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New Street Fighter IV character revealed
6:50 AM on 03.12.2008, Jim Sterling 44 comments

New Street Fighter IV character revealed photo
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Thanks to Famitsu, we can now clap eyes on another brand new Street Fighter IV character. This guy is a Lucha Libre wrestler known as El Fuerte. That's about all we know for now, but enjoy the picture. He looks pretty cool, certainly not as generic as the last new guy that had been revealed. Reminds me of Rey Mysterio, like all Luchadores. Because of the mask, not because of Mexican racism.

As cool as he looks though, there's a certain fellow with a mask who I am impatiently tapping my foot for. More Vega up in the Street Fighter hizzle, please. I ... do not have a hizzle. Or a shizzle. 

[Via Kotaku]


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brad drac's Avatar
brad drac at 03/12/2008 07:22
Half circle, light punch, strong kick to steal ipod.
amalgamut00's Avatar
amalgamut00 at 03/12/2008 07:40
Is he on steroids?
Scape's Avatar
Scape at 03/12/2008 07:41
It seems that all fighters these days need a Mexican wrestler character.
free touch's Avatar
free touch at 03/12/2008 07:49
Fuckers... This takes place in the timeline between SF2 and SF3 correct? Then where the hell is the love for some SF3 characters. Younger versions please.
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Im OK at 03/12/2008 08:09
Damn, I was gonna make the Rey Mysterio ref, but it's been taken already, by the article itself no less. Then I was gonna mention Vega, and that got taken too. So... I got nothing.

adam wolf's Avatar
adam wolf at 03/12/2008 08:11
nice to see another brand new character.
big filth's Avatar
big filth at 03/12/2008 08:19
that mask is pretty lame. It seems like putting a mask on a dude is the easy way out.

If you had a to draw a picture and you got to the face, and you couldnt draw very well, what would you do??

its simple. make his face into a mask.



problem solved

..

(I draw like shit)
Up2NoGooD's Avatar
Up2NoGooD at 03/12/2008 08:23
capcom. stop these silly new characters. well i say new but ive been playing as this guy since VF5 came out.

WHERES M BISON
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SourGr8pes at 03/12/2008 08:30
That's not a luchadore. Luchadores have COOL masks, and don't look a fraction as generic as this dude does.
HarassmentPanda's Avatar
HarassmentPanda at 03/12/2008 08:45
So they're just combining character now? This guy looks like Vega + Balrog. Hopefully he plays differently than the other characters.
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portastad at 03/12/2008 08:59
He kind of looks like a mime instead of a luchadore.
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foxhound421 at 03/12/2008 09:07
as pumped as i am about this game, i've yet to be impressed by any of the new characters. Viper is a KOF knock-off, the other guy (Axel, Abel, ???) looks boring and do we really need another wrestler in SF? every one of these new characters make me less interested in the game.
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Tubatic at 03/12/2008 09:49
So now we need Yoshimitsu. And a guy that fights with a guitar.

And jigglypuff.

Street Fighter 4: Brawl
manasteel88's Avatar
manasteel88 at 03/12/2008 09:50
@Up2NoGood

Wasnt Bison supposed to have die at the end of SF2. So thats where he is.

The luchadore looks silly...best looking one so far is El Blaze from VF5...but I'm sure that he's gonna be polished up design wise much like Viper was.

@foxhound421
Viper is like a mix of Geese Howard and Mai Shiranui move wise and all. Abel has a Flying front kick much the same as Terry Bogard. The similarities of these new characters are all over the place.
Hitogoroshi's Avatar
Hitogoroshi at 03/12/2008 09:58
Eh. Doesn't feel very Street Fighter to me.
freeman1's Avatar
freeman1 at 03/12/2008 10:05
Why is Rey Mysterio in every fighting game now?
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Rucksack at 03/12/2008 10:23
I agree with Hitogoroshi, a lucha just doesn't fit in the with the whole street fighter vibe.
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Irvine_frost at 03/12/2008 10:43
what about hugo and alex from sf3-3, they´re wrestlers so no problem with the "SF VIBE!"
HideousKojima's Avatar
HideousKojima at 03/12/2008 10:45
Dear capcom,if you are gonna friggin put a wrestler in SF4,put in Friggin Mike Haggar from final fight,the new characters are ass...Viper:the scary lesbo corrections officer,Abel:the Eurotrash jogger from hell and this guy who looks like a shaolin monk who put on some lady's underwear on his head.
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KamikazeTutor at 03/12/2008 10:48
Except for Viper, these new characters look so uninspired...
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deiga-the-semivaliant at 03/12/2008 11:10
It seems to me like they're trying to bring SF back to it's more realistic (?) roots... No more unusual characters like Twelve or Necro.

I think that's kind of a shame, because I liked weird characters in my Street Fighter.
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Jaren Face at 03/12/2008 11:11
Personally, I'm really digging Viper and now El Fuerte. Hopefully they'll mix in some characters from SFIII and other Capcom fighters in the same universe. A little more variety is definitely needed.
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animateria at 03/12/2008 11:37
They should put in R. Mika just to have an all wrestling league going on! Yeah!

Then again looking at how all the characters are getting bulked up.R. Mika would probably be quite massive.

I want to see the guy in motion before I judge how he looks btw.
ceark's Avatar
ceark at 03/12/2008 11:40
...a clown?
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imbeta at 03/12/2008 11:53
man... this is a GREAT step above T.HAWK for SURE... (you know, the native American Tex mex guy that was apparently from Mexico) - but I am getting annoyed by the luchador names...

why are they always simple translation of boring words... el fuerte (the strong)? really? that's NO luchador name... that's kind of lame... plus, I'd rather him be a flyer than a muscle man... he doesn't even seem stronger than Zangief...

wait...

what does ZANGIEF MEAN???!!! (anyone, anyone?)
jdub28's Avatar
jdub28 at 03/12/2008 12:01
I would have rather had a quick floyd mayweather like boxer than a quick grappler
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Cowboy TTop at 03/12/2008 12:21
Come on Capcom, I hope you can do better than this. These lucha fighters have been invading fighting games for a while now (do we really need more wrestlers in the game. Why not a Savate fighter instead?

Where the hell is Gecko?
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 03/12/2008 12:26
In no way should they consider other capcom characters other than SF fighters that would just be a copout.

It feels like they're going back to SF2, making it 2.5D and they might as well call it "Street Fighter 2: More New Challengers".
They need to bring back the PARRYING system from SF:III 3rd strike. No matter what, parrying always makes games better.
michiyoyoshiku's Avatar
michiyoyoshiku at 03/12/2008 12:37
Welcome to SF land El Blaze
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Novakaine at 03/12/2008 12:54
What? Capcom, you already have a lucha-libre character, and one who is far hotter--R. Mika. Give her a less indignant uniform as well as a better moveset, and you're set. Plus, it'd be less of a sausage-fest....

I gotta say that overall I'm really unimpressed by SFIV so far. It's gotta have the worst character design/art out of any of the official SF games (at least SFIII had Makoto and Ibuki), and the overpowered Ultras look very unbalanced.
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 03/12/2008 13:12
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 03/12/2008 13:16
Meh. I'm not getting that "future classic" vibe from either him or Abel.
jdub28's Avatar
jdub28 at 03/12/2008 14:31
well they are evolving from a group of racial stereotypes and generic karate men. what makes street fighter characters is their moves.
Cutie Honey's Avatar
Cutie Honey at 03/12/2008 15:51
@Reaprar
La Mariposa in DOA4 was a ripoff of Rey Mysterio? Seeing as there isn't too many FEMALE luchadores out there, she more original than this guy is.
Orochi Borgieman's Avatar
Orochi Borgieman at 03/12/2008 17:23
In order for this character to be original he has to have a completely different move set from other Lucha Libre characters. At least in SF you have unusual fighting moves (Hadoken, Spinning Lariat) than in realistic fighting games (VF, DOA). So far though, I am not convinced.
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Wedge at 03/12/2008 18:32
The only time a luchadore character has been good in a game was Killer 7.
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0bshaky at 03/12/2008 22:05
The guy looks like a M.U.S.C.L.E action figure...

AngelsDontBurn's Avatar
AngelsDontBurn at 03/12/2008 22:18
Doesn't look or feel street fighter at all. Plus he looks no different that El Blaze or whatever his name is in Virtua Fighter 5. All the new fighter game related wrestling characters look too much alike lol.
Pepillou2's Avatar
Pepillou2 at 03/12/2008 22:27
WHY PENIS WHY?!!
c e n o k's Avatar
c e n o k at 03/12/2008 22:52
Hahahaha That means "The Strong".

Pretty lame Capcom, pretty lame.
I just keep getting let down everytime some new info is released.
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 03/13/2008 11:02
seriously guys?

you're comparing him to rey mysterio and el blaze?


Luchadores wear masks, and they fight. All of them do. Then again, when i first played as ELIZA i spat on my television and asked
"Why did they get their EDDY GORDO in my Street Fighter?"
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