And also: GUILE!
Guile has been my main in the overwhelming majority of the Street Fighter games. The first time I picked him up in Street Fighter II I knew that his moveset, with Sonic Booms, Blades, and his awesome Somersault Kick, was the perfect combination of close and short-range combat tools. In fact he made me an eternal fighting game fan, maybe mostly because of that wild-ass haircut.
Now, Guile is back in the next iteration of Street Fighter, SF6, and he’s bringing along his classic moveset too. I can’t wait! Though his appearance in the game was leaked alongside the majority of the roster soon after the game was featured in Sony’s most recent State of Play, this is the first time we’re actually seeing him in action.
Here’s some of the moveset, via Capcom:
- Somersault Kick (Flash Kick) – The classic backflip kick
- Sonic Boom – Guile’s main projectile ability
- Sonic Blade – A stationary aerial slash
- Sonic Hurricane – A massive aerial slash that lands directly ahead or diagonally upwards
- Solid Puncher – Fires a flurry of small Sonic Boom projectiles
- Crossfire Somersault – A brand new Super Art that fires a massive aerial slash followed by a devastating Somersault Kick
But you’d be best to understand that perhaps the bigger news isn’t that Guile is in the game, but that the game itself will now include crossplay between platforms, and rollback netcode to help make the fighting that much more stable and fluid. Capcom confirmed the news to Press in attendance at the Summer Game Fest in-person play sessions this week.
Woohoo!
Street Fighter 6 is set to debut in 2023 on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms.
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