During the Tokyo Game Show livestream, Capcom revealed a brand new trailer for Street Fighter 6 featuring several returning world warriors, the battle center, single player character creation, and the return of the good old vandalism car game.
You can watch the trailer embedded below, which details each of the significant discoveries. As far as news of Capcom's next big action movie, that's very little. However, given that Ken doesn't seem so much depressed as annoyed, this puts the theories about Ken homeless on edge.
Let's start with the characters. Blanca, Honda, Dhalsim, and Ken were briefly introduced in the trailer, with a quick montage of some of their special moves, super moves, and Story Mode presence hurriedly introduced to us in Street Fighter 6's flamboyant hip-hop-inspired style. It's hard to say, but you can see a combination of recognizable moves, as well as a few new ones, which is undoubtedly good news for veterans of the series.
Plus, we've got a decent look at a solid character creator that looks like it'll let us create all sorts of weird and quirky avatars, with various Street Fighter common and overt traits (including a bit of Akuma dark Hado for all the anti-heroes). By creating this freak of nature, you can go out into the world, fight NPCS and train with the main characters of the series.
The game also features fun mini-games and combat modifiers. We see players throwing bombs at each other, fighting bulls that charge them, and getting electrocuted while fighting opponents. Also, the classic car destruction mini-game is back, announced at the end as Scrap Heap. So we're starting to see a lot of the more casual, fast-paced content that some fans have been asking for for years.
Finally, in the trailer, we get a first-hand look at the Battle Hub's multiplayer mode, where the player sits in arcade booths, challenges other players, and even competes in tournaments that other people in real life can watch. Obviously, this is meant to evoke a real event, albeit without the smell, the heat, and me, the writer Connor, asking if there were any hotel suites coming after the scene.
All in all, it was an absolutely amazing opening for Street Fighter. All of the returning characters we've seen look great (even if Blanca looks a little odd at her age). Also, it's nice to see that even at this early stage, the single player doesn't feel like an empty empty open world, but actually has some meat in its composition. In general, we really want to get behind the wheel and start crashing cars again.
