#Street fighter x tekken pc series#

As it is, almost half of the online fights I have degenerate into watching my poor saps get pummelled in the corner. The chaining aspect of Street Fighter X Tekken's system is implemented with a huge amount of skill, but it badly needed the brakes put on it beyond a certain stage. It doesn't sound like fun because it's not fun. Not only that, but this system is the basis of tagging in and out properly вЂ“ which we'll come to in a second. For example, light kick into medium punch into heavy kick will produce a combo using any character, providing you get the timing right.

This finds its way into X Tekken in a brilliant way, one of the game's shining successes, as the ability to combo from any low-damage attack into any higher-damage attack.

In Tekken things are a bit messier: there are fixed high-damage combos, but it's possible to interject other moves, especially when your opponent's not fighting back.

#Street fighter x tekken pc series#

There, a snappy input pulls off a devastatingly smooth series of moves. It's a more fluid system than Street Fighter's more rigid hierarchy of combos. Keeping your opponent in the air can be tricky, but it's always possible to tag a few extra hits on. In Tekken, when an opponent has been hit and is in mid-air, you can follow-up with attacks that can't be blocked and will end only when that victim hits the ground. The second is the importance of 'juggling'. The first is that in Tekken each button maps to a specific limb on the fighter, as opposed to Street Fighter's six-button system of light, medium and heavy punches and kicks. There are two key differences, which Street Fighter X Tekken has a real go at bringing together. Most Street Fighter games have eventually found their way to the PC, but we've been largely spared the winding history of Tekken.