5/5 ★ – DanteHR's review of Street Fighter 6.

And here is the first "Fighter" game of this year, and I can say that it was fully worth the wait. "Street Fighter 6", the 6th Main game in the "Street Fighter" series, made and published by "Capcom" delivers absolutely everything we needed in a game like this. From good combat, to impressive graphics and super interesting new mechanics. I could say that it is the "supreme" "Street Fighter" game. At the beginning of the "Street Fighter 6" game, you can choose the game mode you want to play. Online PVP, Arcade PVE and "World Hub" aka Story Mode. The part where the game focuses the most is the "World Hub", something completely new for a "Street Fighter". Imagine what it would be like to walk down the street and challenge absolutely every person you meet to fight you, well, it wouldn't be a "Street Fighter" if you don't have "Street Fights", "Capcom" just took the title of the series seriously. We have reached the most interesting part, the Combat. With all the enthusiasm I can say that "Street Fighter 6" has the best fights in a "Fighter" of the last 5 years. It's absolutely perfect; The combat feels extraordinarily fluid, every combo you make has weight and the characters' moveset leaves nothing to be desired. One of the new mechanics that "Street Fighter 6" adds is the "Drive Gauge", the new "V-Gauge" from "Street Fighter 5". Both being quite similar, each allowing fighters to perform different abilities. Coming back to the game modes, "Fighting Ground" being the first game mode, it's like any PVE / Local PVP gamemode. An arcade mode that allows you to train or to fight with friends for hours on end. The "Battle Hub" as an example is just an ordinary PVP Arena. It allows you to communicate with other players and fight with them Online through the Hub. But, definitely the most interesting game mode is the "World Tour". Just imagine, an Open World "Street Fighter". It sounds so good but so strange at the same time time. Although there are not many "fighters" of this kind, many of them are not very successful either. I can say that I consider this , the best of them. The Open World is simply extraordinarily fun. You start with a rather vague but acceptable "Character Creator", then you are thrown directly into the story of the game, starting from "Luke" , your trainer. At the beginning, you only have "Luke's" moveset, but after you advance in the story and meet other trainers, you can do their questline and unlock their moveset. Then you can make your ultimate Hybrid Moveset. The trainers in "Street Fighter 6" are OG fighters from the "Street Fighter" series. Some of them are fan-favs, such as: "Ryu", "Chun-Li", "Blanka", etc. There are also completely new characters from which you can modify your moveset, "Marisa" and "JP" are two examples. Now , let's talk about the cast of "Street Fighter 6". The game adds 18 characters that you can fight with, PVE and PVP. Many of the characters are the ones we know from the previous games and some characters are completely new. As the end of the category, I can state that the game is very well optimized for a 2023 "AAA" game , the requirements are very small for such a big game, praise be "Capcom" for their supreme engine "RE Engine". As for the graphics, the game looks very good. Certain effects can be clunky and unpleasant, but in general the environment looks like millions. However, the graphics are not the main part , the main thing here is the artstyle. The art style is very successful, extremely different from the previous games. However, every attack or move in the game has a more cartoonish animation, if I could say so. Most of the animations tend to use only 2 colors, orange and blue, especially the movements from "Drive Meter". All that can be said in "Street Fighter 6" is that the artistic vision is very successful and the game can be enjoyed by any age. The only bad thing that I noticed in my 12 hours of gameplay was hair design and physics. The facial hair had a tinge of invisibility and the movements of the hair were very "robotic". The sounds of the game are also very good in their turn, every hit and successful combo has that satisfying anime-style sound. Besides the visuals, the sounds of the game make the combat ten times better. We can say that "Capcom" never disappoints us in terms of sound and music. Speaking of music, the music from "Street Fighter 6" is good , but not as good as the one in the previous games. The music itself is much more modern, "Capcom" tried not to focus on nostalgia so much and tried to create something new. I for one am totally at peace with this idea, they tried not to do like "Ubisoft" with "Ezio's Family", being in any game from "Assassin's Creed 2" to "Assassin's Creed Mirage". The story in "Street Fighter 6" is not the richest story in a "Fighter" game, but it certainly delivers more than the one in "Street Fighter 5". The story can be experienced through the new "World Tour" game mode. The story begins with you, whatever, your character. The game allows you to create your own character and play with him through the world of "Street Fighter 6". After, upon entering the game, your character goes in search of absolute power and arrives at "Luke's" gym, there , "Luke" teaches you, as a trainer, the basics of the fights. The story itself is not very complicated, on the contrary, you'll travel all over the world in search of power, fighting and training with familiar characters. Advancing in the story you will enter a martial arts championship, where only really strong people can participate. An exceptional sequel for such a popular and beloved series. "Street Fighter 6" is the ultimate "Street Fighter" game, adding new mechanics, new characters, even being Open World with a story. I can't call him the best "fighter" in the history of games, but he is somewhere very high on the list. As I mentioned above, it has the best combat in a "Fighter" game from the 5 years. It's already "Capcom's" second game of the year and I can say that they didn't make a mistake at all. They still have half a year for titles, let's hope that the respective titles top notch. Coming back, "Street Fighter 6" is a must-play for all "Fighter" game lovers, even for newbies, I can recommend this game with all confidence. For $60 you will be there. The game offers an exceptional combat with a ton of new elements and a great PVP, you can have fun for dozens, even hundreds of hours without getting bored for even a moment. 9.5/10 Made by DanteHR