Street Fighter IV for Playstation 3

This past weekend, I visited my brother who, despite not really being an avid gamer, always seems to have all the newest video games. I wasn't really interested in a lot of what he had, but one title really excited me: Street Fighter IV for Playstation 3. I was blown away.

I've been a SF fan since I was in 6th grade. I spent hours and hours playing Street Fighter II each day, unable to pull myself away from the screen. I probably should have spent the majority of that time studying or something, but that time has passed and there's no need to talk about that now. At any rate, I played that game and all of its 2000 different iterations until I couldn't play any longer. I also played SFIII, the Alpha series, and all the various SF Vs. mash-ups, but none of them truly matched up to the SFII series of games.

Well, after playing Street Fighter IV for only about 2 or 3 hours, I can honestly say that it surpasses SFII. I couldn't believe how good it felt to control the fighters. I was initially concerned about how 3D characters on a 2D plane would play, and I thought it was a bad idea, but I obviously didn't know what I was talking about. The animation is so fluid and natural that it's hard to believe that these are 3D models and not hand-drawn 2D characters. The controls are easy and are pretty much the same as SF games have always been, so anyone who has played those titles in the past can easily pick up a controller and play with no issues. I can't really express the feeling that I got when playing the game except that I did not want to stop. I felt like a 6th grader again, and to me, that's a good thing.

The only problem is that I don't own a PS3 or an Xbox 360, so I can't play the game anytime I want to, but now I am determined to buy one of these machines.

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