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Over the course of last week and this one, we're bringing you our pick of the games of the generation. Today it's the turn of Street Fighter 4, Capcom's masterly revival that resuscitated a dying genre when it launched in 2008. 2009. It had been 10 long years since a brand new Street Fighter had been released, for whatever reason: too hardcore, too niche, or, as many believed, Capcom had milked its cash cow so violently for so long that all that remained was a shrivelled, six-button corpse.
We dared to hope Street Fighter 4 would revitalise what had become a distant, stand-offish series. That's all we were asking for. That's all we expected. That, for Street Fighter fans the world over, would have been enough.
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