Street Fighter 5 is going to be a game that “nobody will expect,” according to Capcom.
The heavily anticipated sequel to Street Fighter 4, which revitalized the revolutionary fighting game franchise, will apparently satisfy both fighting game veterans and newcomers as Capcom wants to take Street Fighter 5 to greater heights than the series has ever reached.
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Speaking to Edge magazine, series producer Yoshinori Ono said: “We’ve been working on Street Fighter 4 for the past seven years now. There’s been a lot of rebalancing and so on, but the game is still going strong, even today. All this means that, with Street Fighter 5, we have a fantastic opportunity to create something with a larger scope, a game that encompasses all that Street Fighter has become in the last few years, but which also expands on that to become something it has never been before as well.”
He continued: “So now we want to create something that nobody is expecting. It’s going to be a title that caters to fans, of course, but one that also invites completely new players onto the scene. Street Fighter 4 was about reviving a passion. Street Fighter 5 is about growing that passion.”
I’m not sure what direction Street Fighter V could possibly take in order to bring us a game that no one is expecting, unless it takes a dramatic 180 degree turn and somehow winds up being a first-person shooter. Its debut gameplay trailer certainly suggests that it’s going to be exactly what we expect, in that it will be a fighting game which features the likes of Ryu and Chun-Li as combatants, but maybe there is more to the game than initially meets the eye. Perhaps Capcom will add in some unique and innovative online modes, or maybe they’ll pull the whole bait ‘n’ switch like they did with Street Fighter 3, and get rid of all of our favorite characters and replace them with robots in trench coats oand whatever this thing is:
With Street Fighter 5 set for release at some point next year, we’re still going to have to wait a while to find out whether or not the game will really offer us something we aren’t expecting, or if this is merely hyperbole spouted by Capcom in order to keep us interested.
