Welcome to VC Weekly, N-Europe's guide to the wonderful world of Nintendo's download service. Written by Sam C Gittins.

A singular title is bestowed upon us once more and an update of an existing game at that but in this instance it's a most welcome one for fans of the series in particular. Anyway enough from me and on with the erm game!

Available for download this week we have...

• Super Street Fighter II

Points: 800
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Capcom
Released: 1993
System: SNES

Yes it's another incarnation of the legendary Street Fighter II but it's perhaps the most welcome edition of the game to hit the Virtual Console since the hugely popular Turbo variant. And while this version loses much of the aforementioned versions speed that many players have no doubt become accustomed to it manages to more than make up for it due to the huge wealth of substantial and sustainable additions that it brings to the table.

So what has this version got that Turbo hasn't? Well firstly we have a total of four new contenders to the throne comprising of; Cammy, Fei Long, DeeJay and T.Hawk. While they are all welcome additions the latter three seem to pale into relative insignificance when compared to the now legendary Cammy who is arguably the best of the bunch.

Familiar fighters now have modified move-sets such as the addition of Ryu's flaming-flying-fireball and Ken's flaming-dragon-punch; some of the identical moves between these two characters now deal out different amounts of damage which equates to an actual accumulative difference to the two firm fan favourite fighters thats more noticeable in this version than in the predecessors.

Visuals are vastly the same overall with only a few new backgrounds and some updated character animations and although it may not show all the extra detail that can be seen in the original arcade version it's still as visually vivid as ever and uses the SNES hardware well as does the extra voice samples for each of the characters which were newly added to this version.

Essentially it's a case of more of the same here which is no bad thing considering the cosmetic and structural improvements that have been added not to mention a host of multiplayer modes most notably including an exceptional elimination tournament. The only let down of this version is that it's slower than the previously released Turbo counterpart; this was later rectified by the release of Super Street Fighter II Turbo which was never converted to any 16-bit console at the time so for the time being if you can live with the reduction in speed then this version is truly as good as it gets.

Verdict : Another superb Street Fighter II successor.

Thats it for another installment of VC Weekly which will return again soon. So until then, enjoy the rest of the week and Game On!

Sam Gittins
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