ReviewReview: Street Fighter IV Champion Edition – mobile fighting genre takes a step forward
Featuring MFI controller compatibility and widescreen to fit plus-sized smartphones, Capcom’s latest addition to its Street Fighter IV mobile series is what we’ve been waiting for – though the graphics could do with a polish
Capcom
4/5 stars
There’s never been a great mobile fighting game, as the console originals tend to rely on joysticks and gamepads. Even Street Fighter, the most famous fighting game of all time, has had a patchy history on mobile formats.
Street Fighter IV was first released on mobile devices back in 2010, and it wasn’t half bad, a decent virtual approximation of the necessary control scheme. Capcom amped things up by adding multiplayer in Street Fighter IV Volt the following year, but then their ambitions fell apart with a stream of retro releases, crossover titles and blatant cash-ins, meaning the 2010 game was the peak of the franchise’s mobile performance.
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However, Champion Edition (available for Android and iOS) understands the limitations of the format and keeps everything within a good fighter’s simple but sophisticated boundaries.