In the latest SFIV trailer, it shows some of the gameplay for all the characters in the game so far, (not including any bosses or secret characters Capcom may come up with) as well as some of the super moves for each character.

The original eight “World Warriors” are back: Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, E. Honda, and Zangief. The new character models for all the characters look amazing. They still look a little bit like the Incredible Hulk, but the more I watch the trailers, it doesn’t bother me anymore, and they actually look well done.

Two new characters are shown in the trailer.

Chun Li won’t be the only female fighter again, and will be accompanied by C. Viper. Her fighting style reminds me of Rugal from King of the Fighters, or Kyosuke Kagami from Rival Schools, which fights predominately with their legs.

The other new fighter is Abel, who according to Capcom is “A man with no past: ABEL”.  His fighting style seems like mixed martial arts with some grappling.

Watching the trailer brings back “Old School” fighting game feel with the gritty pound at each other faces til one person is left standing. There wasn’t any 98 Hit Combos, or any 10-String Air Juggles. No False Roman Cancels or Combo Breakers here either. Just some good old attacking and blocking. Of course Capcom isn’t going to keep it just to the bare minimum, but it’s nice that they are going back to the basics.

The Street Fighter IV storyline falls between SFII and SFIII, so there is hope for more characters to make the cut still. A few characters that I would like to see are: Sakura, or a grown up version of her, Fei Long, Ibuki, Makoto, Sean, Yun, and Yang. Any of those characters would be nice, but I’m rooting for Sakura.

Although it would be hard to see Sakura without her “school girl” look, I would like to see the outcome of years of training with Ryu.

Same thing with Sean and his training with Ken (but that takes place in SFIII so no luck there). Capcom needs to hurry up! I needs my Street Fighter fix now!!