Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams

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Description

It's Street Fighter as you always remember it, with some new moves, characters and combo systems, as well as a more polished look and feel.

The new moves available for each fighter, called Super moves, allow them to fire off very powerful moves. A bar at the bottom of the screen represents the power that you have to use for the moves. You start the first round on 0, and each attack that you make adds power to the bar. Once you reach level 3, you can unleash the special attacks, that can sometimes KO the opponant.

The other major change over the Street Fighter 2 series are the Alpha counters. These can be used to counter an on-coming attack after blocking.

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Alternate Titles

• "Street Fighter Zero" -- Japanese name
• "Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams" -- In-game title
• "Street Fighter Alpha " -- PSN release title
• "ストリートファイター ゼロ" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Games made into comics
• Street Fighter series

User Reviews

Street Fighter: The Next Generation (demo version)	Windows	Zovni (10633)
Looks better than the arcade.	Windows	MrSuperGod (58)
A great game, lives up to the original ST series!	Game Boy Color	Jim Fun (243)

Critic Reviews

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	PlayStation	Apr, 1996	96 out of 100	96
Entertainment Weekly	PlayStation	Mar 29, 1996	A-	91
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	PlayStation	Feb, 1996	36.5 out of 40	91
Mega Fun	PlayStation	Mar, 1996	88 out of 100	88
Total! (Germany)	Game Boy Color	Mar, 2000	1.75 out of 6	85
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	PlayStation	Apr, 1996	8 out of 10	80
Video Games	Game Boy Color	Jan, 2000		80
IGN	PlayStation	Nov 25, 1996	7 out of 10	70
Portable Review	Game Boy Color	Oct 29, 2005	18 out of 40	45
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Feb, 1998	34 out of 100	34

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Trivia

Cover art

The cover of SFA has made it to quite a few "Worst game cover ever"-lists, in both printed and digital media, and it's easy to see why... What IS wrong with Ryu's arms and why is Chun Li so husky? Who approved that cover?

Dan

The character Dan (who made his first appearance in this game) was made as a sarcastic response to Capcom's main competitor on arcade games SNK, who have for years been stealing and cloning Capcom's ideas. As such Dan sports many details reminescent of some SNK characters (his storyline, the ponytail, etc.) and is quite literally a bad clone of Ryu and Ken who has lots of taunting moves but no real power.

Inspiration

This game was inspired by the Street Fighter animated movie (not Van Damme's). Specifically, the movie's flashback sequences, which explain Ryu's slight hair color change, and Ken's ponytail. However the coolest movie tie-in the game has is the ability to play a cooperative match with a friend as Ryu and Ken versus M. Bison (with all three characters on screen! not like Capcom's "vs" series) mimicking the movie's final battle.

Milestone

This was one of the first 2D games to be released for the PlayStation.

Awards

• Electronic Gaming Monthly
  • February 1996 (Issue 79) - Game of the Month (Playstation version)

Information also contributed by Alexander Michel and Evilhead.