The official Japanese Web site for Capcom's Street Fighter IV has gone live, and does the music playing in its background make you want to shake your ass or what?
The site contains screens which we've already seen, as well as character bios for characters we already know about -- Ryu, Ken, and the recently revealed Crimson Viper. According to translations found on the appropriately named fan-blog, The Street Fighter Blog, the Japanese bio text reveals juicy info on the three characters.
Ryu ("Continual Pursuer") has a "life condition" that forces him to fight, apparently; Ken's ("Red Lotus Fighting King") wife is pregnant, so he wants to beat up Ryu; and Crimson Viper ("Ms. Perfect") is tough, smart, and business-like, with a body trained to be a weapon ... kind of like Oprah Winfrey.
I refreshed the bio page 475 times and nothing changed, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before new characters start rearing their oversized noggins.
Contest:
3:08 PM on 01.13.2008
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did ryu get ken's wife pregnant?
so, all in all, a lot of ugly to go around
Awesomes!
Let's home this game starts looking more like something I want. Right now I'm 50/50.
needed my funky sfiv techno fix fast!
You are imagining things!
(goes and adds link to the site)
Poor Street Fighter. I remember when you used to look good.
2) Why are we on the way back machine? Wouldnt this mean IV could be Alpha X? I'm kinda lost in this "contextual" excuse for a storyline.
3) Looks like the new designs of the characters are here to stay. (sigh) I miss SF3's art style.
4) Why are so many praising this? Across the web, its always positive. If you don't like it, be honest with yourselves.
And last, its alot like watching that last movie; you knew it wasn't that great, but you can't turn away.
I'm liking that art.
I mean, this is just sad. Almost at a Mortal Kombat Armageddon level of ugly.
Yegh.
OK I havent been keeping up, but the last time I read about SF4 was they were going to do the game in 2D with super high resolution sprites... and they even posted .gif images of the characters etc... so what happened to that?
NNNRRRRGGGHHHH. What the hell.