Alternatively, Tekken’s team suffers from some balancing woes, with both powerhouses Bryan and Lei routinely wiping the floor with competitors.

Individually, each of Capcom’s combatants offers a reasonable balance strengths and weaknesses, although Blanka’s Rolling Attack (aka The Jungle Wheel) still seems a bit slow and opens up the attacker for reprisal. With the content in place, Street Fighter X Tekken offers a pleasing, varied selection of pugilists.Īs expected, the Street Fighter characters blend in fairly seamlessly.

Likewise, the Tekken line-up is bolstered by competitors throughout series history, with Jack-X, Lei Wulong, Bryan Fury, Christie Monteiro, Alisa Bosconovitch and Lars Alexandersson joining the fracas. The Street Fighter team is augmented by franchise favorite Blanka, Final Fight’s Cody and Guy, Third Strike’s oft overlooked Dudley and Elena and Alpha’s Sakura. Available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 for twenty dollars, the DLC adds six fighters to both the Capcom and Namco camps, bringing the game’s total roster to fifty characters. As an additional goodwill effort, the company announced that preliminary purchasers of Street Fighter X Tekken for the PS Vita will receive a free code for the ancillary characters as well as a bonus perk of additional extra costumes for the portable iteration.Ĭoinciding with the release the 1.06 patch for Street Fighter X Tekken which remedies a number of niggling imbalances- from nerfing dominating fighters such as Ryu, Ken, and Akuma, to tweaking the auto-throw and auto-block gems, Capcom has decided to release the character pack early. Capcom responded that the decision was made to “ save hard drive space” and to preserve continuity between online competitors who have the purchased the DLC and those who haven’t. When players discovered the publisher had placed a roster of twelve additional fighters on the game disk, an uproar ensued across message boards, leading to a number of players filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Although fighting game enthusiasts are known to be an outspoken crowd, Capcom’s handling of paid supplemental content for Street Fighter X Tekken has proven to be remarkably contentious.

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