Admittedly a low bar, but still, Capcom could have easily half-assed the story mode, just as so many other fighting games still choose to do, and still have been widely praised based solely on the strength of its multiplayer.

Street Fighter 6 has the best story mode in any fighting game I’ve played. Yet, with Street Fighter 6, Capcom have seemingly done the impossible. There have been some valiant attempts at rectifying this in the last decade, but the core issue has always remained the same fighting games are inherently designed to be played against other people, and back-to-back fights with AI controlled characters will never be able to properly match the competition of the real thing. As a result, more than 30 years later, one constant in the fighting game genre has always remained true: the story mode is gonna suck. This blueprint proved to be so influential that even some of Street Fighter 2’s most underwhelming elements are still being parroted in fighting games today.

Unbeknownst to Capcom at the time, Street Fighter 2’s massive success would cause it to become the blueprint for fighting games - a genre the game effectively created upon its release. Reviewed on: Ryzen 9 5900X, RTX 4080, 64GB RAM, Windows 11īack in February 1991, Capcom released Street Fighter 2 to arcades.

Smooth online matches and an impressively in-depth story already put Street Fighter 6 leagues above the competition.

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