SNES

Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting

SF II Turbo est un jeu vraiment indispensable. Les fans de l'ancien SFII se feront un devoir de l'obtenir, et les autres, sauf les réfractaires à toute forme de violence, seraient bien avisés d'en faire autant. Le meilleur jeu de baston de la planète, c'est celui-ci.

This time round, your opponents know new moves and use old ones in new ways - and you've never had this much speed before. You control the bosses, too.

A brilliant conversion and everything a Turbo fan could have hoped for. One of the best games ever to grace the Super NES, but do you want to pay extra for a handful of extras?

Todo lo que se le puede pedir a un video juego se encuentra en este cartucho. No lo dudéis.

Streetfighter 2 - Turbo roars quite shamelessly into the top-of-the-range, SNES elite. Fantastically satisfying, long-lasting, gloriously top quality video game amusement. It really would be unbelievably foolish to miss out.

It laughs in the face of Mortal Kombat, pokes fun at Tuff E Nuff and once again sets a standard by which others will be judged, criticisms about punters being asked to fork out twice for what is essential the same game notwithstanding. I've no reservations about recommending Turbo to everyone and anyone who's ever thought about playing a video game. Even if you own the original, this is still an essential purchase (although perhaps not worth the hundreds of pounds some importers are charging for it at the time of writing). My advice: If you can get it for a reasonable price, do so. And if you can't, well...just this once it might actually be worthwhile selling your Grandmother, robbing a bank or dodging some taxes to raise the cash. The message is simple: Get this game!

This first sequel to Street Fighter 2 is very similar to the first, except now you could play as one of the four "boss" characters, including Vega, Bison, Sagat and Balrog. This brings the character selection to twelve. There are also numerous speed settings, allowing for faster and more exciting matches. Otherwise this is basically the same game, and many fans didn't think it was worth the upgrade, especially since its initial price tag was $70.

If you own SNES Street Fighter II it is still a tricky decision whether you should buy Turbo: at current import prices, probably not. But if you have yet to be introduced to the genteel art of street-fighting, and have a few pounds to shed, SFII Turbo is the one to get.

Standard fare by today’s… standards, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat both raised the bar and redefined the then slim fighting game market as the industry moved into the mid-90’s. Even today, popping this cart into the super machine makes for a good time, and if you have access to both an SNES and this title, I suggest you give either it or its upgrade (Super Street Fighter II Turbo, featuring 4 new characters) a try!