street fighter fans in Japan can now experience life on the wrong side of a Hadouken. FOR street fighter The VR (virtual reality) experience began location testing in Hiroshima, Japan. The trial began on February 17, 2023 and is open to the public. (THANKS, A voice!)
He VR Street Fighter the experience is formally called Street Fighter VR: The Shadaloo Improvement Project. The premise is that the player is a Shadaloo rogue working for M. Bison (Vega in Japanese). The player then goes through rounds of virtual training against Bison’s enemies, to better learn their techniques and defeat them in single combat.
Check out a promotional trailer for the game below, courtesy of YouTube channel AsciiJPNews.
Like many location-based VR setups, VR Street Fighter seems to use a PC-based headset and control rig. Players will use their controllers to fight a virtual character in first person, moving their arms to simulate punches and special moves. Ryu and Zangief are available as opponents and will use their own unique moves in battle. At one point in the video, Zangief traps the player in a Spinning Piledriver, sending their sight spinning toward the ground. A slow motion streak allows the player to aim for special landmarks on their opponent to deal damage as well. The trailer ends with the involvement of a third adversary, most likely Akuma (Gouki in Japanese).
VR Street Fighter This isn’t the first attempt to render fighting games from the perspective of a participant’s eye. In 2017, Ultra Street Fighter II released on Nintendo Switch with a mini-game mode called “Way of the Hado”. Players played it in first-person, using Joy-con controllers to mimic Ryu’s movements and fight Shadaloo’s waves of thugs.
VR Street Fighter It is available at the Capcom Plaza Hiroshima store. A second location is scheduled to open on April 4, 2023 in Toyokawa, Aichi. No international or domestic release plans have been announced. the most traditional street fighter 6 is in development and is set to release June 2, 2023 on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.