Tekken vs. Street Fighter

Subject: Tekken vs. Street Fighter Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:18 pm

Quote :: Earlier on in the week we reported a rumour that stated that Capcom and Namco were in talks to create two Street Fighter vs. Tekken cross-franchise fighting games; one on each of the game engines, created by their respective development studios.

At a panel earlier on at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Street Fighter’s Yoshinori Ono and Tekken’s Katsuhiro Harada took the stage and confirmed that the rumours are true, well, everything except the names.

There will, as rumoured, be two separate fighting games; one built on the Street Fighter engine and another on the Tekken engine. The rumour stated that the games would be called Capcom vs. Namco and vice versa, which was slightly off, as the games are called Tekken X Street Fighter and Street Fighter X Tekken, utilising only characters from those two franchises.

Capcom were first out the blocks with their press release of the game dropping moments ago, stating that the likes of Kazuya Mishima and Nina Williams will be joining the fold, that it will be using the SSFIV engine, and will even include “Tag Team combat where players select two fighters to deliver knockout assist attacks and special combos.”

Namco are a little slower out the blocks with their press release still nowhere in sight, but expect Street Fighter characters to grace the 3D plains of the long established series.

Both games will drop sometime after the release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 next spring.

Till we get more on the two franchises, take a look at Street Fighter X Tekken’s first official trailer.