Poison, Yoshimitsu in SF x Tekken

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 22 July, 2011

Dhalsim and Steve, too.

Capcom has announced four additions to the Street Fighter x Tekken roster.

Poison is a brawler of ambiguous gender lifted from the Final Fight series. Dhalsim will, of course, meditate and destroy you.

From Tekken we get Yoshimitsu, a robotic samurai who has appeared in crossover fighting games in the past. The less said about British boxer Steve Fox the better, really.

The quartet joins Ryu, Kazuya, Ken, Nina, Guile, King, Abel, Marduk, Cammy, Bob, Chun-Li, Julia, Sagat, Hwoarang, Haggar, Hugo, Cody and Guy on the already bulging roster of playable fighters.

inFamous' Cole MacGrath is a bonus character for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions.

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About Wesley Yin-Poole

Wesley is Eurogamer's news editor. He likes news, interviews, and more news. He also likes Street Fighter more than anyone can get him to shut up about it.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • PixelPirate #1 10 months ago

    Street Fighter x Tekken x Final Fight now?

    Why not just call it Capcom x Namco and be done with it!

  • sega #2 10 months ago

    PixelPirate - Street Fighter and Final Fight have always been linked ever since Final Fight was originally called Street Fighter 89. Hugo, Poison, Cody and Guy have all appeared in a ton of Street Fighter games (Alpha, SF3 and SF4 series).

  • Phishfood #3 10 months ago

    lol Poison, she really doesn' belong with the Street Fighter crowd, I doubt she's even a match for Dan story-wise.

    Anyone not familar with Poison, I'll tell you now. It's a trap.

  • sega #4 10 months ago

    Is Poison actually a man, though? I thought that rumour just came from online confusion in refrerence to Poison being replaced by male thugs in the SNES version of Final Fight.

    Besides it's hard to believe anyone would have bothered to write a trans-gender back story, or any story, for a basic enemy in a side-scroller. What's the point? They could have at least added facial stubble, a man's voice or some male feature - at least some clue since I doubt anyone actually thought 'hmm - is Haggar piledriving a man or a woman there'?

  • BigDannyH #5 10 months ago

    I think Poison's gender is ambiguous because they didn't like the idea of Haggar and co. punching women in the face.

    Apparently it's fine to punch a transexual though ...

  • PixelPirate #6 10 months ago

    @sega I know i was being sarcastic ;-)

    Capcom constantly chuck other fighters in their SF games, it just seems as if "Street Fighter x Tekken" should be the core of each franchise, pitted against each other. Otherwise, rename it like their other mixed up fighter games such as Marvel vs Capcom.

  • sega #7 10 months ago

    I'm pretty sure it's only Final Fight characters that have crossed over into Street Fighter from another series. :p

  • yoomazir #8 10 months ago

    Poison eh? Futanari ftw
    Edited by yoomazir at 22/07/11 @ 10:55

  • KujiGhost #9 10 months ago

    Tekken 3 Yoshimitsu FTW!!

  • schnide #10 10 months ago

    Actually, I don't think it's Poison's gender that's ambiguous at all. It's her sex that's ambiguous.

    /pedant

  • BigDannyH #11 10 months ago

    @schnide

    Nice!

  • taurus82 #12 10 months ago

    @KujiGhost
    Definitely Yoshimitsu's best design of all the Tekkens.

  • Mr_Wizard #13 10 months ago

    Is the image scroller broken for anyone else? After a few they don't align properly sideways, so you end up looking at half of one and half of the next.

  • schnide #14 10 months ago

    @Mr_Wizard

    Yes, this for me and other galleries have been broken for the past few days now.