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Eagle-eyed kicky-punchers at Belgium's NEXT expo in Heysel have uncovered what looks like a complete Street Fighter IV character roster.
Reports corralled by Kotaku claim that a Japanese console version of SF IV was on display, and that the game had 25 available characters.
A photo posted on Imageshack and highlighted by Shoryuken forumites supposedly shows Rose among the other previously confirmed faces. There are 26 slots, but the question mark to the right of the countdown is presumably random-select.
Up to now the official line has been that the 12 original SF II characters return, joined by newcomers Abel, Crimson Viper, Rufus and El Fuerte, with Seth, Akuma and Gouken as bosses and hidden characters, and Dan, Fei-Long, Sakura, Cammy and Gen, which makes 24. If Rose is 25, that's presumably it.
Eurogamer has contacted Capcom for comment, but we wouldn't expect much in the way of confirmation.
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carrotcake
11/11/08 @ 09:15
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Cool roster. Enjoyed playing this at the EG Expo even though I'm rubbish.
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neonemesis
11/11/08 @ 09:18
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I'm a sucker for Street Fighter though I too am not very good at it. Had a go on an original Super Street Fighter 2 machine the other week and was shocked at how crap I was. Still downloaded it on the VC though.
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rhinoxious
11/11/08 @ 10:41
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Being called Seth, I'm very happy to see that Seth is a playable character.
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I don't understand... why would you put in Zero/Alpha characters in the canon SF series, when there are awesome sf3 characters like Alex or Ibuki could be thrown in there.
And even if you were going down the SFA/Z route, why is Rolento missing. I hate this new producer douche. Where's the parrying motherfuckers? |
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Rose would make sense; the bottom row looks like all characters from Alpha/Zero series. Row above is all new characters and the one above that are the classic bosses. I think having Rose is great - she may look like the owner of a brothel from the old west, but she dresses with a little more modesty than most other fighting chicks.
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... that said Remy does suck in terms of being an effective in-game character at high levels of play.. I will agree with that. Charge-characters always seem to get shafted the more mechanics are added to the SF2 base. I'm noting that Guile is already seen as low-tier on SF4 - although its early days yet, hopefully the home version will shake things up a bit too.
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neonemesis
12/11/08 @ 09:46
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I hope they don't include T Hawk or am I the only one who thinks he's a terrible, unbalanced character?
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neonemesis - Yep, you're the only one I'm afraid! Hawk is really quite weak in Super Turbo, expect him to actually be playable on HD Remix though - he was a lot of fun to play in the 7 character test version of HDR I played anyway. :)
waynema - 360, then you can try to kick my ass too if you like. :D But yeh, especially if you've got a good 360 stick anyway, although you may want another one ANYWAY when you see the SF4 sticks... 360 seems to be becoming the more popular one for new fighting games too though really, which is actually surprising. I suspect it's the online play though, see VF5 for example. |
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I can't ID that lady in the lower left... Is that Juli/Juni? Looks like Vice from KoF, which... it obviously isn't.
edit: Ohh, Sakura, right. Couldn't see the headband. Well, suits me! Very happy to see Fei Long there, I'd lost hope after the last rumour fizzled. I always wanted to like T. Hawk, but apart from his air-dive, all his special moves were 360s, could never get them to behave in the SF2s.
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