Street Fighter x Tekken gets Kuma, Ibuki

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 1 August, 2011

Teaser videos inside.

Japanese ninja girl Ibuki and giant bear Kuma are playable characters in Street Fighter x Tekken.

Street Fighter main man Yoshinori Ono showcased two teaser trailers, below, which confirm Ibuki and Kuma's appearance, at the Evo 2011 fighting game tournament in Las Vegas.

Ibuki and Kuma join Ryu, Kazuya, Ken, Nina, Guile, King, Abel, Marduk, Cammy, Bob, Chun-Li, Julia Chang, Sagat, Hwoarang, Dhalsim, Steve Fox, Poison and Yoshimitsu on the playable roster.

Previous trailers indicated Hugo, Cody and Guy are playable, too, although these characters remain unconfirmed for now.

The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions of the game include inFamous' Cole MacGrath as a bonus playable character.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • StolenGlory #1 10 months ago

    So let me get this straight.

    They leave out Dan Hibiki and Anna Williams for Kuma?

    Shit off.

  • Master09 #2 10 months ago

    Wonder if SFxT release means many SSFIV players moving on to SFxT. Is that what CAPCOM want?

    Can't see both games having big online communities simultaneously.

  • digiwalsh #3 10 months ago

    Gouken or GTFO

  • BigDannyH #4 10 months ago

    Not sure why I'm sceptical of a bear joining the cast, especially considering I main a green man-beast who can make electricity shoot from his body.

    I do want this to be good, but I'm far from convinced at the moment.
    Edited by BigDannyH at 01/08/11 @ 20:44

  • Eoin #5 10 months ago

    They leave out Dan Hibiki and Anna Williams for Kuma?

    Well, as a Tekken character, Kuma wouldn't be put in instead of Dan. Also, I'm not quite sure that Dan is definitely out - the denial of him not being in because he was "killed" in the trailer seems more of a joke than a serious denial.

    In terms of Kuma versus Anna, even though Anna is a unique and worthwhile character, there is still the perception that she is a Nina palette swap (even though that hasn't been true since the arcade version of Tekken 3). Kuma, on the other hand, doesn't have the same issue. Some people do tend to view Kuma as a joke character, but even if that were true (and it's really not), I don't think there's much of a problem with joke characters per se - something I think you'd probably agree with, if you'd like Dan included.

    In the end, the reality is that Street Fighter and Tekken both have a gigantic amount of characters, and they can't possibly all be included. 50%+ of the roster on both sides is going to have to be left out, and that is going to mean that a lot of people's favourites aren't going to be in the game.

  • sega #6 10 months ago

    How have Hugo, Cody and Guy not been officially confirmed? Their own official trailer showing them off as a "new challenger" isn't confirmation enough?
    Edited by sega at 01/08/11 @ 11:44

  • StolenGlory #7 10 months ago

    @Eoin

    The crazy thing of course is that Kuma himself is largely a pallette swap of Jack with less interesting moves; so why don't they just bring Jack in and kick out the useless fuzzy bear?

  • Mr_Wizard #8 10 months ago

    Uh... those trailers are both the same. Shouldn't there be one for Ibuki?

  • Slipstream #9 10 months ago

    Ibuki! YES!!!!!!

  • TRUTH #10 10 months ago

    SF vs TKN does anyone else think the backgrounds don't quite suite this game - they seem to cartoony and comical from the ones I seen.

    KOF XIII is also coming and is looking awesome.

  • Eoin #11 10 months ago

    Honda's also in that trailer. A little bit.

    The crazy thing of course is that Kuma himself is largely a pallette swap of Jack with less interesting moves; so why don't they just bring Jack in and kick out the useless fuzzy bear?

    Kuma was "largely a palette swap" of Jack. In the original Tekken. Even then they were different. The last time it was truly plausible to say that Kuma and Jack were "largely" palette swaps was Tekken 2, and even then, that would be unfair to both.

    They have diverged massively ever since. They still share a few moves, but even ones that seem similar have different properties depending on whether you're Kuma or one of the Jacks, and they both have large amounts of unique moves. The most recent versions of Jack and Kuma are more different from each other than Ryu is from any of the other shotos in Street Fighter. They're at least as different as Nina currently is from Anna.

    Not sure I'd agree with you calling Kuma useless either. As a character Kuma isn't top-tier, but he's fun to learn and play, and not many people are good at defending against Kuma because not many people play him well.
    Edited by Eoin at 01/08/11 @ 20:34