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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6:50 AM on 03.12.2008
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maybe a luchador zangeif?
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)
WHERES M BISON
And jigglypuff.
Street Fighter 4: Brawl
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.
I think that's kind of a shame, because I liked weird characters in my Street Fighter.
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.
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?)
Where the hell is Gecko?
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.
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.
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.
Pretty lame Capcom, pretty lame.
I just keep getting let down everytime some new info is released.
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?"