Film is finally rolling! The official blog on the upcoming movie, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, is now live… again… (After being brought to its knees earlier). Currently the blog has an entry from their first week of shooting in the exotic location of Bangkok, Thailand. A quick cast bio is also up, with promises of future exclusive cast interviews and scoops as well. Finally, they also present us a page direct from their early storyboards. Cool stuff indeed!
Go ahead and click on the link above to read the blog. Rest assured. I promise the their blog is much more Jean-Claude-free than ours.
The UK’s Neo Empire just hosted the Super Vs Battle event in Westminster, London. Held on March 29th and 30th, the event featured competition on games including Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Capcom vs SNK 2, Street Fighter II Anniversary Edition, and Street Fighter Alpha 3. The winners came from around the continent and beyond, with winners from Greece and Japan as well as England.
Check out videos from last year’s action here, and stay tuned for more information on future events at the Neo Empire site.
This is part nine in an extended series of articles from David Sirlin, detailing the changes we’ve made to the rebalanced mode of the new Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project. The previous articles can be found here. This week focuses on the character so cliched that he stands out even among a strong field of cliche contenders: Hitenryu kung-fu master Fei Long!
Balancing Fei has been a long and rocky road, so this is a long entry, but it’s also a ton of fun for Fei Long fans and game design nerds alike. Read on!
Part 9: Fei Long
Fei Long is usually considered one of the five worst characters in the original Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, but he’s still pretty deadly if he can get close to the opponent and get his offense going. The trouble is, it’s very hard for him to ever get close enough to most characters to get it going. Also, his Flying Kicks move (aka Dragon Kicks, aka “Chicken Wing”) is just too hard for most players (including myself) to physically execute. Unlike the other Tiger Knee-like moves, the Flying Kicks required you to start with *back* on the stick, then go down/back, down, down/forward, forward, up/forward + kick.
This is part eight in an extended series of articles from David Sirlin, detailing the changes we’ve made to the rebalanced mode of the new Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project. The previous articles can be found here. This week focuses on the world’s tallest Thai, the kickboxer Sagat.
Sagat
Sagat—well actually “Old Sagat”—is one of the best characters in ST. He’s even soft-banned in Japan, meaning there’s a tacit agreement not to play him, even though you are technically allowed. He might not be as strong of a character as Balrog or Dhalsim overall, but the problem is that there are several matches where he just dominates. His Tiger Shots (fireballs) are so powerful that many characters spend the entire game trying to get around them. I think everyone knows that this nerf is coming.
News from Hollyweird: several more actors have been cast for the 2009 movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li that Capcom is producing with Hyde Park for Fox. Filming has also begun, so pop the champagne!
Smallville mega-hottie Kristin Kreuk will be playing Chunster, and will be the main character in the movie. Who knew Kreuk was of Chinese descent? Plus Dutch and Canadian. She’s a veritable smörgåsbord of hotness. Umlaut!
Michael Clarke Duncan from The Green Mile and Sin City will be Balrog. Look at those guns!
Taboo out of Black Eyed Peas will be Vega. Hopefully, backflips are a big part his on-stage dance moves.
Neal McDonough will be donning the peaked cap and flappy cape of Bison, everyone’s favorite crime lord/would-be dictator. McDonough has been in a ton of movies and TV shows you’ve seen, including Band of Brothers and Minority Report.
Chris Klein’s role as Charlie Nash was announced a few weeks back. His on screen name is cool, as it actually incorporates the two different names this character is known by. For some reason that even I can’t remember (and I’m old and know lots of odd Capcom secrets and weirdnesses), the character of “Nash” in Japan became “Charlie” in the US. Justin Marks, the screen writer cleverly slammed both names together — an idea borrowed from the comics, evidently — which should make people happy regardless of country of origin.
Over on their side of the tubes, Games Radar is celebrating a week of Street Fighter. They plan on bringing you character bios, charting the evolution of the art and style of the game and (perhaps) even playing a little bit of SFIV. To get things rolling, they’ve decided to highlight some of the weirdest slams of the series. Who could forget those awesome, ire-inducing screens that pop up after you lose a match. Being spoken smack to by an arcade machine (or Super Nintendo cart) is a guaranteed way to make the average gamer’s brain explode with great violence and furious anger, innit? Bump over to the Radar and relive those controller-chucking moments of your youth.
Here’s the straight story on the glorious highs, devastating lows, and delicious middles behind making Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, from the game’s producer, Rey Jimenez:
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Long time, no see Street Fighter fans. Sorry for not writing in a few months, but hopefully David Sirlin’s articles have been keeping you in the loop on HD Remix news. The reason I haven’t posted in a while is that there has been a lot of changes in HD Remix and we really had to focus on what was going on with the game. But now, I think it’s time I give you guys the run down on what’s been going on the past few months.
First of all, creating HD Remix has turned out to be a much more difficult task than we could’ve anticipated. There have been many recent challenges ranging from developing rock-solid netcode from the ground up to creating super-polished art for that truly lives up to the name Street Fighter. If we had gone the “good enough” route, you probably would be playing the game right now, but that wasn’t the route we wanted to take here at Capcom.
UDON is cooking up a cool new art book, featuring character interpretations from artists who grew up on Street Fighter. The best part is that in addition to their handpicked contributors, the contest is open to anyone that wants to submit! Click here for the details and submission guidelines.
“The Street Fighter fans who were young players when the franchise first launched are now grown up, but their love of the game continues. This high quality art book, showcases a cross section of brand new artistic interpretations of the Street Fighter characters in a series of full size pin-up style illustrations. The book will launch at this year’s Comic-con International: San Diego as part of Capcom’s Street Fighter Celebration content.
UDON artists and other comic, video game and freelance illustrators have been invited to interpret their favorite Street Fighter characters for inclusion in this special book. Along with these invited artists UDON is sending out a widespread open art submission call to the video game fan artist community to submit artwork for possible inclusion in the tribute volume.
You could be part of Capcom history as part of the Street Fighter Tribute art book and have your artwork showcased alongside top names in the industry! It’s time to show UDON and Capcom your unique vision of Street Fighter!”
Street Fighter scientist Majestros‘ has brewed up a lovingly edited tribute to the original SF2 combomaster, TZW.
Back in the SF2 days, I was such a nut that I paid some punk from usenet $20 for an 8th generation VHS dub of a TZW video. When I got it, it was so fuzzed out that all I could see was the bottom 20% of the screen (their feet) and hear the sounds. If this sounds like a disappointment, you couldn’t be more wrong–the feet + the sounds were plenty for me to realize exactly what was happening on screen and take my first steps toward recreating the magic.
Poke through the rest of Maj’s site to find more of his amazing efforts.
TheSwitcher continues his one-man crusade against the Street Fighter cartoon on USA, this time putting it up against the Japanese animated Street Fighter movie. Fei Long at 2:21 ftw!
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