Street Fighter X Tekken

The Street Fighter X Tekken is finally well under the way of development! Although there's still no release date, and all we have currently is the video above, some screenshot, and some information on what characters are playable, it's still exciting to just imagine how the game will turn out! ( Capcom, I beg you, don't screw this one up! )

Yoshinori Ono, the producer, spoke:

When we [Capcom] took that 10 year break between releasing Street Fighter games, I feel that Tekken diligently stoked the fighting game campfire and kept people interested. With Street Fighter IV we tossed kerosene on that fire and got fans really excited about fighting games again.

I was having dinner with the Tekken director [Katsuhiro] Harada-san shortly after Street Fighter IV came out and we got talking about how we could keep that campfire burning. We were half-joking when we first conceived this collaboration, but it did seem like a great idea to both of us and pretty soon we were both saying, ‘you go back to your office and I’ll go back to mine… let’s synchronise watches and convince everyone that we should do this’. Long story short, we’ve got our game coming; they have a similar thing going on over there, and we’ll see what happens.

Street Fighter and Tekken have always been different games. Street Fighter is slower paced and a little more deliberate, it’s all about judging the distance between yourself and an opponent and anticipating what they are going to do. It’s not as aggressive as Tekken, which is played at a faster pace, right from the very first punch.

What we’ve tried to do here is merge the two so that you retain some of the more thoughtful approach that you associate with Street Fighter, while also getting a taste of that more ‘in your face’ Tekken style. We think we’ve found a way to get the best of both and we’ll just continue fine-tuning so that the final result is a perfect marriage and a unique game in its own right.

There was some communication early on and, usually with a collaborative project like this, we would be obliged to buy some Tekken reference materials, but I certainly don’t want to give money to a competitor, so I’ll most likely work out some private deal with Harada-san where we borrow that stuff. I’m not going to tell him exactly why we need it though, that would be showing too much of my hand.

But back to the original point, they have no input into our game and we have none into theirs.

The list of currently announced playable characters:
Street Fighter : Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile and Abel
Tekken : Kazuya, Nina Williams, King, Marduk and Bob

The trailers:




Although the game is a crossover, but that doesn't mean that one of the systems are more dominant in this game. From the moment you choose a team of fighters and dive in, it’s immediately apparent this is a smart blend of two completely different play styles, one that takes pieces of both and creates something totally new. How the play style will be can be seen in this video below!

The Latest 8-Minute Fight Video:


Hopefully, the game will bring out the best of both the world of Tekken and the world of Street Fighter. Although there's still ways to go until this game's features are announced, from the trailers and the brief look at the gameplay, it's clear that this game will be something to look forward to!

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