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There are five fantastic Street Fighter titles in one low cost package.
To say that the success of Street Fighter II and its upgrades was a tough act to follow would be a gross understatement. <
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>Back in the early '90s, you couldn't walk into a convenience store or video arcade without hearing the sounds of Capcom's legendary fighting game. <
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>Faced with the demand for new installments in the series, Capcom did something smart: The company created a prequel, 1995's Street Fighter Alpha (or Street Fighter Zero, as it was named in Japan). The game featured its own anime-inspired look, new play mechanics, and a number of classic Capcom characters, including younger versions of some of Street Fighter II's favorites. <
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>While diehard SFII players scoffed at these changes and never grew to like the Alpha series as much as the SFII games, the Alpha series earned its own dedicated following. Now all three Street Fighter Alpha games are available in arcade-perfect form together on one disc. <
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>It's missing a few of the extras added to home versions of Alpha 3, and you can't play it online, but who cares about playing online, (if it were a choice of more character or online play i'd pick more character every time), it's still a great package for fighting-game fans. <
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>After all, these games are still good looking and fun to play. <
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>The Street Fighter Alpha series is more than 10 years old, but these games are still good-looking and challenging today. <
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>Street Fighter Alpha Anthology features five games: Street Fighter Alpha (1995), Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996), Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (1996), Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1998), and Super Gem Fighter MiniMix (1997). <
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>Chances are you're already familiar with most of these games, but a couple of them are relatively obscure. Super Gem Fighter MiniMix a cutesy fan-service project based on the superdeformed characters of the excellent Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, isn't a Street Fighter Alpha game but should be a welcome addition for just about anyone interested in this collection. <
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>It's deliberately easier to control than the Alpha games, requiring just three action buttons instead of six, but it's got its own unique twists and no shortage of sight gags and cameo appearances. As for Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, it's an upgrade to Alpha 2 that reintroduced Cammy to the roster and made some balance tweaks, but it's certainly not uniquely different from Alpha 2. <
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>Still, having at least three solid, fairly distinct fighting games in one set for a discounted price is a great deal. <
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>Street Fighter Alpha 2 is probably the highlight of the set. Back in the day, it added many new characters to Alpha's lineup (including some old SFII favorites), beautiful new background graphics, and lots more moves and variety. A couple of years later, Alpha 3 did some interesting things to the series, though certain gameplay changes (such as forcing players to push two buttons simultaneously for basic throws and recovery moves) never sat well with longtime Street Fighter fans. At any rate, all three of the core games in the Alpha series are sufficiently interesting and still fun to come back to, regardless of whether you play against the computer or a friend. <
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>Training, survival, and the two-on-one "dramatic battle" modes are also available to extend the lives of these games. <
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>But wait, there's more! Some hidden unlockable spin-offs for some of the Alpha games are thrown in here for good measure. Most notably among them is an updated version of Street Fighter Alpha 3, which added the few remaining Street Fighter II-era characters (Guile, T. Hawk, Fei Long, and Dee Jay) who hadn't already come back to the series as part of the original Alpha 3 roster. <
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>However, this update still is missing some of the extra features added to home versions of Alpha 3, such as the World Tour mode, which let you customize your fighter with new abilities as you won successive matches. Considering how comprehensive this package seems to be--it even lets you switch between different release versions of the games, which introduced balance changes that only hardcore players would notice--the absence of every Street Fighter Alpha 3-related variant is a little disappointing. <
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>The lack of online play is great as i fear they would have removed something else to put online play in, thank you capcom for not including it. <
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>Three of these guys aren't actually in Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. Confusing, huh? At least they're in a hidden version of Alpha 3. <
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>Those caveats aside, Street Fighter Alpha Anthology delivers exactly what you'd expect: arcade-perfect conversions of some excellent 2D fighting games. Every last frame of animation seems to be in here, and you can tinker with a variety of display settings to get the game looking as sharp or smooth as you prefer. Loading times occur only when you boot up each game from the main menu (and they're brief even there). <
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>Once you get into a game, the action is as fast paced as ever.There are dozens and dozens of characters available across all of these games, including a lot of subtle variants to some of them, designed to play like classic Street Fighter II-era fighters, with no super moves or other fancy stuff. <
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>Visually, these games all still look surprisingly good, thanks to the care put into their hand-drawn frames of animation and colorful backgrounds, filled with cameo appearances. <
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>The original Alpha looks pretty bland compared to the later games, but considering Capcom went on to recycle Alpha's character graphics in seemingly dozens of subsequent games, it's still remarkable. <
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>Likewise, a lot of great-sounding speech clips, amusing textual dialogue for victory screens and endings, and other interesting details abound in these games. <
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>Your mind is probably already made up about the Street Fighter Alpha series, but even those fighting-game fans who aggressively disliked it for whatever reason would have a hard time denying its impact at this point. <
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>As for this new collection, it's a fine deal for Street Fighter fans, who'll probably find that these games still have that magic touch, whatever it was that made them so fun and addictive, even after all these years.

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The Perfect Street Fighter Alpha Collection
If you were into the fighting genre, no one has to tell you what Street Fighter is, especially if you were around in the age of the Super Nintendo. After Street Fighter II came about, Capcom released a prequel to it. Street Fighter Alpha. It quickly became a huge hit. While never being as good as the original Street Fighter series, Street Fighter Alpha was still a fantastic series. Bring up younger versions of some characters, as well as having a big selection of characters. The arcade versions of these games have been ported to the console. They are fantastic ports as well. <
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>There are five games in the collection. The three original Street Fighter Alpha games, Street Fighter Alpha II Gold, and a game called Super Gem Fighter Mini-Mix, which is basically a Puzzle Fighter game. There also aren't any huge differences between Street Fighter Alpha II and Street Fighter Alpha II gold. <
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>What's unique about this collection are a couple of things. For one, it still looks beautiful. For a game as old as it is, it certainly holds itself together rather well. The character models and backgrounds are still as beautiful as ever. I'm still awe struck at the fantastic look of Street Fighter. <
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>Of course, these are the arcade versions. Not the home versions. So there might be a few differences. Only hardcore fighting fans will find them, however. Any other gamer will more than likely overlook these differences without giving too much thought. <
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>I don't have to tell you that Street Fighter Alpha is a fantastic game. The Anthology speaks for itself. The price is also pretty cheap. In other words, if you're a Stree Fighter Alpha fan, pick this collection up!

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Well this game is classic . NOW BRING ON THE MARVEL GAMES!
First off lemmee review the game: <
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>The graphics are completely 2d for those unfamiliar with this series. The 2d frames are sharp because you can display 480p for HDTVs. Also sharpness can be adjusted from 0-16 and filter can be turned on and off if you want a softer image. The individual games are each good, standing the test of time. Street Fighter Alpha is probably the worst of the bunch with music that sounds 16 bit and gameplay that doesn't feel polished. <
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>But turn it to Street Fighter Alpha 2 and you get a polished fighter with excellent sound. And this time the animations are all there from the arcade making it arcade perfect. Compared to the PSone and Saturn versions, this is version is much more satisfying. The Saturn version had much of the animation from the arcade but scratchy sound. The PSone version had better sound than the Saturn version but it was missing frames of animation making it stiff. The PS2 version is perfect with clear sound and super smooth animations. Good news is that you can get PSone version music for Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold after you pass the game. The arcade music version is not too good compared to it so this is a welcome addition. <
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>The best game in the collection is said to be Street Fighter Alpha 3. This is the ultimate version of SFA3 outclassing the PSone, Dreamcast and Saturn (Japanese import) versions. Many have said the Saturn version was the best but it had poor sound effects like many Saturn games. The PSone version had cut frames of animation and the Dreamcast version had skinny characters and poor color. The PS2 version is the ultimate version, with perfect sound, animation and brilliant colors. You can also get the hidden characters from the PSone and Dreamcast versions if you pass the game by holding onto select when entering the titles. <
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>With the success of the X-men and Spiderman movies it would be a no brainer for Capcom and Marvel to come to agreement to release Marvel Fighting Anthology for Playstation 2. These are simply the most exciting and spectacular fighting games ever created. The following games would finally be released once and for all ARCADE PERFECT: <
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>Gamers need to bring this to the attention of both companies. <
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