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Archived Information

To find the most up to date news about Street Fighter 4, check out the front page of EventHubs.com.

Street Fighter 4 has been confirmed for the XBox 360, PS3 and PC, although there is no release date at the moment. It has also been stated it will be making its way to arcades, as expected.

There's a new confirmed character named Seth who's said to resemble Gill and Urien from Street Fighter 3, but not much else is currently known about him. Also Fei Long and Dan will be making return appearances.

M. Bison and Vega will be returning in Street Fighter 4. Capcom uploaded a bunch a nice screen shots to their Flickr page.

This video shows footage of Rufus and El Furte in action. Rufus is one of the more... odd characters seen in a Street Fighter game.

To see some low quality screen shots of Rufus, click here.

El Fuerte is a new confirmed character for Street Fighter 4. He's another grappler/wrestler type character, which is interesting because the game already has Abel and Zangief.

Sagat and Balrog will be appearing in Street Fighter 4. To check video of the fighters in action, just click their names.

Abel is another new character for Street Fighter 4.

It has been confirmed that the original eight Street Fighter 2 characters will all be making another appearance in the latest installment.

The word around the net claims that SF4 is 50% complete, which would put its release date some time this summer.

Screen shots

There's new shots of the original SF2 characters in SF4 up on this page.

The Street Fighter blog posted some scans from a foreign magazine that claims Akuma is confirmed for the upcoming game, along with a brand new character called the Crimson Viper.

There's also the old shots of Ryu and Ken fighting here.

Previews

• Street Fighter IV Hands-On From AOU 2008 on Gamespot.com
• 'Street Fighter IV' focuses on strategy, nostalgia on CNet.com
• Hands On: Street Fighter IV part 1 from IGN.com
• Hands On: Street Fighter IV part 2 from IGN.com
• Quick Street Fighter IV Hands-on Impressions on Kotaku.com

Videos

• Ken vs. Chun Li
• E. Honda vs. Guile
• Guile vs. Zangief
• C. Viper vs. Ryu
• Street Fighter IV 'Characters' trailer
• Chun-li vs. Viper
• Viper vs. Abel
• Ryu vs Honda

A First Look at Street Fighter 4 part 1 and part 2 have surfaced on YouTube. It has new gameplay footage of Ryu and Ken fighting and there's a bit of new information in these videos plus, including...

• Interviews from members of the team working on SF4.
• Clearer details about how the new gameplay systems work, including the 'Revenge' and 'Saving' systems.
• Capcom grasps how important online play is to the Western audience and they're adding in features to help satisfy that need.

Also there's a gameplay video on YouTube which shows Ryu and Ken fighting on Chun-Li's stage. A quick shout out to Martin S. for the news tip.

Gameplay details

• Focus Attacks: This combines both defense and offense in one powerful package. Your character will enter a special preparation pose, which is safe from some attacks, and then they'll unleash a powerful attack.
• Ultra combos: Basically enhanced super combos.
• Traditional Street Fighter: The game will play like other 2-D fighting games.
• Saving attack: The, "replacement," for the SF3 parrying system is called a Saving attack and it can be done by pressing both medium attack buttons at the same time.
• Street Fighter IV will have online play.
• Throwing is done by pressing both light attacks.
• Personal actions (taunts) are executed by pressing both hard attacks.
• Quick wakeup is done by holding down on the joystick when you're just about to hit the ground.
• There are EX moves executed like in SF3 by pressing two punch or two kicks after doing the respective move for the motion.

Additional details

• The standard 6-button layout will return.
• Street Fighter IV will take place some time between Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Street Fighter III
• The game will run at 60 frames per second
• One more new female character will be announced

Confirmed characters

Returning
Ryu
Ken
E. Honda
Blanka
Zangief
Dhalsim
Guile
Chun Li
Sagat
Balrog
M. Bison
Vega
Fei Long
Dan

New
Crimson Viper
Abel
El Fuerte
Rufus
Seth

Rumored
Akuma
Gouken (Ken and Ryu's master)