Arcadia
Magazine has posted a preview of this year's
sexciting SBO footage (Super Battle
Opera is a great tourney where Japan's
best-of-the-best arcade champions face
off).
It's just a
teaser (you have to buy the paper Arcadia
magazine to get more footage), but it does have a very
awesome final-match comeback from Kyabetsu Viper against
the monstrous Iyo
Dhalsim.
There's some
comparatively anti-hype Virtua Fighter after the
freak-out inducing SFIV footage. Skipping is
advised if you're feeling sleepy :P
If
you aren't keyed into the Japanese arcade scene, Arcadia
Magazine is like the New York Times of arcade
games-it's THE place to go in Japan for amazingly
in-depth and expert coverage of a large amount of titles
(and no, I don't write for them anymore!). They
also sponsor the awesome Super Battle
Opera tournament, so it's safe to say that
these guys know what's up.
SFIV wasn't really in the running for any Game of
the Year awards in the West, since it's "merely" an
arcade game right now, but in the one place on earth
where the game is in wide distribution, it's blowing
everybody away.
Street
Fighter IV won:
-GAME OF THE
YEAR
-Best
Graphics -Best Production -Best
Character (Ryu)
I'm
not sure a single game has ever been
so dominant.
And just in case you
thought SFIV was only popular with the Arcadia editors,
here is where I tell you it also won the write-in
Reader's Choice voting for best game
of the year. Beastly!
