YouTube Street Fighter (PC)

We have a confession to make. If we were to compile a list of the Street Fighter games, we would miss a very important entry. Of course, we would include the four main games. We'd even mention the Alpha games! No, this game is far from well known.

YouTube Street Fighter is a game for YouTube created by director Patrick Boivin. Using SOTA Toys action figures and stop motion, it is full motion video based. When you start the game, you are asked to select an opponent. Now comes the clever part. Using the Annotations feature, you can use your mouse to click on the opponent's picture. There are only three opponents to choose from, but any more would have been too much to ask. Next comes the actual battle. The gameplay is quite different to other Street Fighter games. Firstly, you cannot move your character - the attack buttons take care of the moving for you. There are four attack buttons. Unlike the conventional controls, each button does a special attack, and all four attacks deal the same amount of damage (namely 1 of 3 HP). In terms of difficulty, the game is extremely easy. Most of the time, your opponent is standing still so you'd have to be half asleep to even take damage.

While this isn't the sort of game you'll be playing every day for the rest of your life, a lot of effort has been put into it and it shows. The concept is inspired and the animation is very well done. Though you'll go away feeling that you haven't played a proper game.

Verdict
+ Interesting concept
+ Animation is well done
- Hardly challenging
- Not enough opponents
- Far too short

5/10