^Please stay tuned for our adverts street fighter 6 Beta impressions, and plenty of original PS5 footage.
Fighting games are often riddled with network code issues, matchmaking discrepancies, and general annoyances that often make the online experience a pale shade of the immediacy and excitement of an IRL tournament, or just hanging out in a nineties arcade game. Of course, this isn’t a problem unique to fighting games: Zoom calls are trivial compared to spending the right amount of time with your teammates. That’s it.
However, Capcom appears to have addressed many of these issues. street fighter 6 The closed beta ended on Sunday, and we were impressed with its smooth, often lag-free demo (it even managed to put on a good show over wifi), and one that really felt like hanging out in an arcade Social space with actual machines to sit down to challenge nearby players to bouts.
It’s pretty impressive stuff, and the wide range of character creators brings a lot of charm to the whole thing, dotted with various shops where you can buy clothes and items for your in-game self.
At this point, all that’s left after the Street Fighter 6 beta is World Tour Mode: a Yakuza-style single-player experience that seems like a good time for casual gamers and Street Fighter diehards alike. However, given how well the Battle Hub is taking shape, we have no doubts that the World Tour will be something just as special.
Don’t just take what Connor and I say: our resident Capcom fan and arcade preservationist, Alex Donaldson, thinks this is a very good time too.
street fighter 6 will be published on personal computer, PS4, PS5and Xbox Series X|S in 2023.
