More Super Street Fighter IV details confirmed!

Ok, so any self confessed Street Fighter fan may know that there has been a mass of Internet speculation about what will and what will not make it into the latest update for the franchise due out next year. It would seem that in response to this Capcom have decided to make a few of these leaked details official right off the back of their Street Fighter showing in France earlier this week. Capcom have been adamant that they are listening to the community for all the updates in this “SUPER” version of the game and in doing so have released a trailer showing off the new additions.

The trailer (which can be seen after the jump!) shows of three new online modes by the name of “Endless battle”, team play, replay channel(s) and a new type of tournament mode that all come with thier own set of features.

Endless battle (Quarter match mode)

• The basic premise for this game type is winner stays on while loses go to the back of the queue and await their turn. Nothing extravagant here but a welcomed addition and something fans have been asking for.
• Ability to spectate and chit chat over PSN or Xbox-Live with everyone in the room while not battling.
• 8 player maximum.

Team Play

• This mode is for up to 8 players broken into 2 teams: Red and Blue team (Halo anybody?).
• Players can manually set up teams or players can be automatically split into 2 teams based on their Player Points. Even if Player Points of individual players are uneven, the teams that are automatically generated will try to produce a combined level for both teams which is as even as possible.
• Once teams are decided, you can decide the order in which the players on a team will take their turns. You can also let the game automatically decide the order.
• You can create Team matchups in any combination of 8 players! You can do 2 on 2, 3 on 3, or 4 on 4 for even matchups. However, you can also do mis-matched teams where 1 can face 7, 2 can face 6, and so forth.
• You can use the Arcade Request feature for this mode. You can play in arcade mode until the room is filled.
• Spectating and voice chat are also available in this mode.
• You can invite specific players to be on your team.

New Tournament Mode

• Recruit up to 8 players and hold your own tournaments!
• Spectate the other players’ matches!
• Voice chat! (with 9 people, including the tournament organizer)
• Save replays, even from matches where you were only a spectator!
• Visual tournament brackets and results!
• Award tournament winners with unique titles!

And finally there is the replay channel which will be split up into many different categories and if the new trailer is to be believed then the channel will look something like the onlive interface (how cool would that be eh?!). Apparently this is the mode that the SF team have been working most diligently on and will allow you to search for videos via category (channels) and save an almost limitless amount to your replay list (about time!) or simply sit in a group with your Xbox-Live buddies and chat about that epic ultra set-up you just witnessed. The guys at the Super Street Fighter IV blog had this to say:

This is the mode that Taguchi and his engineers have been working on harder than anything else!

You’ve all been requesting “We want to watch match replays!”, and here is our response – a new ground-breaking feature following the Arcade Request, a mode where you can watch match replays with (almost) no limits!

As you’re fighting, round up a collection of replays. Afterwards, watch them with one hand in your bag of potato chips, just as if you’re watching TV.

In this mode, there are several different channels, so if you feel like “I just want to see matches with boss characters!” or “I just want to see matches with the new characters!” you can narrow down your search to whatever you want to watch. In addition, you can save your favourite replays to your “My list” channel and just watch those.

The “My list” is just for you… but the replays in all other channels will be shared with all the players across the world, so please enjoy watching them together while voice chatting!

It all sounds pretty exciting to me and you can see that Capcom are trying to make this update worth every penny even if some of the features should of been included in the original title. Hopefully these features and the yet to be announced addition 5 new characters (on top of the 3 already announced characters) will appease the nay sayer’s but for now have a peak at the trailer and let us know your opinions.