Ultra Street Fighter 4 Omega Mode rekindles memories of Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
Ryu gets a parry, Chun-Li a Super Art.
The upcoming Omega Edition of Ultra Street Fighter 4 adds a number of new abilities to the fighting game's gargantuan 44 character roster - and a few of them rekindle memories of Capcom's much-loved Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike.
In a post on Capcom Unity, producer Tomoaki Ayano talks about the changes Omega Edition, which will be available as a free update, will bring.
The headline addition is to Street Fighter favourite Ryu, who gets the Hanagashi move (forward + HP + HK to activate damage-nullifying armour). Based on the screenshot below, we see Hanagashi is clearly inspired by the parry system from 3rd Strike.
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3rd Strike's parry system was at the centre of what many consider to be the greatest moment ever seen in a competitive fighting game match: Daigo "The Beast" Umehara's full parry of Justin Wong's Chun-Li in the EVO 2004 3rd Strike semi-final. Re-watch it in the video below.
In Ultra Street Fighter 4's Omega Edition, Ryu can use Hanagashi to absorb an attack and from there use EX meter to deliver a follow-up strike.
"My inspiration," Ayano wrote, "I guess you could say we wanted a showcase of Ryu's moves from all of the SF games that have been released up until now."
There's more Street Fighter 3 love in Omega Mode: Chun-Li's Houyoku-Sen, her second Super Art from 3rd Strike, returns, using two bars of EX meter for a multi-hit move.
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Information on the changes to characters such as Ken, Zangief, Dhalsim, Honda, Blanka and Guile is over at Capcom Unity.