. Bison and makes use of Bison's Psycho Powers. Further, Shin Akuma is featured as a secret character only selectable in local play through the input of a code on the character select screen.