Street Fighter V Reviews
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.
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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 is a solid base for the new fighting experience from Capcom. Unfortunately, with the missing features and the problematic servers, it feels more like an Early Access game than a full-fledged one that's available for full price. Lots of modes, content, and goodies are promised by Capcom in the future, so, unless you really can't wait, you can pass on the game right now.
Street Fighter V is incredibly accessible, meaning that any player can hop on, get to grips with the controls, and have a great time. Competitive and casual players alike will find a home in Street Fighter V's diverse game modes and multiplayer matches. It's been a while coming, but Capcom's brilliant fighting series has finally returned.
A good follow-up to one of the best fighters in recent memory, with a cast of solid old and new characters, tainted only by being short on content. As new characters and stages are obtainable via in-game currency, it's up to the player whether they want to start slow or wait until the content is there.
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Those interested in Street Fighter 5 should view their purchase as a season pass. At launch, there's the bare minimum amount of content included to enable players to get used to the game's fighting systems, but over the coming months it will grow in features and content to make it a better, more rounded experience, for free
Overall Street Fighter V is extremely playable, responsive and looks great and is a really strong entry in the Street Fighter franchise. The game that has been released today is the one designed for people who want to play online, for those of us who enjoy the stories and challenge modes, there's still some time to wait.
I like it, but I don't love it. I think its best is yet to come, but I know that its best is likely to come with an additional price tag attached to it, at least in some fashion. I think Street Fighter V has the potential to be the best Street Fighter ever. I just don't think it is right now, and I feel that this has a lot to do with the people behind SFV wanting it to be the headline event at EVO 2016 instead of EVO 2017. Nothing more.
All said and done, barebones content, inconsistent online performance, and a dependency on being always online, do Street Fighter V no favours. Despite Capcom's plans to address these issues for free, it begs the question, why even release it in this state in the first place? Make no mistake, there's a good game here, but there isn't enough to it to warrant a purchase right now especially at its current price point. If you're not a hardcore fan, you're better off buying it later, probably for less money, with a lot more features than it has right now.
There's enough online action and learnable stuff here to make Street Fighter V a decent purchase, but you can't sit there and tell me that Capcom couldn't have delayed this until everything was ready in June and benefitted for the greater because of it. There's just no way.
Street Fighter V is a hard game to rate in its current state. Die hard fans will probably be happy with what has shipped but for everyone else the content on offer at launch is rather thin.
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.
Like Ken in his black training shirt, Street Fighter V offers a different fighting experience without losing its soul and essence. If Capcom can fix the frustrating PC issues with the keyboard, this game would truly be impeccable.
Confident, exciting and fresh
At its core pretty much the finest in its genre, if missing some key content that'll be added via updates
Whilst not ready yet, in time SFV will be the best.
An excellent fighting game, wrapped in an incomplete package.
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.
Launch troubles and lack of single player aside (which this score addresses), Street Fighter V is a brilliant fighting game.
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.