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After testing the App Store waters with safe bets like Cash Cab and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, console games publisher Capcom is set to make a major commitment to the iPhone and iPod Touch with an upcoming port of Street Fighter IV.
Released in arcades in 2008, Street Fighter IV assembled a cast of classic characters for a series of one-on-one brawls. If you’ve played video games for any length of time, you know what the deal is here — a bunch of dudes and some ladies beat up on each other with fists, feet, and fireballs. Street Fighter IV adds new features and mechanics to the mix, resulting in what is now considered the new standard in one-on-one fighting games.
Given that the Street Fighter games require precise timing and fluid controls, the iPhone seems like it would be a wholly unsuitable platform for the franchise. Capcom has taken steps to remedy any potential issues, however; the iPhone version of Street Fighter IV features a customizable “Visual Pad” interface that allows players to reposition the on-screen controls to their liking.
There are also fewer buttons to worry about — punches and kicks are mapped to a single input each, and certain special moves can be triggered with a single button press, eliminating the need for complex joystick commands.
Judging from the screenshots released thus far (check out the gallery below for more), Street Fighter IV loses surprisingly little visual fidelity in its iPhone conversion. Capcom promises that the game will feature Bluetooth multiplayer when it launches in March, along with an exclusive Dojo training mode for series newcomers.
Hmmm, considering that the rewarding nature of fighters comes first and foremost from acquiring the necessary skill to pull out special moves (and hs been for a long time, we’re not talking about Bruce Lee here, more like International Karate and Ye Are Kung Fu), to map these to a single button might mean they’re taking away most of the actual game in favor of a visual show… other news outlets had mentioned that Capcom had concentrated their work on controls, but if that were to just boil down to redistributable buttons and macro-commands, then we might be in for quite the disappointment, gameplay-wise.
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