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I'm really looking forward to this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 24
Date: July 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

SFAC features Hyper Street Fighter 2 from Japan (which is a compalation of all previous SF 2 games) as well as a new game. All versions of characters from every previous SF 2 game (SF 2, Turbo, Special Champion Edition, Super SF 2, and Super SF 2 Turbo) are playable. There is also "Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie" within the game. This game is being released on PS 2 and XBox (hopefully GC as well) and is a must-have for 2-D fighting game fans, esp. Street Fighter 2. I first played this game more than 10 yrs. ago, and I still love it! SFAC has gotten very good reviews from GameSpot and other sites.

15 years later and better then ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Anyone that remembers the Street Fighter II series in any way will most definitely want to get this game. A true homage and celebration of what was and is a classic of fighting games.

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, takes all of the previous Street Fighter II games (Street Fighter II: The Wolrd Warriors, Super Street Fighter II: The new Challengers, Hyper Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II: Championship Edition and Street Fighter II Turbo) and gives you the option of match up with any of the versions of the fighters against another version of said fighters. For example you can have the regular Street Fighter II Ken who's uppercuts didn't cause a firetrail vs. the Hyper Street Fighter II Ken who can do massive combos and fire upper cuts. It's a great little gimic to see how well an older version of a character can do against the later games characters. Not to mention it's a great way to get all the games in one action packed filled Street Fighter disk.

If that wasn't enough, this also includes Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. Which was the third edition of the long awaited sequal to the Street Fighter II series. It has a great grade system that grades each battle you have at the end, parry system and a cool soundtrack. Not to mention characters old and new with some fine graphics. After you get done fooling with old school in SF II, you will be ready to jump into the next level with this game. Never before released on any system besides the now default Dreamcast, so this game alone makes it more then worth it and the fact that you are getting SF II Anniversary edition even more so.

The only drawbacks I could find so far is that the game, even SF III, is a bit dated by some of today's standards. But I think the true appeal of the game is it's nostalgic edge as well as the fact that it's just fun to beat up either the computer or a friend by mastering your favorite character. All the characters have cool endings too making it even more worth while getting through the game. Bottom line, the price is more then worth it and the game is fun whether you were a fan 10 years ago or never played any of the SF games before. It is a purchase you won't be sorry to make.

SHO-RYU-KEN!!

2 great SF games for one low price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm giving it 5 stars for the value of the low price for two excellent fighting games.
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike is arcade perfect, this game is a masterpiece, my favorite 2D fighter.
Hyper Street Fighter II is Super Street Fighter II Turbo with the ability to chose the diffrent versions of each SF2 incarnation (for example, you can select Ryu from any of the 5 SF2 version, so you can pick you favorite one).

2 great SF game, one cheap low price, it's worth it for any SF fan

Best Street Fighter Collection Available

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm gonna rate Street Fighter Anniversary 4 out of 5 stars. For a low cost of 30 bucks you get 2 cool fighters on one disk.
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike is arcade perfect, the characters have the alpha-anime look to them. You can even watch the Street Fighter movie on this disc. Sorry guys, the movie is the PG13 version. You'll have to buy the uncut version if you want to see some skin. My only complaint is some of the music doesn't match the game. (Rap music, huh?)

The old school Street Fighters are here too. All the characters are available to choose from, even the secret Akuma character from Street Fighter II Turbo. This is almost a perfect port of the version from the arcade on your PS2. There are even remixes of the classic tones to choose from here. You can choose from all the different versions of the past Street Fighters! I wish there was an option to adjust the music on this version though; it drowns out some of the cool sound effects. Depending on the version you pick the characters poses, voices, and sound effects also change. The breakable backgrounds are back! There is no missing animation from the character sprites this time. Ryu and Ken actually slant when you move! I've have a few complaints on this version. Some of the colors are slightly faded. This is highly noticeable on Balrog and Sagat back stages. (Where blacks look gray)
The classic bonus stages are missing in this port and each character only has one thing to say after each victory, witch gets kinda old and there is no way to adjust character damage. Some characters can kill you with 3 hits. A minor complaints for the best Street Fighter available. Buy this game if you're a Street Fighter fan. Whens the Street Fighter Alpha collection coming out!?

Tiger uppercut!

Been waiting for this one!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm 27 and have been a Street Fighter Fan since I was 15 and started playing this in the Arcades. I played SFIII in an arcade during the summer of '98 and never found it again. I really loved that version and am glad to see that it's made it to a mainstream home-game platform. I believe it was also on some lame Atari system that failed the test of time.

Anyway...the info that's out on this game sounds GREAT and I can't wait to play it! I was saddended to hear that the bonus rounds have been removed. They were a nice treat and cool throw-back to Final Fight...from whence SFII draws many of it's cool characterictics. Speaking of which...when the hell is someone gonna make an honest and true home version of Final Fight for PS2?! What a classic that game was!!!

timeless

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is by far the best collection that capcom has put together. hyper street fighter 2 will appeal to those who know the differences in each version of street fighter 2. for an example, when zangief misses a screw pile driver, he becomes very vulnerable in super street fighter 2. champion edition doesn't have the missed animation, making him less vulnerable. being able to choose the right version of your favorite character is a big plus. as far as third strike goes, i've never played it in depth. but it looks like i will be. i can now understand why 3rd strike has been called the most overlooked version of the series. it seems to look and play much better than the alpha series. the bottomline is that if i could keep just one 2-D fighting game, this would be it.

Would've been better if online

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Over the past eight years, Capcom's fighting games have gone from making significant changes (Street Fighter 3, X-Men vs. Street Fighter) to moderate changes (Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2) to now barely any changes at all. Yes, with Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, Capcom has found a way to release a new Street Fighter game with practically no effort whatsoever. And we'd be upset if the package wasn't so much fun.
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection is basically two games on one disc: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition. The trick is that while "Hyper Street Fighter 2" sounds like a game you've played before, the version in this package lets you choose any character from any Street Fighter 2 game up to Super Turbo. It answers the dream match up questions of who would win in a fight between Guile from the original Street Fighter 2 and Blanka from Super Street Fighter 2. It can be a lot of fun exploring different match-ups and sorting out which versions of each character you prefer. You'll spend hours reminding yourself of what the differences are. An obvious issue with throwing all these characters together is whether they will be balanced -- is it fair to put Akuma from Super Turbo up against Ryu from the original SF2? The game certainly is not perfect in this respect; you can be competitive with the characters from the older games if you know what you're doing, but we wouldn't recommend the game for tournament play. For those not hardcore enough to care about details such as character balance, it may also be disappointing to see that most of the different versions of the characters are very similar. It's not like you get to put a Street Fighter Alpha character up against a character from the Versus series -- all the different versions look more or less the same, so the appeal on a super casual level is minimal. But the thing about Street Fighter is there are tons of players out there that are more than 'casual' fans. There's a built-in player base that can appreciate subtle differences between different character versions, and for those of you who don't have to refer to the instruction booklet, this is a great title to mess around with. Including all these fighters is a nice way to let players relive memories without having to pick a favorite game from that era, since they're all packaged together into one game. If you're more of a Street Fighter 3 player, you can ignore HSF2: The Anniversary Edition and go straight into 3rd Strike, a port of the best game in the Street Fighter 3 series. If you've played the game before in arcades or on Dreamcast, it's pretty much the same thing here: lots of weird characters, great animation, a fun-to-use but difficult-to-master parry system, and the return of Chun-Li. It's a shame that neither game is playable online, since both would be prime candidates to play against friends over the 'net. To help make up for it, Capcom tossed in Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie for players to watch (though why you have to search the options in HSF2: The Anniversary Edition to find it is beyond us). So really, while every part of this package is well made and fun, there's not much new -- no online to spice things up, no new graphical upgrades, and a movie that's many years old. But we suppose that's the point -- this is a way to celebrate the series being around for 15 years, and at that, Anniversary Collection does a good job.

Great classic fun that still pleases

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection you get to play both Street Fighter II - Turbo and Street Fighter III - Third Strike.

First, realize that this set lets you play OLD versions of Street Fighter. So you have to expect lower quality graphics and sound than modern games have. It's a way to let you see the origins of this series, and to see how far the game has come in only a few years.

That being said, it is actually quite fun to play these games. Street Fighter II Turbo has a cartoony feel to the characters, who only move left and right against stationary backgrounds. You might get an elephant trunk to curl occasionally, but that's about it. The characters are reasonably detailed, and most are white males with an occasional girl or monster thrown in.

The moves are fun but have very basic animations. There are only a few voices that all characters share.

With Street Fighter III, you get a pretty impressive upgrade in graphics. The characters are much more anime-like with smooth attacks. The characters in general are fluid, with moving belts and fabric. The backgrounds are more detailed, with flying birds and moving people. It is still a left-right fighter but gameplay is much more enjoyable.

The sound in the levels is themed to each level and gets you in the mood. I do get annoyed by the entry screen music which is loud and rappy, but luckily you don't have to listen to that for long. There are more women available on this version, and the characters in general are ones you can feel a connection with instead of looking at them as random pixel people. There are bonus stages and grading to enhance replayability. In one bonus stage, you beat up on a SUV!

While I only play Street Fighter II occasionally for historical interest, Street Fighter III is quite fun even in modern times and is great either alone to beat your previous scores or against a friend for head to head fun. And you can't beat the low price!

AWESOME FUN...with another player

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 23 / 26
Date: September 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, Street Fighter Anniversary collection is certainly what I expected, sort of. I was stoked to hear about being able to play as all of the versions of the original Street Fighter 2 characters, and the Street Fighter 3 game included is a lot of fun, but there are some issues I have with this game package as a whole. It's not a total loss, but there are some things that irk me about this title.

GAME CONCEPT: In case you were born this morning, Street Fighter 2 is the 2D fighter to start all fighters. It is simple in design, yet so much fun that I remember spending countless hours playing it on the Super Nintendo back in the day. I remember always being jealous of the Sega Genesis version of Street Fighter Champion Edition, which had upgraded character portraits and let you use the bosses and I believe had newer special moves, but was delighted with the release of SF2 Turbo and Super SF2. Although not readily apparent to some, the versions of the characters between each game are very different, from sounds they make, to animations, to some of the moves (special and regular). Hyper SF2 lets you choose which game version you want to use, and after you pick your options become dictated by your previous choice; so if you chose the original Street Fighter 2, you can only select the original eight world warriors, not the four bosses or the four exclusive to the "Super" editions. While those who use the characters from later editions have a clear advantage, it is a great way to handicap the pros (the CPU will always use the Super Turbo versions). All of the backgrounds for each character are intact, but the only problem is that the bonus levels from Hyper are missing...oh well. Included on Hyper is the animated movie of Street Fighter. SF3 plays very similar to Hyper (I always use Ken and there is practically no difference in usage), but the graphics have been given an anime overhaul. I find this game to be very pleasant and fun, but it certainly lacks a lot of the original characters...oh well, they're all in Hyper, so who cares?

Now here's my problem. First, let me let it be known that I can beat all courses on FZero GX on Master, clear Tekken 4 on Ultra Hard easily, beat Contra 3 on Hard, beat Metal Slug 3, clear Killer Instinct on it's hardest setting, and clear the original Super SF 2 on four stars and losing only to a boss once; I'm not a phenom gamer, but I am pretty decent. Well, lets just say my controller went flying around quite a bit while playing Hyper...on the "Easiest" setting. This game is nearly impossible! I left it at "Medium" right off the bat, expecting that to be just enough...I couldn't even beat them! I had to resort to using cheap maneuvers that meant less strategy and more boredom. The difficulty I think is severely skewed in this game, and hopefully is fixed in the X Box version. I tried it on it's Hardest setting and could beat the first guy only, I expected that, but I couldn't believe how hard "Easiest" was. Oh well, this game is truly fun when you have a human opponent to play with, but that is where I ask what is up with the lack of online play? I would have gladly sacrificed the edited anime movie for online play. This I think is inexcusable; this game was known for it's Arcade showdowns, and with the advent of online gaming, it is a wonder why they didn't include...oh well, X Box fans can rejoice because they'll get it.

GRAPHICS: It's what you would expect from back in the day, except with Hyper that from my experience with the Super Nintendo games there are some extra frames of animation with character movment (Such as moving backwards with Ken, Ryu, Guile, and Blanka). Nothing outstanding, but they work for the old schooler in me.

SOUND/MUSIC: Again, it's pretty much the same as before except I find the music from the Arranged and CF1 extremely irritating in Hyper, select CF2 for the closest renditions of the original tracks.

CONTROLS: The controls are what you make them. I highly recommend NOT using the analog stick, and instead utilize the DPad.

OVERALL: This game would have been much better with online play, but without it you'll either have to find a friend or tackle the near impossible CPU on Arcade mode, and that's fun for about ten minutes. I would definately rent this first, even if you did like the games before.

Street Fighter 3 is the only reason to buy this.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: September 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all let me say that I am an avid classic sf fan. I own an Street Fighter 2: World Warrior arcade system, all original parts. I have every incarnation of the classics from snes to genesis to the ps1 street fighter collection. The best version aside from the arcade is the ps1 collection for these. The characters and cpu play exactle like the arcade in ps1. Not so for here. Here is all of the issues found after hours of playing. All versions- everyone- not so easy to do the jump in attack and throw combos, players are pushed farther back when blocking. All versions- especially classic guile- the percentage of damage is not even close to that of each respective arcade game. Classic guile- no glitches whatsoever, no strong throw magic sonic boom follow up- nothing. Classic guile- sonic booms with jab tend to come out at various speeds, so you cant set the opponent up with a jab sonic boom and cheap throw while they are blocking. Classic Chun Li- she is not nearly as powerful or easy to throw with. Champion Bison- His bicycle kick now pushes the opponent farther back while they are blocking making the follow up throw nearly impossible, damage is too little as well, while playing with him as well, sometimes charachters will get magically pushed a little bit apart as well. All versions of ryu and ken- now dragon punches are a milisecond or so delayed... very annoying compared to ps1 version. The cpu plays terribly cheap... not even close to the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo engine as some say... the game is actually ridiculous and you will be pissed, I must warn you. A jump in roundhouse and sweep by ryu can leave you with only 40 percent of life!!! They really butchered these classics and my freinds and I stick with the ps1 version for these original classics... I really recommend going to an online auction and finding the ps1 collections, there are 2. I really hope they fix the countless errors in this butchered remake for the xbox for online play... oh and we get the stupid announcer only from SSF2, no option for the original one :(.
-That aside-

Street Fighter 3 Third Strike plays exactly like the arcade, I have it right down the street from my place and it seems to play just like the arcade. OH and there is no loading time between matches too :).

Furthermore, I would like to say that those fans of classic, powerful, Guile will be thoroughly dissapointed like me :(. C'mon Capcom, how hard would it be to release real versions that played like the arcade characters. Jeez.... The 3 stars is for SF3... great game. No stars for the hyper edition. E-mail me for questions, technical and non technical street fighter fans!
Im out
Chad

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