Ono: Street Fighter 5 will bring together the events that happened between SF4 and SF3, game ships with a taste of story mode
Posted by Jonathan 'Catalyst' Grey • January 31, 2016 at 11:48 a.m. PST • Comments: 101
"Talking about each individual Street Fighter title, they all take place in their own spot on the timeline. It's not one cohesive straight line," said Capcom's Yoshinori Ono in an interview with Venture Beat.
"The concept for Street Fighter 5 is to finally bring together the events that happened between Street Fighter 4 and Street Fighter 3," he added.
Capcom had previously been mum on when exactly Street Fighter 5 took place in the series' timeline, but recent statements had cleared up this matter.
"In the timeline, it goes Alpha, then Street Fighter 2, then Street Fighter 4, then Street Fighter 3," noted Ono.
The goal is not only close the holes in the plot that existed before, but provide clarity to the franchise's extremely convoluted narrative.
"We'll bridge the gap between the events of SF4 and SF3 in the timeline. That will finally close in all the gaps and create a nice, clear story across the board," Ono said.
Just a taste
Street Fighter 5 will ship with a bit of the game's story available to play through, to give gamers an idea of what's currently happening, before the full story mode update drops in June.
"In terms of the story mode we'll have in the game on day one, on the disc, it'll serve as more of a prologue to get people immersed into the world of Street Fighter 5," Ono stated.
This taste of the plot will actually cover all 16 individual launch characters, leading up to the update that drops later in 2016.
"It [will] be a prologue for each individual character leading into the story expansion, where it's going to be this very deep, well-told story," Ono concluded.
Source: Venture Beat.
