Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (3DO)
65Today I decided to try out the 3DO version of Capcom's SSF2T and the overall result was mixed. This game was released on multiple platforms when it hit the home consoles with the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis versions being the best overall versions to play. The 3D0 version at the time was the only one with super moves and the ultimate evil bad ass: Akuma.
The obvious shortcomings of this version is the fact that the 3D0 controller is just not made to play a one on one fighter like Street Fighter 2 very well. With only 3 face buttons, the 3D0 forces you to assign an attack to a start button which is in a very uncomfortable spot and the control pad itself can become very unresponsive when attempting certain moves. Graphically the game looks pretty decent, though its no where near an perfect port of the arcade graphics as they seem to look washed out at times.
With the game being disc based, you can expect some loading time between sequences and the longest occurs when you're preparing to fight a new character. Thankfully, there is no additional loading between rounds. The game loads all of the character data, in-game sounds and graphics during each load up sequence, but the music itself is in a REDBOOK CD format and played/looped live during the fights. This in theory seems like a good idea, but if you have scratches on your disc or your 3DO laser sucks, the music starts to skip and the game starts to slow down due to the machine trying to reload the data. My hopes of finishing the game met its demise due to this as during the M. Bison fight the music stopped running completely. Upon the next load up I was met with a black screen of death rather then a character select screen...I had to start all over.
The music itself was re-done for this version of the game and its hit or miss. Some stages sound horrible like Vega's (Balrog's) and others are enhanced quite nicely. The music in Cammy's stage is absolutely my favorite version I have heard ! Overall, this is a decent port of the game that could of been enjoyed better had it had a proper controller to play it on. I remember seeing this in a Target store once and really wishing I had a 3D0. I'm glad to see that I really wasn't missing too much.
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