Even discounting obvious stuff like the two movies and the two animated series, you had weird things like a pinball machine, whack-a-mole, Tiger Electronics handhelds, various toy lines (including a take on Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots), a truly bizarre comic book from Malibu Comics, several manga in Japan, valentines and even a simulator ride. Of course, the games I will be discussing in this retrospective don’t even scratch the surface of the weird licensed material Capcom stuck their fingers into during Street Fighter II’s heyday. Games that Capcom outright acknowledged were farmed out to other developers with vastly different results, both mechanically and in their overall reception.
Of course, you’d think I’d have gotten my fill with the first Street Fighter retrospective article – I covered Final Fight, Street Fighter 2010 and even Avenger, an arcade game that predated the original Street Fighter – but there were a couple of games that have still managed to pop into my mind. However, even when I was outlining this project from the get-go, I knew that I wanted to explore some of the more obscure titles in the Street Fighter franchise. While hardcore Street Fighter fans may find this a worthy addition to their fighting library, the majority of gamers will simply find this more of the same.With every game in the recent Street Fighter 30 th Anniversary Collection covered in this series of retrospectives, the obvious route for continuing it would be to go straight into the modern releases. With more powerful hardware lurking, it'd be nice to see this series make some significant strides. Street Fighter EX 2 is certainly worth playing, but not necessarily worth buying.
Anyone else used to the joys of games like Tekken 3 or Rival Schools will find the slow 2D game-play of SFEX2 suffocating. On the plus side, old-school characters like Blanka and Dhalsim make a 3D comeback, so fans of Street Fighter 2 and all of its spurious sequels will have a field day. Unfortunately, while the game plays much smoother than the slowdown-laden import-only SFEX3 for PS2, it's still sluggish, with flat, static backgrounds that make the characters look like they're fighting at the school play, and "features" some of the most horrendous loading times seen on the PlayStation. Aside from the addition of the "excel" meter and a couple other minor alterations, this is the same Street Fighter you've come to know and love. While the number of characters has increased to much greater proportions, the gameplay remains largely the same. A couple years pass by and the inevitable sequel arrives. When the first Street Fighter EX was released, everyone sighed a breath of relief that Capcom had finally taken the series out of the 2D realm.
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