Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Producers(s)	Midori Yuasa
Series	Street Fighter
Engine	RE Engine
Platform(s)	PlayStation 5 PlayStation 4 Microsoft Windows Xbox Series X/S Arcade (Taito)
Release date	Consoles June 2, 2023 Arcade December 14, 2023
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player multiplayer
Input methods	8-way joystick 8 buttons

Street Fighter 6 (ストリートファイター6, Sutorīto Faitā 6^?), (alternatively spelled Street Fighter VI) is the seventh main installment in the Street Fighter series. It was announced on February 21st, 2022. The game was released on June 2nd, 2023 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S and PC via Steam. A "Type Arcade" version was confirmed during The Game Awards 2022, and was released on December 14, 2023 in Japan-only.

Summary

"Street Fighter 6, the next game in the iconic series, will release in 2023! Take part in the Fighting Ground, which focuses on the classic fighting game experience with modes from previous games in the series. Two new modes will be available alongside: World Tour, an immersive single-player story experience, and Battle Hub, which will further expand the scope of player communication and engagement. Your Moment. Your Fight."

—source unknown

Gameplay

These paragraphs are an excerpt from Street Fighter 6 § Gameplay on Wikipedia.

Street Fighter 6 features three overarching game modes: Fighting Ground, World Tour, and Battle Hub. Fighting Ground contains local and online versus battles as well as training and arcade modes, all featuring similar 2D fighting gameplay to the previous games in the series, in which two fighters use a variety of attacks and special abilities to knock out their opponent. World Tour is a single-player story mode with RPG-like mechanics, featuring a customizable player avatar exploring 3D environments with action-adventure gameplay. Battle Hub acts as an online lobby mode, using customizable player avatars from the World Tour mode with features such as taking part in Avatar Battles, using the DJ Booth, playing classic games in the Game Center, etc., with other features set to be revealed in the future.

The main fighting gameplay of Street Fighter 6 is based around the Drive Gauge, a system designed to encourage player creativity. The gauge can be used for five different techniques, requiring players to choose which to prioritize. Most of the Drive Gauge's mechanics are based on previously existing mechanics from previous Street Fighter mainline games, such as Parry, Focus Attack, EX move, etc. The game features three control types: the "classic" control scheme has a six-button layout that functions similarly to previous entries, the "modern" control scheme assigns special moves to a single button combined with a directional input, and the "dynamic" control scheme, which is only allowed in certain parts in the Fighting Ground mode, but is not allowed in online battles, uses a single button auto attack layout, based on what range is performed.

The use of multiple super combos returns from the Street Fighter Alpha sub-series, also counting the Ultra Combo W variant from Ultra Street Fighter IV. However, each character only has three super combos based on their respective level gauge. For example, Ryu's Shinku Hadoken, Shin Hashogeki and Shin Shoryuken can only be used at Level 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

A real-time commentary system is a brand new feature in Street Fighter 6, where English and/or Japanese play-by-play and color commentators watch the action in real-time, giving it a more tournament-style feel. It'll feature eight different commentators, four of each of the two commentary types: play-by-play commentary and color color commentary. Aru, Jeremy "Vicious" Lopez, Steve "TastySteve" Scott, and Kosuke Hiraiwa will be the four play-by-play commentators, while Demon Kakka, Thea Trindad / Zelina Vega, James "jchensor" Chen, and Hikaru Takahashi will be the four color commentators.

The Drive Gauge plays a large role in Street Fighter 6.

Drive Gauge

The major new feature of Street Fighter 6's gameplay revolves around the "Drive" system -- a bar below the characters' vitality meters that enable the use of several abilities. Each fighter starts with 6 Drive bars, which deplete when using Drive abilities, blocking hits, or being hit by a Punish Counter, Drive Impact, or Supers. The Drive gauge replenishes over time after a brief moment out of combat, or when hitting opponents (regardless of blocking).

Drive abilities

• Drive Impact: A forward-moving heavy attack that has 2 hits of armor and launches opponents on hit (similar to a Focus Attack), costing the attacker one bar off of the Drive Gauge. The user takes grey health damage for any attack armored which can recover over time, like blocked damage in Street Fighter V. If it armors an attack and hits (or causes a Punish Counter), Drive Impact causes a crumple with a dramatic camera zoom and colorful splashes of paint based off of the fighter's signature colors; if it doesn't armor an attack, it will simply cause a knockdown. Against blocking opponents, it will deplete part of their Drive gauge and cause them to stumble backwards. If the stumbling opponent is against a wall, it causes a Crush, causing them to slide down the wall for a follow up; aerial opponents are vulnerable for longer since they have to land on the ground. Crushing a fighter in Burnout causes stun. Drive Impacts have high startup and can be reacted to, and they can be countered with another Drive Impact, a throw, or a Drive Parry. If two Drive Impacts clash, they will cancel each other out.
• Drive Parry: A parry stance, which slowly reduces the Drive gauge while it's active. Costs half a Drive bar. Parrying incoming attacks replenishes the Drive meter, and it also automatically parries multi hit moves while in effect. Drive Parries have recovery frames, and parrying too early causes a normal block, while still costing half a Drive bar. Taking a hit during the startup and recovery of Drive Parry causes the user to suffer a Punish Counter, though they are still able to block normally during recovery. A Perfect Parry can be performed if an attack is parried within the first two frames of a Drive Parry's startup, causing a dramatic slowdown and paint effects, and a faster recovery that can allow the fighter to cause a Punish Counter to the opponent. They can also be performed against projectiles, with a fixed 11 frames of recovery on success. Punish Counters from Perfect Parries are scaled at 50% damage.
• Drive Reversal: Akin to an Alpha Counter or V-Reversal -- the user blocks an incoming strike and retaliates with a low damage move. Costs 2 Drive bars. Damage from a Drive Reversal causes grey damage that can recover over time.
• Drive Rush: A fast, green-tinted dash that can be performed out of either a Drive Parry or a cancelable normal strike. Costs 1 Drive bar if performed out of a Drive Rush, and 3 Drive bars if performed out of a cancelable normal move. Attacks performed out of a Drive Rush have 4 frames of advantage on block and hit, allowing for better pressure and new combo options at the cost of half a full Drive Gauge.
• Overdrive: The replacement for EX Special moves in previous Street Fighter titles. An enhanced special attack that adds hits or improves the properties of its base move, such as invincibility, more damage, or leading to a juggle state.

Burnout

When the Drive gauge is empty, the fighter is left in a "Burnout" state, which will change their stance to an exhausted version and cause them to glow grey. While in Burnout, the Drive Gauge will restore over time or when successfully landing attacks. However, the fighter's defensive abilities are severely impeded:

• Drive abilities cannot be used, removing almost all escape options.
• Special Attacks cause non-grey chip damage on block, which can KO.
• Drive Impacts against a wall causes stun. This is the only way to cause stun, as the stun gauge has been removed. Following a stun, the Drive Gauge is fully restored.
• A fighter in Burnout sustains an extra four frames of block stun from every blocked attack, turning previously unsafe block strings into inescapable ones.

Mechanics

Multiple mechanics have been adjusted or removed entirely. The Stun Gauge has been removed, and opponents can only get stunned if wall crushed while in the burnout state. Grey damage no longer occurs when a fighter takes hits while blocking, and only occurs when the fighter is hit by a Drive Reversal, or armors an attack with a Drive Impact. The Drive Gauge replaces the EX gauge for identical Overdrive moves, and is also used for all defensive abilities that previously required the V-Gauge (V-Reversal, V-Shift); additionally, some characters gain V-Trigger like modes with their Level 2 supers. Thus, both the EX and V gauges have been removed. In addition, the characters have their own character-related icons on the UI for their unique special abilities (eg. Ryu's enhanced Hado power after Denjin Charge, Jamie's Drink Level, or Kimberly's stocked Shuriken Bombs).

A new type of Counter Hit has been implemented, known as Punish Counters, which are achieved after hitting an attack during its recovery frames. Punish Counters deplete part of the opponent's Drive Gauge, gain an extra four frames of advantage on hit, and certain attacks gain other properties similar to Crush Counters. Throws also gain a massive 70% damage bonus.

Characters in Street Fighter 6 have three super moves each, once again being called Super Arts. Super Gauges are kept as stocks, up to a maximum of three. Supers only require as many gauges as the levels state (eg. Level 2 requires 2 full super gauges), and any remaining gauges are kept. Super Art Cancels vary depending on their level. This marks the return of multiple supers during gameplay since it was first utilized in the Street Fighter Alpha series, and being the third game to do so since the multiple Super Combo usage mechanic was last utilized in Ultra Street Fighter IV' "Ultra Combo W" variant.

• Level 1: Strong non-cinematic attacks with brief invincibility (eg. Ken's Dragonlash Flame). Most projectile supers from Street Fighter V have been turned into Level 1 supers (eg. Ryu's Shinku Hadoken or Guile's Sonic Hurricane). Level 1 are only cancelable from normal attacks and some Unique Attacks.
• Level 2: Primarily designed for utility and tend to have unique properties, ranging from combo enders (eg. Luke's Eraser) to temporary buffs (similar to V-Triggers), which turn the super gauge into a timer (eg. Juri's Feng Shui Engine). Level 2s are cancelable from normal or Overdrive attacks.
• Level 3: The fighter's strongest attack, always requires landing a melee strike, and cause a lengthy cinematic on hit. Level 3s can be canceled from Special Attacks. When a character's vitality is at 25% (yellow health), the Level 3 Super Art changes to a Critical Art, which is identical to a Level 3 but has a unique activation line, along with an extended animation or altered visuals which causes them to do an additional 500 damage.

Controls

A simplified "Modern" control scheme, somewhat similar to Marvel vs. Capcom 3, is available as an optional alternative to the standard six-button scheme (known as "Classic" in-game) to ease players into the game. Punch and kick attack strengths are removed and players play with three generic "Attack" buttons of varying strength and a Special Move button to perform special attacks, which are performed by using the Special Move button in conjunction with a directional input. Techniques such as Drive Parries and Drive Impact are performed with a single button press and a combo assist button allows players to easily string attacks together when held down. However, the input mechanics of the specials and supers being in simplified buttons dated back in Ryu and Chun-Li's guest appearance in Lionsgate's Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. The game will also have another new simplified 3-button control scheme called "Dynamic" as a new local-only control option which is meant to "help button mashers excel", that is limited to certain modes in Fighting Ground and cannot be used in online matches. By pressing one of the three Auto-Attack buttons, the character will automatically perform attacks and combos based on the position relevant to the opponent. Taunts will also return for characters to use in Street Fighter 6 with only three taunts for each character, as well as alternate character colors and costumes.

Aesthetics, Game UI and Modes

The face off section of Street Fighter 6.

The VS screen cutscene for this game (which can be skipped) now shows unique information for each character chosen before the battles as they enter the stage, and all characters have two versions of their intro walk animations that are used depending on if the character is chosen by Player 1 or Player 2. It also introduces the "Game Face" feature to it, which allows a character to have one of four different facial emotions and expressions by pressing the controller's directional buttons, first dated back in Bandai Namco's Soulcalibur II until Soulcalibur III. The pre-fight intro cutscenes before the first round of the match are now shortened down to 2 seconds, compared to the previous games; Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V. All characters have a unique victory animation for them on the Result Screen after a match, like in previous games, and also have victory animations after a round based on how much health they have lost: 0% (Perfect KO), ~80%, Normal and Critical Health (25%). In Fighting Ground, players will be able to choose from using the Stage Battle theme of the chosen stage, the theme song for Player 1 or Player 2's chosen character, or randomly selecting from the three options for the match. Character Damage has the characters portray battle damage on their bodies, faces, and clothing during the course of battle.

The game will feature an in-game commentary feature, a series first, as well as online rollback netcode and cross-play. Street Fighter 6 also runs on Capcom's RE Engine, the realistic game engine that was previously used in their recent games such as Resident Evil VII, Devil May Cry 5, and Monster Hunter: Rise.

In the Fighting Ground, all of the previous game modes found in Street Fighter V can be accessible, including Arcade, Versus, and Training. It also features a new battle mode called Extreme Battle, which features battles with unusual rules and gimmicks added in. In addition, the theme songs for this new mode, "Down & Out", "Back & Forth", "Smash & Grab", "Rules & Regulations", "Normal Match Rules", and "Heaven & Hell" will play in-game for battles in Extreme Battle instead of the stage's normal Stage Battle BGM.

Story

Street Fighter 6 takes place after the events of the Street Fighter III games. From a chronological order, Street Fighter 6 is the latest title in the official timeline.

At the start of the World Tour mode, the player's created avatar enters Buckler Security, where Luke will give the player tutorial lessons as part of the "Basic Training Course". The player then engages in combat with a fighter named Bosch, who attempted to cheap shot the player beforehand. After Bosch is defeated, Luke instructs the player to leave Buckler Security and write their own story. On their adventure, they will travel the world in pursuit of true strength, while meeting up with several fighters along the way. Some of these fighters have very familiar faces and will take the player under their wing. These 'masters' will teach the avatar their personal styles to further progress them towards their goals.

Fateful Battles

In Arcade Mode, each character fights a special rival, whom they encounter in their last match. Before the match, the player is presented with a short, illustrated introductory cutscene. These cutscenes help elaborate on the relations and lore between the characters in the game's roster. In Guile's Arcade Story Mode, the first introduction scene appears after the match against his pupil Luke.

Character	Rival	Stage	Music Theme Used
A.K.I.	JP	Suval'hal Arena	"The Plunderer"
Akuma	?	?	?
Blanka	Lily	Ranger's Hut	"Diosa Del Sol"
Cammy	JP	Suval'hal Arena	"The Plunderer"
Chun-Li	Juri	Tian Hong Yuan	"ÅrachniD**"
Dee Jay	Kimberly	Metro City Downtown	"Ninjastar Pop"
Dhalsim	Lily	Thunderfoot Settlement	"Diosa Del Sol"
Ed	JP	Suval'hal Arena	"The Plunderer"
E. Honda	Manon	Fête Foraine	"Walk With Grace"
Guile	Ken	Metro City Downtown	"Spirit of the Flame"
Jamie	Luke	Metro City Downtown	"Taking Aim"
JP	Kimberly	Suval'hal Arena	"Ninjastar Pop"
Juri	Chun-Li	Tian Hong Yuan	"Not A Little Girl"
Ken	JP	Suval'hal Arena	"The Plunderer"
Kimberly	JP	Suval'hal Arena	"The Plunderer"
Lily	Dhalsim	Thunderfoot Settlement	"The Great Sunlight"
Luke	Jamie	Metro City Downtown	"Mr. Top Player"
Manon	Marisa	Colosseo	"Pankration"
Marisa	Manon	Colosseo	"Walk With Grace"
Rashid	Ryu	Genbu Temple	"Viator"
Ryu	Luke	Genbu Temple	"Taking Aim"
Zangief	Marisa	Colosseo	"Pankration"

Comic

Udon Entertainment and Capcom joined up to produce a prequel comic limited series titled, Street Fighter 6: Days of the Eclipse, which directly ties into the events of the game.

Characters

"There are fighters who travel the world over. Their fighting styles couldn't be more different. But their fists speak a universal language."

—Summary from the Limited Edition SF6 Mad Gear Box

The Character Select screen in the Fighting Ground mode of Street Fighter 6.

There are 18 fighters available at launch, with more to appear after the game's release. The first DLC season (confirmed in a SF6 Showcase) will include an additional four fighters, bringing the total to 22. Each character comes with their own theme song. Fighters who are making their playable debut in Street Fighter 6 are bolded below.

There are also a bevy of characters who make cameos and/or non-playable appearances. They are also listed below.

Playable Characters

Playable Character	Debut Game	DLC Season/Year/Base Roster	Japanese Voice Actor (Actress)	English Voice Actor (Actress)	Type	Effective Range	Ease of Use	Theme Song
A.K.I.	First appearance	1	Mutsumi Tamura	Faye Mata	Tricky	Long-Range	Hard	"Poisonous Passion"
Akuma	Super Street Fighter II Turbo	1	?	?	?	?	?	?
Blanka	Street Fighter II	Base	Yūji Ueda	Luis Bermudez	Speed	Mid-Range	Normal	"zilra zilra"
Cammy	Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers	Base	Miyuki Sawashiro	Caitlin Glass	Speed	Close-Range	Normal	"OverTrip"
Chun-Li	Street Fighter II	Base	Fumiko Orikasa	Jennie Kwan	Speed	Mid-Range	Hard	"Not A Little Girl"
Dee Jay	Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers	Base	Kenji Hamada	Zeno Robinson	Tricky	Mid-Range	Normal	"All Right!"
Dhalsim	Street Fighter II	Base	Daisuke Egawa	Keith Silverstein	Tricky	Long-Range	Hard	"The Great Sunlight"
Ed	Street Fighter IV (NPC)	1	Hiroyuki Yoshino	Edward Bosco	Tricky	Long-Range	Hard	"König oder Feigling"
E. Honda	Street Fighter II	Base	Yoshikazu Nagano	Joe Dimucci	Power	Mid-Range	Normal	"Kumadori"
Guile	Street Fighter II	Base	Hiroki Yasumoto	Ray Chase	Standard	Long-Range	Normal	"Sharpened Sonic"
Jamie	First appearance	Base	Shunsuke Takeuchi	Stephen Fu	Tricky	Mid-Range	Normal	"Mr. Top Player"
JP	First appearance	Base	Tomokazu Sugita	Wally Wingert	Tricky	Long-Range	Hard	"The Plunderer"
Juri	Super Street Fighter IV	Base	Eri Kitamura	Jessica Straus	Speed	Close-Range	Hard	"ÅrachniD**"
Ken	Street Fighter	Base	Yūji Kishi	David Matranga	Power	Mid-Range	Normal	"Spirit of the Flame"
Kimberly	First appearance	Base	Nao Tōyama	Anairis Quiñones	Speed	Mid-Range	Normal	"Ninjastar Pop"
Lily	First appearance	Base	Rie Kugimiya	Tiana Camacho	Standard	Mid-Range	Easy	"Diosa Del Sol"
Luke	Street Fighter V: Champion Edition (DLC)	Base	Tomoaki Maeno	Aleks Le	Standard	Mid-Range	Normal	"Taking Aim"
Manon	First appearance	Base	Ayaka Fukuhara	Cherami Leigh	Power	Mid-Range	Normal	"Walk With Grace"
Marisa	First appearance	Base	Mitsuki Saiga	Allegra Clark	Power	Mid-Range	Easy	"Pankration"
Rashid	Street Fighter V	1	Tarusuke Shingaki	Ian Sinclair	Tricky	Mid-Range	Hard	"The Turbulent Wind"
Ryu	Street Fighter	Base	Hiroki Takahashi	Kyle Hebert	Standard	Mid-Range	Normal	"Viator"
Zangief	Street Fighter II	Base	Kenta Miyake	Peter Beckman	Power	Close-Range	Hard	"R.E.D."

CPU-only Characters

• Alice
• Anti-NGO Organization
  • Bosch
    • Cardboard Combatant
  • Kalima
  • Rewancha
• Antler Inoki
• Azam
• Bao Bao Bro
• Blanka-chan
• Carlos Miyamoto
  • Metro Protector
• Eternity
• Fifth Suval'hal Martial Arts Tournament fighters
  • Boris Gagarin
  • Carmela
  • Gora Ndiaye
  • Lima Bien
• Gerald Golby
• Fair Libra
• Keiko Asano
• Kenichi Kakutani
• Mad Gear Gang
  • Andore Family
    • Andore Jr. I
    • Andore Jr. II
    • Andore Jr. III
    • Father Andore
    • Uncle Andore
    • Patriarch Andore
    • Andore
  • Axel
  • Elissa
  • Oliver
  • Roxy
  • S.Brett
  • S.Jay
  • Thrasher Damnd
  • Two P
• Max
• Novice League fighters
  • Wyatt
  • Lisa
  • Ernest
  • Allan
  • Veronica
• Retsu
• Rudra
• Ryan
• Sheng Long
• Somsak
• Tournament of Outlaws fighters
  • Sompong
  • Kim
  • Hazel Cruz
  • Joy
• Tracy
• Uou
• Captain Commando characters
  • Carol
• Breath of Fire characters
  • A-tur
  • Bunyan
  • Fou-Lu
  • Kahn
  • Njomo
  • Rasso
  • Rwolf
  • Stoll
  • Una
  • Won-qu

Non-playable Characters

• Adon
• Bushinryu
  • Guy
  • Maki
  • Zeku
• C. Viper
• Dan
• Dhalsim's family
  • Datta
  • Sally
• Delta Red
  • Aprile
  • Decapre
  • Enero
  • Février
  • Jianyu
  • Juni
  • März (mentioned)
  • Noembelu
  • Santamu
  • Satsuki
  • Xiayu
• Dudley
• E. G. Connor
• Elena
• Fang Fei
• Fei Long
• Gotch
• Gen
• Guile's family
  • Amy (mentioned)
  • Julia
• Kage
• Lee Brothers
  • Yang
  • Yun
• Li-Fen
• M. Bison
• Mad Gear Gang
  • Hugo
  • Abigail
  • Edi. E
• Makoto (mentioned)
• Mike Haggar (statue)
• Masters Family
  • Eliza
  • Mel
• Matsuda Family
  • Laura
  • Sean
• Neo Shadaloo
  • Baba Mwalimu
  • Cypher
  • Falke
• Sagat
• Sakura
• Samantha
• Shadaloo Four Kings knock-offs
  • Buff Balo
  • Clawdio
  • Lane Saget
• Thunderfoot Tribe
  • Juli
  • Singing Wolf
  • T. Hawk
• Yua

DLC Character Release Schedule

During a showcase for the game, the first DLC fighters were announced, despite being leaked alongside the initial cast. The first year includes three veteran fighters and a new challenger. Like the previous title, the first DLC Season/Year 1 were released just over a month after the game's launch. The names in bold are new fighters.

Year/Season 1 (2023/2024)

Release Date (s)	Character (s) Released
July 24, 2023	Rashid
September 27, 2023	A.K.I.
February 27, 2024	Ed
Spring, 2024	Akuma

Commentators

English

• Jeremy "Vicious" Lopez
• Tasty Steve
• Zelina Vega (Thea Trinidad)
• James Chen

Japanese

• Kosuke Hiraiwa
• H.E.Demon Kakka
• Hikaru Takahashi

Stages & Locations

Chun-Li & Ryu at Genbu Temple.

There are sixteen stages confirmed to appear in Street Fighter 6. In Fighting Ground, each stage has its own background theme. For online matches, Player 1 and Player 2 will both be allowed to select their preferred stage for the same match.

Most of the characters in the game get the benefit of having a designated home-stage. In Arcade Mode, those fighters who don't have a home-stage are assigned a stage that's relevant to their nationality. The exceptions are Juri and Rashid, whose home nations of South Korea and Saudi Arabia aren't represented via an official stage, and they are therefore fought in England and Nayshall respectively.

In Year 1, two DLC stages are programmed to appear in the game.

Stage	Country	DLC Season/Year/Base Stage	Associated Character(s)/Challenge(s)
Metro City Downtown	U.S.A.	Base	Kimberly, Luke, Jamie (in some Story Modes), Ken and the 'Ball Block Blitz' (Basketball parrying) bonus stage (when selected 12 stages)
The Macho Ring	U.S.A.	Base	'Make a Scrap Heap!' (Destroy the truck) bonus stage (all selected stages); Luke & E. Honda (only in their Character Introductions)
Carrier Byron Taylor	U.S.A.	Base	Guile & Luke (only in Guile's Story Mode)
Thunderfoot Settlement	Mexico	Base	Lily
Barmaley Steelworks	Russia	Base	Zangief
Bathers Beach	Jamaica	Base	Dee Jay
Ranger's Hut	Brazil	Base	Blanka
King Street	England	Base	Cammy & Juri
Fête Foraine	France	Base	Manon
Colosseo	Italy	Base	Marisa
Genbu Temple	Japan	Base	Ryu & E. Honda
Tian Hong Yuan	China	Base	Chun-Li, Jamie (in Some Story Modes), Juri (only in Chun-Li's Story Mode) & A.K.I.
Dhalsimer Temple	India	Base	Dhalsim
Old Town Market	Nayshall	Base	Rashid
Suval'hal Arena	Nayshall	Base	JP
Training Room	Unknown	Base	N/A
Ruined Lab	Unknown	1	Ed (Clones of Seth and a throne with M. Bison's hat in the background)
TBA	TBA	1	Akuma

World Tour Locations

Metro City, just one of the many locations that players will be able to explore in World Tour.

In World Tour, there are numbers of locations in each country for the player's Avatar to explore and visit. Each country has it's own set of masters that the player will meet in them. Currently, only Metro City and Nayshall are fully explorable.

Gallery Mode

The Gallery mode in Street Fighter 6 is where players can play their obtained arcade games, re-watch cutscenes from the story, see illustrations and listen to music.

Playable Game Center Games

In the Battle Hub, more than 15 classic Capcom arcade games will be playable, using the same emulation engine used in the Capcom Arcade Stadium series. They can also be played in the Gallery when they are acquired.

• Street Fighter
• Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
• Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• Street Fighter Alpha 2
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
• Final Fight
• Mega Man: The Power Battle
• Captain Commando
• Magic Sword
• Savage Bees
• Hyper Dyne Side Arms
• SonSon
• Legendary Wings
• Vulgus

Cutscenes

In Street Fighter 6, there are in-game rendered cutscenes and illustrated cutscenes (similar to the ones in Street Fighter V's Character Story mode) that advance the plot in World Tour, Fighting Ground and Battle Hub. When a cutscene has been watched for the first time, it is unlocked to be re-watched again in the Gallery.

Art

Throughout the game, there are several special illustrations to collect. These can be unlocked in the Gallery by meeting certain conditions in World Tour, and completing Arcade Mode several times with a character in the Fighting Ground.

Music Player

This is where you can listen to the game's background music. The tracklist of music not only features the music from Street Fighter 6 itself, but also music from previous games in the series, as well as music from other Capcom games and music tracks obtained from collaboration events. Certain unlocked tracks in the Music Player can be listened to while in World Tour and Training Mode, and more music can be unlocked as the player progresses in World Tour.

Promotional media

The aforementioned prequel comic book series, Street Fighter 6: Days of the Eclipse, was announced on November 9, 2022. It was released on May 5, 2023 digitally, and was released in bookstores on May 6, 2023. Another comic titled Street Fighter 6: Evolution Special, was given to people who had attended the EVO 2023 event.

Collaborations

In June 2023, it was announced at Summer Game Fest that the game will collaborate with Capcom's online TPS survival-shooting game Exoprimal as part of the latter's second Season on October 18, 2023. The collaboration includes unlockable Exosuit skins based on Ryu for Deadeye, Guile for Zephyr, and Chun-Li for Vigilant, as well as emotes based on the Hadouken, Somersault Kick, and Lightning Leg Barrage attacks, and decals, stamps, and charms that reference Street Fighter 6 and past games in the franchise. Guile and Chun-Li's suit set items are both paid DLC, while Ryu's suit set of items must be unlocked in-game by completing the Dino Survival mode several times as a reward during the collab.

On 1st July, 2023, it was announced that the game will collaborate with the manga and anime series Spy x Family to promote the latter's then-upcoming movie, Spy x Family Code: White. A short special animation by WIT Studio was released on 4th December 2023, featuring Yor and Chun-Li having a showdown in Street Fighter 6's Suval'hal Arena. The video also announced collab in-game items, which became available on January 9, 2024 with the official site and a trailer explaining the details.

On 6th August, 2023, an collaboration with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was confirmed during EVO 2023. The collaboration includes gear, emotes, Titles, stamps, in-game device wallpapers, camera frames in Photo Mode, and the ability to turn the World Tour and Battle Hub custom Avatar into one of the turtles. The collaboration also includes a cover of the 1987 TV series's theme song done by Capcom's in-house band CAP-JAMS and sung by Luke's English voice actor Aleks Le.

A collab with anime and manga series Baki the Grappleris also planned to appear in the future to celebrate the series' 30th Anniversary, with Avatar recipes being released in September which show how to make some of the characters from the series. In addition, special artwork of Ryu and Baki was created for this collab. On December 2023, Capcom revealed a bundle based on the collab to use in the Battle Hub and World Tour. Included inside is 12 stickers to use in messages and photos as well as six frames pulled from manga panels, and titles for the player profile. This bundle will be available to use until January 8, 2024.

Gallery

Images

Promotional Main Art

An early development logo for Street Fighter 6.

James Chen & Tasty Steve. Two of the many guest commentators featured in the game.

Main image.

Artwork of the 18 fighters of the game's launch roster from the opening movie of the game's World Tour mode.

A series of created fighters featured in the game's World Tour mode.

Characters' Promotional Art

A.K.I.

Akuma ss01.jpg

Akuma

Blanka

Cammy

Chun-Li

Dee Jay

Dhalsim

Ed

E. Honda

Guile

Jamie

JP

Juri

Ken

Kimberly

Lily

Luke

Manon

Marisa

Rashid

Ryu

Zangief

In-game screenshots

Blanka

E. Honda vs. Guile

Dhalsim

Juri

Ken vs. Ryu

Kimberly

Videos

Street Fighter 6 - State of Play June 2022 Announce Trailer - PS5 & PS4 Games

Street Fighter 6 - Teaser Trailer

Street Fighter 6 - Real Time Commentary Feature Trailer

Vicious and Aru as the first SF6 guest commentators.

Street Fighter 6 - Real Time Commentary Feature - PS5 & PS4 Games

New commentators: Industry veteran Kosuke Hiraiwa and singer H.E.Demon Kakka.

Street Fighter 6 - Thea Trinidad Real Time Commentary Feature - PS5 & PS4 Games

Zelina Vega guest stars as a commentator for Street Fighter 6.

Street Fighter 6 - Hikaru Takahashi - Real Time Commentary Feature

Hikaru Takahashi as the last commentator.

Trivia

Ryu's early development design shown in the game's first teaser trailer.

• In the game's February 21, 2022 teaser trailer, Ryu did not wear his kasaya (Buddhist robe) on his body. This was considered as a early design for him until his final design was finished. The same teaser trailer also appears in the Gallery as a bonus cutscene, but the game's finalized logo is used at the end instead of the early development logo.

The Exosuit version of Ryu in the Street Fighter 6 collaboration teaser for Exoprimal.

• The beginning of the June 2023 Capcom collaboration 1 teaser for Exoprimal mimics the first 14 seconds of the February 21, 2022 teaser trailer for Street Fighter 6, but with some noticeable differences.
  • Ryu's normal look is replaced by his robotic Exosuit version for the collaboration, with his kasaya now added.
  • The light above Ryu turns on later than in the original SF6 teaser. It's projection size is a little smaller, and it's color was slightly changed.
  • Some of the camera angles were much different than the ones in the original SF6 teaser, such as the shot on Ryu's right arm at the start being zoomed out.
  • Unlike in the original SF6 teaser, there is no sweat coming out of Ryu's body due to it being an all-mechanized Exosuit. Also, at the close-up shot of his right foot, his toes do not flex in and out.
  • Ryu's arms are in a slightly different position than in the original SF6 teaser (noticeable at the shot where he is seen from the front). His eyes were closed in the original version, but for the Exoprimal variant, they are now changed to glowing blue lights inside his Exosuit.
  • Ryu's headband now moves in the wind, unlike in the original SF6 teaser (where it was somehow stuck on together) when he is seen from the front and back sides, and Luke is completely absent.

Li-Fen appears in World Tour Mode as one of the many non-playable cameos in-game.

• In the June 2022 trailer of the game, a teenage girl with a Capcom-themed jacket was seen, bearing a resemblance to Li-Fen. Takayuki Nakayama later confirmed on his Twitter account that it was indeed her. She can be fought against in World Tour, but whether she will be playable as well remains unknown.

• On the front lid of Li-Fen's laptop, several stickers can be seen (some replicas of them are also included in the Limited Edition Mad Gear Box). These include;
  • The logo for the original Street Fighter arcade game.
  • An SD Blanka-chan sticker.
  • The Channel Eternity logo.
  • A sticker of Lilith from Darkstalkers.
  • The RE Engine logo's symbol, which has a person's hand reaching for the moon.
  • A sticker representing the button combo for Guile's Flash Kick in the bottom left. Down arrow is larger to indicate charge, Up arrow, and the letter K for Kick.

• The player's Avatar can only be used in the World Tour and Battle Hub modes. Whether or not they will be playable in the Fighting Ground mode remains unknown.

• Damnd, the first boss in the original Final Fight game, is shown prominently in the trailer. A close-up of his jacket is shown, followed by a distance shot of him over a rooftop. He also appears in The Macho Ring and Metro City Downtown stages, the former alongside Retsu and Eternity, and the latter alongside fellow Mad Gear Gang members Edi. E, Andore, Jr., Poison, Axl and Two P.

In World Tour, sometimes the masters are seen in the background watching their protégé fight. For this example, Ryu appears at the Genbu Temple stage.

• Guile appears in the Carrier Byron Taylor stage when not being used by either of the players.
  • Similarly in World Tour, the masters themselves can be seen in their associated locations when they are not facing-off against the player's avatar, or being assisted for help during battles.

• Sally and Datta appear in the Dhalsimer Temple stage.

• Samantha and Blanka-chan appear in the Ranger's Hut stage, with dolls of the latter also seen in the Fête Foraine stage.

• In World Tour mode, Hugo cameo appears on a billboard with the phrase "Giant Attack" (referencing Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact) on one of the buildings in Metro City.

• Guy and Zeku make cameo appearances in Kimberly's Arcade Mode story intro appearing on posters in her room.

• M. Bison is seen in Ryu and Juri's Arcade Mode story intro artwork, despite having already been defeated by both Nash and Ryu in A Shadow Falls.

• The Twin Dragons, Yang and Yun, both cameo in Jamie's Arcade Mode story intro, given the fact that he aspires to walk in their footsteps.

• T. Hawk cameos in Lily's Arcade Mode story intro, given the fact that she wants to walk in his footsteps of becoming a legendary Thunderfoot like him.

• Sagat, Akuma, Retsu and Kage all make cameos in Ryu's Arcade Mode story intro. Retsu also appears in The Macho Ring stage in the Fighting Ground and the player's avatar can face him as an opponent in World Tour, while Akuma will be a future post-launch DLC character.

• At the bottom-left side on the wall in the Metro City Downtown stage, there is the Capcom graffiti logo that was seen in the original Street Fighter arcade game, referencing the game's attract demo scene.

The loading icon for Street Fighter 6, seen only while the game is loading it's in-game content.

• When the game is loading for an extended period of time, an icon of Ryu using his Tatsumaki Senpu Kyaku technique can be seen on the bottom-right corner of the screen.

• Like Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V, the game will have both new and returning English and Japanese voice actors to voice their respective characters, although there are several exceptions for the English version.
  • Chun-Li is now voiced by Jennie Kwan, replacing Laura Bailey.
  • Guile is now voiced by Ray Chase, replacing Travis Willingham.
  • Ken is now voiced by David Matranga, replacing Reuben Langdon.
  • Blanka is now voiced by Luis Bermudez, replacing Taliesin Jaffe.
  • Dhalsim is now voiced by Keith Silverstein, replacing Christopher Bevins.
  • Dee Jay is now voiced by Zeno Robinson, replacing Chris Cain.
    • All of the aforementioned former voice actors have voiced their respective characters in English since 2008.

• For some reason, E. Honda's English voice actor, John Snyder is now credited as Joe Dimucci.

Ryu's 10th color for Outfit 1, which will be inplemented for him in a future update.

• About the costume colors, only Ryu, Luke, Guile, Dhalsim, Blanka, E. Honda, Kimberly, Marisa, JP, Zangief, Lily and Cammy have 9 colors so far in Outfit 1. All the characters have 10 colors in all alternatives costumes (Color 2 and Color 3 for the Base Roster).
  • Chun-Li, Jamie, Ken, Juri, Dee Jay, Manon, Rashid and A.K.I. have 10 colors in all outfits.
  • In a Capcom livestream for the TGS 2023 event, it was confirmed that Ryu will receive a 10th color for Outfit 1 in an future update. It is unknown if the base roster with 9 colors in Outfit 1 will also receive a 10th color.

• In the World Tour, when the player reaches the "Mastery" phase, a small cutscene appears, with the characters talking about strength.
  • The phrases that appear in the cutscenes are written according to the nationality of the character portrayed.

• Like the original versions of Street Fighter IV (which had "THE NEXT DOOR / THE NEXT DOOR -INDESTRUCTIBLE-" by J-Pop unit EXILE as the game's theme song) and Street Fighter V (which had "Survivor" by J-Rock band MAN WITH A MISSION as the game's image song), Street Fighter 6 will have a new theme song created for the game titled "Not on the Sidelines", performed by rappers Rocco 808 and Randy Marx. The music video for the track first premiered on Rolling Stone's Twitch channel, which is produced by GRP and directed by Ross Harris, and also featured guest appearances by dancer Sumi Oshima, and graffiti artist Benny Diar.
  • Along with "Not on the Sidelines", the official image song for the Japanese version of the game is a new version of "Itoshisato Setsunasato Kokorozuyosato" from Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie titled "Itoshisato Setsunasato Kokorozuyosato 2023", performed by Ryoko Shinohara with t.komuro. The original version of the song was previously used as an insert song for the film's Japanese version, which was later used in that version of the film itself during the climax where Ryu and Ken both team up to battle M. Bison.
  • Kimberly has a vocal theme song for her Bushin Ninjastar Cypher Super Art in-game, which is performed by Vaughn Faison with additional vocals by Gabby Byrd.
  • The World Tour mode's in-game vocal theme is "All Over the World", performed by L I O, with additional vocals by Cecilia Stalin.
  • Additionally, like Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (which had "Let's Get It On" by Infinite as that game's Character Select theme song), the Stage/Character Select and VS Cinematic Theme in the Fighting Ground is "Reinvent the Game" also performed by Randy Marx.
  • The game will also have an official theme song created for the Capcom Pro Tour titled "Legend", performed by Rocco 808, Randy Marx and Jayy Starr. The music video for the track was released on December 3rd, 2023.

• As in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, the game will have a hip-hop influenced soundtrack, with Yoshiya Terayama serving as this game's lead composer. According to him, this game's soundtrack was intended to represent "a new generation for the series.". When the game's producer, Shuhei Matsumoto, was asked why his team selected hip-hop for the game's main theme, Matsumoto responded, "Whether it’s the intro of Street Fighter, the characters quoted by famous rappers, or the art you see on the streets, we're aware that Street Fighter is a perfect match for street and hip-hop culture. And with Street Fighter 6, we pushed it to the forefront, and you can feel that flavor throughout the in-game sounds as well."^{[citation needed]}

• Rather than arranging motifs, the theme songs for most of the characters are based on new compositions (except Luke's theme song; "Taking Aim", which is a new arrangement of his character theme from Street Fighter V: Champion Edition), with the concept being the characters if they appeared on the streets. Each theme uses DJ deck record scratches and male/female rapper vocal sounds, as well as the instuments of each country that both go well for each character represented.
  • For example, Ryu's SF6 theme song "Viator" and E. Honda's SF6 theme song "Kumadori" use Japanese instruments, while Jamie's theme song "Mr. Top Player" uses Asian-Chinese instuments. Terayama said: "When it comes to the music, we incorporate the culture and art of each country we represent. This may be a bit off-topic, but if you were to ask how we incorporate the artistic elements of each country into the music, the instruments and techniques used are so important because they remind us of the history and culture of each country, and we try to make that mesh with the art direction of Street Fighter 6."
  • Out of all of the other characters' theme songs in the game (which are music themes without lyrics), Ed's SF6 theme song "König oder Feigling" is the only one so far to have lyrics in it. The track was written and performed by German-born Japanese rapper Blumio.

Before the first round of the match begins, the song title of the background track playing will appear below on-screen. In this case, it's Ryu's theme song, "Viator".

• Like the Street Fighter III sub-series and Street Fighter Alpha 3, this is the third game to have official character battle themes. This is also the first game in the Street Fighter series to have the in-game UI show the title of a song before it disappears at the start of each match's first round if the stage's "Stage Battle" theme, the battle themes for Extreme Battle, or a character's theme song is used in a stage, similar to Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven series of rhythm games, in which the song title appears at the start of certain Rhythm Games and "Remixes" that use vocal theme songs in the series.

• On the character select screen, Chun-Li's pose for being unselected is a reference to her Street Fighter IV artwork by Kinu Nishimura, and Ryu's pose for being unselected is a reference to his Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character artwork. In addition, the slots for the original Street Fighter II roster of characters are positioned at the bottom, while all of the other characters' slots are above them at the top.

An example of a Lucky Emblem in the VS Screen's cinematic of Street Fighter 6.

• In most places, (such as in the Battle Hub, and during the VS Screen's cinematic) there are Lucky Emblems that are resembling the symbol of the number/roman numeral for "six" used in the game's logo.

• The open-world RPG gameplay concept of the World Tour mode in Street Fighter 6 was inspired by a similar mode concept for Street Fighter IV Flashback (that would have focused on Ryu's backstory), and the iconic film The Karate Kid was an inspiration behind some of the elements of the mode.

This footage from a Pre-Alpha version of the World Tour mode shows what the mode would have been like with Ryu as the protagonist.

• Footage of a early Pre-Alpha version of World Tour was shown in Episode 2 of Red Bull Levels with Ryu being the main character, rather than the player's avatar. The pre-alpha footage was dated back to sometime around 2019, and showed him exploring an earlier Nayshall. It had a Street Fighter V-esque look, suggesting that the mode was once intended to appear in that game, before they saved its concept for Street Fighter 6.

• This game uses a new version of the text font that was used in the staff credits of the 1994 live-action Street Fighter film.

• The front cover of the game's art book, that players receive in the SF6 Mad Gear Box, resembles that of a monthly magazine. The art book is also named as the "II Be Continued" magazine, named after the art piece that Benny Diar had made in the music video of "Not on the Sidelines" for the game.

• To promote Street Fighter 6 on January 28, 2023, there were two TV show tie-ins which references the game.
  • In WWE Royal Rumble 2023, wrestler Zelina Vega (Thea Trinidad) dressed as Juri at the event on the Women's Royal Rumble match, where she emulated some of Juri’s moves during her performance to further promote her appearance as a commentator in-game.
  • In Saturday Night Live, Michael B. Jordan hosted the January 28, 2023 episode, and appeared as one of the stars in a skit. The concept behind it is that he was one of two voice actors voicing characters for the game in English, alongside the show's regular cast member Bowen Yang. Jordan is playing the role of Ken Masters while Yang is playing Ryu. Things start with the two recording exclamations. At about the two minute mark, the two record some voiced lines. The end of the skit features some in-game footage of Ken and Ryu with Jordan and Yang’s versions of their English lines, rather than David Matranga and Kyle Hebert's lines normally heard in the actual game itself.

• This is the first main Street Fighter series game to be released for the PlayStation 5, the third game released for the PlayStation 4 after Ultra Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V, and the first to be released on an Xbox console (the Xbox Series X and Series S) since the Street Fighter IV series which were released in 2009 up until 2014 for the Xbox 360. This is also the first game since the original Street Fighter IV to not be developed by former series producer Yoshinori Ono, who left Capcom in 2020.
  • Similar to Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter 6 has a canonical prequel to the game's events, making it one of the two known main entry to have prequel tie-ins to the corresponding game entries. However, unlike Street Fighter IV prequels, which are OVAs, the Street Fighter 6 prequel is a comic based series.

• The World Tour and Battle Hub modes are similar to Dead or Alive 4's Online Mode and the short-lived Dead or Alive Online.

• The game won the award for "Best Fighting Game" at The Game Awards 2023. It was also being nominated for "Best Multiplayer Game" and "Innovation In Accessibility", though it lost to Baldur's Gate 3 and Forza Motorsport respectively.

• Inside the files of the CBT, there exists a much different and fully-functional unused version of Team Battle mode that played similarly to tag-team VS games like the Marvel Vs. Capcom series and Street Fighter X Tekken, with characters being swapped out after their teammates are KO'd without any interruptions. When a character is defeated, a unique animation plays where the second fighter leaps into the fight, while opponents that are knocked out remain present for the rest of the round. In the final game itself, Team Battle plays much closer to standard 1-vs-1 versus battles, with 1-on-1 fights per round instead.

• Two April Fools Day joke pranks related to Street Fighter 6 appeared on April 1st, 2024 on the series' Japanese X account as part of the occasion.
  • The first was a wordplay joke in collaboration with Japan's Gamagori City in Aichi Prefecture to "change" Akuma/Gouki's name to Gamaguki; and the second showed pre-versus gameplay in Fighting Ground between Chun-Li and Pom-Pom (in her mecha form) from Honkai: Star Rail.

• This is the second time Street Fighter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has a official collaboration. The franchises had previously a comic crossover published by IDW in May 2023.
  • The collaboration has received some criticism for the high prices of the TMNT skins.

External links

• Official site

• Wikipedia article

• Capcom Database article