Tekken and Street Fighter, Living Together, Mass Hysteria!
…It’s a Ghost Busters quote. Oh come on, you must’ve gotten that one!
…Anyways, though this isn’t exactly news of the earth-shattering variety (to be honest I’m mostly doing this for the Ghost Busters reference), new videos of the next major fighting franchise cross-over, Streetfighter X Tekken, were released by Capcom and Namco earlier this week, in “dueling videos” style.
For the unaware, Streetfighter X Tekken is going to be two different fighting games, one made by Namco, the other Capcom, with each made in their own trademark style.
The idea of cross-franchise games has always seemed really cool to me, although this trend isn’t necessarily new in the fighting genre, as Capcom’s been making VS games with other franchises, like Capcom VS SNK and the well known seizure inducement that is the Marvel VS Capcom series (click here to see what I mean), but this is likely the first time (in North America, at least) that two arguably well-known fighting franchises will go head to head. Granted Tekken’s stock may have plummeted a bit in North America in the last few years, but they’re still up there with Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat in terms of name recognition.
You’ve got two flavours of video, your Tekken:
…And your Street Fighter:
With the super-informative release date of “2012” all that’s been discussed, it’ll be a while yet before people’ll get their hands on some Ryu vs King action, though I’m sure the game will be previewed at all the big trade shows and exhibitions that are coming up soon.
