These challenges will start out simple, such as winning a short streak or getting a single perfect, but as they are completed, they level up, becoming more and more challenging the more the player completes. If you happen to be in a non-widescreen aspect ratio, you will see 'Dynamic Challenges' in the sides of the screen. Honestly, IвЂ™ll probably keep the sprites unfiltered, but the filters both seem pretty nice, if youвЂ™re into that sort of thing. I spent most of my time on Crisp, which gave the sprites kind of a painted look. Honestly, IвЂ™m partial to scanlines, but if you like your sprites looking smooth, there are also a two sprite filters in the game, Crisp and Smooth. You can even add scanlines to it to further the arcade feel.

You can adjust display options from the in-game menu for switching from a standard 4:3 aspect ratio, to a wide one, to one thatвЂ™s even further stretched to fill the whole screen, and (my personal favorite), one that bows the screen to look like an arcade cabinet monitor. There are a ton of options that can be fiddled with mid-round, too. TheyвЂ™ve also finally added a random select option to the game, mapped to the start button.

You can now press Select (or Back, if the 360 is your preferred console) on the character select screen and map your buttons on the fly (which, from experience, is really helpful if you keep have two friends over and one prefers a pad and the other an arcade stick and they keep swapping with each other). Now that weвЂ™re on the subject of the character select screen, Capcom has taken one of my favorite features from BlazBlue: Continuum Shift and added it to 3rd Strike Online. For the character select screen, Capcom has taken the original artwork and re-scanned it, so it looks incredibly crisp. If youвЂ™re at all worried that ArtgermвЂ™s new stuff would replace Daigo IkenoвЂ™s artwork, donвЂ™t be. ItвЂ™s a totally unnecessary, but cool little addition indicative of the love that Capcom and Iron Galaxy have poured into this new edition.

Even cooler is that the game looks at your play history to give your most-used characters a higher chance of being in the background. However, even without being able to test the titular feature on the show floor, the changes and additions that have been made to 3rd Strike are impressive.ДЇrom the main menu screen alone, itвЂ™s apparent that Capcom went all out on this overhaul, commissioning new character art from >Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau, which is randomly chosen to add a bit of flavor to the main menu whenever it is opened. Associate producer, Derek Neal, says that the game is 'everything that the community wants,' particularly stressing that that included implementation of the very popular GGPO netcode. Capcom has made a big deal about how much time, effort, and cash theyвЂ™ve been pouring into the development of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition, and after my hands-on with the game, I can tell why.

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