Street Fighter V Reviews
Despite its problems with content, Street Fighter V is the most polished and accessible entry in the franchise.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
In truth, Street Fighter V is a lonely and impersonal game. You can't chat with your opponents, nor can you request a rematch once the initial fight is done. All you can do is take a deep breath and charge back into the endless horde of faceless opponents.
Street Fighter V feels more like an irritatingly incomplete service than a game that cares about its legacy.
Street Fighter V is loaded with meaningful changes and improvements to its namesake's divine infrastructure. As a game—a full-priced package sold under the assumption of a finished product—Street Fighter V is destitute and disappointing. Its value and service will expand and evolve over time, though one has to question the wisdom and motive of releasing Street Fighter V in its present condition.
It seems as though Capcom primarily targeted the hardcore, competitive Street Fighter players, rather than casual fans, like myself. While I'll certainly delve online here and there, I'm not nearly good enough to go up against the hardcore SF players that occupy that space on a daily basis. That's why I was really hoping for some other modes to keep me occupied in the meantime. Sure, Survival is the game's single player bread and butter, but without standard modes like Arcade mode, or even something as basic as a Versus CPU option, it seems like Street Fighter V is seriously lacking in content, for a game that retails at full price, with a promise of more content in the future.
Street Fighter V is the skeleton of a great fighting game
Your opinion on Street Fighter V is going to be completely dependent on what you're looking for. If you're into local competition, this game does a great job of upholding what makes the series great while introducing new mechanics and making a few tweaks to make it more inviting for new players. If you're into getting your opposition online, then you'll still be fine even though you'll experience a delay when finding a match every now and then. A few expected things, like a rematch option, aren't available. If you're a fan of single-player modes, then you're pretty much out of luck. With control options on the PC being rather limited, the game is only good for those who care about competition. For everyone else looking for something closer to what the older games provided, give it a month to see if things improve.
So, so good for the genre-savvy, but beginners be warned: Street Fighter V does nothing to help you grow as a player.
Street Fighter 5 is missing essential elements, but its fighting engine is one of the best around.
Street Fighter V is an unfinished game. The engine present is solid enough, but it could have used much more fleshing out. Like many Capcom releases these days, give this one a few more months (if not years) so the company can iron out the kinks.
Street Fighter V marries fresh concepts and upgraded gameplay with the tried-and-true mechanics the fans have always loved. This, along with the technical achievement in terms of graphics and sound, is what will sell the game. For the veteran fans, there's enough familiarity here for them to say, "yep, this is Street Fighter," but at the same time, they can't complain about a lack of significant upgrades and alterations.
SFV obviously suffers from lack of content and feels like an unfinished product, but its solid fighting engine is all that matters to the fans of the genre.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Street Fighter V legt den bisher schlechtesten Launch des Jahres hin und sollte auch in der aktuellen Fassung eher ausgelassen werden. Hardcore Fans können den Titel zwar noch als gutes Trainingslager bzw. verlängerte Beta benutzen, aber für den Rest heißt es wohl noch bis März bzw. Juni zu warten, bis man ein vollwertiges Spiel mit ausreichend Inhalt für sein Geld bekommt.
Review in German | Read full review
Like "Street Fighter IV" before it, "SFV" will be an ever changing game over the next couple years thanks to downloadable updates, new fighters and added functionality. The core fighting mechanics of the game are an excellent base to start from, but "SFV" could use some additional features to elevate it to the current crop of fighting games.
An almost peerless fighting game experience sadly let down by lack of core features and gameplay modes.
Launch troubles and lack of single player aside (which this score addresses), Street Fighter V is a brilliant fighting game.
In its current state, I cannot recommend you spend $60 on this title. It is honestly not finished by any means. I understand that Capcom has promised many things to come in free updates, but if that is the case, maybe they should have waited until March to release the full game. The online is far too spotty, and the single player content is a joke currently. Don't get me wrong, the game play itself is fantastic.
As the fifth proper entry in one of gaming's biggest franchises, Street Fighter V had a lot to live up to.
It's such a shame that Street Fighter V launched in the state it did; it's impossible to wholeheartedly recommend to everyone as a result. If you're on the fence or a newcomer, you're better off waiting for another update or two for the game to get fully fleshed out. But even right now, beyond all its rough edges and missing modes, Street Fighter V is a tremendous fighting game at the top of its class.