Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition is a 2.5D fighting game developed and published by Capcom. It is the first major updated version of Street Fighter V, the latest installment in the Street Fighter series of fighting games. It cost $39.99 for the standard edition, and is a free update for those who already own the original version. The game features all the original playable characters (including the DLC fighters), an Arcade Mode (which was absent in the original installment), new modes such as the Extra Battle Mode, selectable V-Triggers, as well as new visuals to the game's design. Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition was released on January 16, 2018 for PlayStation 4, PC and, unlike the original version, arcades.

Gameplay

Arcade Edition plays at its core the same as the original Street Fighter V, but with various quality of gameplay improvements and additional modes that were either heavily requested or announced, but never released.

With the release of Arcade Mode, it is currently unknown what has become of Survival Mode.

Features

• New UI: The general UI has seen various visual changes. The main menu now sports a yellow and gold palette as opposed to black and blue. The character select screen has been revamped to accommodate for extra fighters. The background of the select screen has been changed from a globe to a gold arena. The UI in fights has also gotten gold plating. The Critical Art and V-Trigger meters have been changed and the text has black borders.

• Second V-Triggers: Every returning character has received second V-Triggers (refered as "V-Trigger II", with the originals refered as "V-Trigger I") that can be selectable on the character select screen.

• Bonus Stage: The player is tasked with breaking twenty barrels as they plummet into the center of the screen from conveyer belts above. The player will also have "help" from a computer-controlled character who will keep the barrels in the center using his own move set. Final Fight enemy character Two P appear as a CPU opponent.

Modes

• Arcade Mode: The standard arcade mode that is seen in other Street Fighter games. In this installment, there are six different ladders to go through, each representing a major game in the franchise (Street Fighter I, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter III, Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V). Each one contains returning fighters sectioned into the games that they first appeared in. The player get the choice to choose the next fighter from two, a returning element from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. There are over 200 arcade endings featuring illustrations from various artists (players can head into the Gallery to find out the unlock condition for each ending). The endings range from simply completing a path to getting a "Perfect" on the bonus stage.

• Extra Battle Mode: Time exclusive challenges that allow players to fight NPCs from the first cinematic story mode, A Shadow Falls, in order to gain exclusive alternate costumes.

• Team Battle Mode: A returning mode from Ultra Street Fighter IV. A heavily customize-able mode where numerous characters in two teams are queued up in various fights and each fighter are eliminated in a queue until one team's fighters are all eliminated. Once a fighter is eliminated from one side, the next fighter in that team line-up fights the character that eliminated the first fighter.

• Gallery: A library of artwork for Street Fighter V, such as concept art and the arcade mode endings.

Characters

At launch, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition includes all twenty-eight characters from the original version of the game, including all the season one and two DLC fighters. Players who buy the retail version will get the DLC fighters for free, but players who download Arcade Edition as a free update for the original game will still have to pay for them. The season three DLC characters become available for the first time with this version; they are four frequent veterans and two new fighters, bringing the roster total to 34 fighters.

Characters	Debut
Abigail	Final Fight (boss, NPC)
Akuma	Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Alex	Street Fighter III: New Generation
Balrog	Street Fighter II
Birdie	Street Fighter
Blanka *	Street Fighter II
Cammy	Super Street Fighter II
Chun-Li	Street Fighter II
Cody *	Final Fight
Dhalsim	Street Fighter II
Ed	Street Fighter IV (NPC)
F.A.N.G	Street Fighter V
Falke *	First appearance
G *	First appearance
Guile	Street Fighter II
Ibuki	Street Fighter III: New Generation
Juri	Super Street Fighter IV
Karin	Street Fighter Alpha 3
Ken	Street Fighter
Kolin	Street Fighter III: New Generation (NPC)
Laura	Street Fighter V
M. Bison	Street Fighter II
Menat	Street Fighter V
Nash	Street Fighter Alpha
Necalli	Street Fighter V
R. Mika	Street Fighter Alpha 3
Rashid	Street Fighter V
Ryu	Street Fighter
Sagat *	Street Fighter (boss, NPC)
Sakura *	Street Fighter Alpha 2
Urien	Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact
Vega	Street Fighter II
Zangief	Street Fighter II
Zeku	Street Fighter Alpha 2 (NPC)

* Season three DLC characters.

Development

During the development of the original Street Fighter V, producer Yoshinori Ono stated that gameplay expansions and changes would not come in new updated installments like with previous Street Fighter games but rather gradually be added to the game over the long term, and Capcom stated that an Arcade Mode would be released in the future. On September 20, 2017, the UK games retailer ShopTo showed a listing for Arcade Edition.

See also

• Street Fighter V series

External Links

• Official English website

• Official Japanese website

• Capcom Fighters Network - official news and info site dedicated to Street Fighter V and the franchise in general (available on both Japanese and English)

• Wikipedia article

• Street Fighter wikia article