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Street Fighter II Available on XBLA

With the Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays continuing, Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting had finally released on the Xbox Live Marketplace earlier this morning. Street Fighter II, out of all other announced XBLA titles, had been one of the more anticipated games. It’ll cost players 800 Marketplace points ($10) in order to download the game.

Last month, Microsoft announced this title along with releasing titles to the Xbox Live Arcade including: Frogger, Galaga, Cloning Clyde. The next title will be Pac-man.

Online Multiplayer Mode â€“ The game has both Ranked matches and Player matches, including the 4-player Quarter Match option.

Quarter Match â€“ entirely new mode for Xbox Live Arcade which is a spectator-based system as a tribute to the arcade roots, allowing online competitors (2 competitors and up to 2 spectators) to use a â€œvirtual quarterâ€ to â€œbuy intoâ€ heated two player matches

Arcade Mode â€“ simulates the single-player experience where gamers must work their way through a ladder of opponents until they face off against the final boss

Vs. Mode â€“ allows two friends to select characters and battle it out

Fully customizable controls â€“ players can map attacks to any of the main buttons and have the choice to map all three punches and/or all three kicks to a single button which simplifies complex moves

Comprehensive leaderboards â€“ tracks overall and monthly best players using a point based system as well as rankings based on who is the best using each game character and most consecutive winning streaks

Achievements â€“ complete 12 challenging offline and online objectives and earn your Achievements

Check back for a full review of Street Fight II: Hyper Fighting and future XBLA titles to come.

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