Movies to Video Games Review -- Street Fighter: The Movie (PSX/SAT)

Movies To Video Games Reviews
Review #29


Street Fighter: The Movie for the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn is fully reviewed and analyzed as compared to the actual movie itself.

Feel free to comment. More movies to video games reviews coming soon.. suggestions and feedback welcome and encouraged.

To save on space and time in the video, the score tallies and descriptions of how I got to the scores are listed here instead.

They are on a 0-10 scale with 10 being the best score possible:

Story Accuracy to the Movie 4.5 out of 10
(Weird Movie Mode tries to tie things into the film with you taking on the role of Guile. But besides a few picture cap text based moments and some music here and there from the film there really isnt too much accuracy. Its just a digitized version of Street fighter and a poorer one at that..)

Music Soundtrack Accuracy to the Movies 5.5
(Some of the AVIs found within the game will indeed have the same exact music. So that is good. But that is where it ends, the stages are all generic music and background themes that have nothing to do with anything. There is a music video though from the soundtrack found on the game so that too relates well at least.

Game Difficulty 6.0
(Anyone that has played Street Fighter can jump right into this game no problem. Controls are the same as is the set up. Some of the Bison battles can be annoyingly difficult but for the most part the game wont offer too much of a challenge to the average player of Street Fighter)

Overall Fun 3.5
(The game just isnt that much fun. The Story Mode will get old fast and you can only enjoy playing a weaker port of a good game so many times in Arcade Mode. Basing a game on a bad movie version of a game is not the best idea to ever be done. The game isnt horrible but it just isnt that much fun and will get old fast especially with better Street Fighter options out there.)

Final Score: 4.25
Below Average

Category:

Gaming

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• Ken
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• Chun
• Li
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[tyranitar007]

Hey, could you maybe review Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for GC/Xbox/ps2? It really follows the movie well and it's also very fun.

[Movies2GamesReviews]

Sure I'll add it to the list of suggestions. Thanks!

[Snake0987]

A video game, based on a movie, based on a video game can never end well.

[saiyajin11]

At least it was better than The Legend of CHun Li.

[92hoai]

Hey

[LarroSTK]

Why not talk about the awful frames per minute.

[HailtotheKingg]

Great explanation of the game. Not much of a review tho.

[PubliusAfricanus]

Never sparked much interest? It's a bonafied cult classic now.

Love the song playing in the background. Very mid-'90s.

[ericspowers]

@boredstudent Agreed!!! A proper Chun-Li would of been beautiful looking but can fight and speak Cantonese and very good English. Even though Kristin Kreuk who played Chun-Li is hot in her own right, she's doesn't speak fluent Mandarin or Cantonese because she's mostly Canadian. Chun-Li's proper last name is Xiang. Not Hwang of Zang of the deSouza or Klein editions. If anyone would of played Chun-Li it would of been Brenda Song(a better fighter) .

[ericspowers]

Wrong.. No real star power? Ming-Na from Joy-Luck Club, Mulan and Stargate Universe was in this movie as well as Wes Studi from Dances with Wolves and Kylie Minogue, one of THE best pop icons in the world.

[PubliusAfricanus]

@clipsryan

It was PG-13, too. No reason she couldn't be in the outfit for the 90 seconds of screen time she gets during the final minutes.

Opportunity lost!

[PubliusAfricanus]

@boredstudent

In LOC they also spell it Xiang on the mom's tombstone.

[jlenoconel]

Bison wasn't played by Raul Julia as he had already passed by that time.

[boredstudent]

not only did they fuck the movie up but they fucked up the names too. Carlos Blanka? it's supposed to be JIMMY!!! Jimmy Blanka!! Chun-Li Zang? in that Legend of Chun-Li movie, her full name is Chun-Li Huang but that movie is another fuck-up. kinda funny how much Kylie Minogue looked like Cammy but her acting was pretty bad. I will say this though. Raul Julia was awesome as Bison when you compare his Bison to Neal McDonough (Bison in Legend of Chun-Li) they pronounced Shadaloo right too.