SDCC: Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter Announced

[Sanji Himura]

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono had his "Street Fighter IV and Beyond" panel interrupted by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada today, with the rival fighting game makers joining together to announce two Street Fighter versus Tekken collaborations.

Street Fighter X Tekken was introduced with a teaser trailer featuring Street Fighter's Ryu facing down Tekken's Kazuya Mishima in a pre-rendered sneak peek presented in Street Fighter IV's sketchy, inky visual style. The game, pronounced "Street Fighter cross Tekken" will be coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


Following the announcement, Ono surprised the crowd by holding up a Blu-ray disc with a copy of the game, then provided attendees with a live, playable demo.


Street Fighter X Tekken appears to feature Street Fighter IV's gameplay mechanics, locked onto a 2D plane, with both Tekken and Street Fighter characters performing EX-style super moves. The match started off with Ryu versus Kazuya Mishima, but Ono and Harada tagged in two more characters, Street Fighter's Chun-li and Tekken's Nina Williams. Ryu deployed his trademark fireball Ultra move, with Kazuya later following that up with his spinning electrified uppercut.


Harada followed that playable match with an announcement of his own, confirming that Tekken X Street Fighter is also in development at Namco. That game is rumored to play in the style of Tekken, with contestants fighting in a 3D arena.


Ono said the games won't be out "for a while" and that fighting game fans should enjoy Marvel vs. Capcom 3 while they wait.


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Gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5-EBx-MFNw&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[clint g]

Re: SDCC: Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter Announce

Will buy

Maybe one day we'll get a Street Fighter x Tekken x Mortal Kombat x Soul Caliber

 

[crouteru]

Re: SDCC: Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter Announce

This is great news, my two favourite fighting franchises doing a crossover. Interesting that each company is making their own version based on the gameplay of each franchise.

 

[firehawk12]

Re: SDCC: Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter Announce

That's probably the only way it works, so that each company gets to preserve its fighting engine... but yikes, it does feel of cash grab though.

I find it wild that fighting games have basically become this big thing now though. Maybe SF vs MK will actually happen... although, with the way the licenses are, I wonder if that won't turn out to be Marvel vs DC.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Re: SDCC: Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter Announce

I was at this panel, so much hype! Way better than the Ghost Recon panel right before it where people were literally falling asleep (like the dude next to me)

2nd Renaissance for fighting games that's for sure.