In keeping with the Capcom fighter theme we have had going since the first announcement of the new street fighter, I thought I would give you some more info on next weeks release of Super Street Fighter IV. And its tournament mode.
I could hear the sighs of relief going out across the gaming universe as avid Street Fighter fans read the title of this article, and yes, I am somewhat pleased too. The fact that Super Street Fighter IV is now implementing a proper tournament mode makes me very happy indeed. I used to spend hours a night on Soul Caliber IV on its tournament mode so Super Street Fighter IV implementing this mode is right up my street.
I might as well get the bad news out of the way while I am here. This mode will NOT be coming out on the games release next week which is a bit of a bummer, so yes it is going to be a DLC add-on. Lucky you will not have to folk out any cash for it. It’s a free download, yay. You just have to wait till June 15th for it to be released.
Now the bad news is out of the way, let’s get onto the good news and what this awesome mode has to offer we are looking at an online tournament mode that will let groups of street fighters band together in a tournament to the Death/Knock Out.This is pretty much just like the one in Soul Caliber IV, what happens is all the fighters will be placed on the tournament tree at the start of the torny, then the fights will begin. As fighters do battle the other players within the tournament will stand by and observe. All head sets will be active mind, so heckling of any kind is allowed, but if you do get a little bit too hacked off with one person then you can always mute them.
Like championship mode in the first game, character selection will be double-blind here, meaning you will not be able to see which character or opponent selects and visa versa so there will be no character cheating here. But sadly there isn’t a no ken selection option implemented into the mode. There is a replay mode however, kind of the same idea as Halo 3′s theater mode, you can watch back your fights in the tournaments replay theater. A nice little addition for those of you out there who like to rub a little salt into your opponents wounds.
Another thing I have found out which I thought was damn interesting was a Belt system. even though Tournament mode is not Ranked, some specific tournaments out there are going to have belts. These belts will be saved to your character, the awesome thing here though is that you cannot keep your belts forever, if someone does beat you in torny mode, you will have to give up your title. Now I am not sure if you can make your own title belt, but if you can be assured that a Plus XP title belt will be built if the opportunity arises.
To me tournament mode is going to be one hell of a great addition. It’s just a shame we have to wait just a bit longer.
Garv
