🕹️ New release: Lunar Lander Beyond

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

aka: Street Fighter II', Street Fighter II' Plus: Champion Edition, Street Fighter II': Champion Edition, Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition
Moby ID: 8053

SEGA Master System version

'Oh look pal! i threw a hadoken! (or it's a pancake?)'

The Good
It's funny, yes, maybe the funniest Street Fighter 2 i have ever seen, just hearing the voice of the announcer sounding like a retard made me laugh, but well, let's be serious, Master System never had that digitalized sound, it's not a great conversion, but for being master system is ok. Sprites were ok, well animated and all that, some of the artwork in the game (the fighter's faces) was taken from Super Street Fighter 2, as you will surely notice. The music is the same as always, you will enjoy kicking some butt in master system with Ryu's theme sounding in the background.

The Bad
It has a few bad points, starting by gameplay, it just suxxx, trying to do some special movements may be a real pain. The AI maybe was AD (artificial dumbness) the cpu fighters start hitting in the air without any kind of criteria or strategy. And we came to the backgrounds, for fuck's sake, couldn't they have done some decent backgrounds? i know the Master System can't manage with much detail, but that's just awful, take a look at some screens and you will know what i talk about, the China street for example looks really odd (like if you were fighting in a butchery), and Sagat background is real shitty (maybe adding a little palm tree would have hurted?)

The Bottom Line
It's curious, if you are a SF fan (or a Master System fan too) and haven't seen this yet, you are missing something you will surely find interesting, if you aren't or are just looking for a nice-looking fighting game, just look other way, there's nothing here for you.

by Depth Lord (934) on July 25, 2004

Back to Reviews