I have a VERY special treat for you today. As if the recent SF4 announcement wasn’t enough, I am bringing you an update on Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix directly from Rey, along with the very first gameplay footage of the game in action.

Hit the jump to read the update and check out the video.

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What can I say? It’s been an exciting week with the Capcom Gamer’s Day event in London. HD Remix was shown there and I’m waiting for word back from the Capcom folks that were at the event in London to see how the game was received. I’ve already seen one shot from the show on the internet.

How about the announcement of SF4? Tell me you guys aren’t stoked about that! I’m glad it’s finally announced, because it’s been a pretty hard secret to keep. I know you guys have a lot of questions about SF4, but I don’t think we’re going to be allowed to say anything about it for a while.

This week, I’m able to only get you an off-screen capture of the SFHD in action off of my camera phone. Our big and expensive capture system is currently on the fritz, and I’m not sure for how long. I hope this will do for now.

A few things I want to point out about it though:

– The HUD and fonts are very early. We haven’t done anything to jazz it up yet. So I know it looks boring now, but it’s something we’ll be working on.
– The frame rate looks very bad because the recording was taken with my cell phone’s video camera.

So, from news about our event this week that should now be making its way around the gaming news sites, I’m sure you’ve heard some new things about the title. You’ll be able to see some of those changes in the video. I think the widescreen support is very obvious. As you may remember, we weren’t planning on including any sort of widescreen support that would extend the edges of the playing field to the edge of the screen. But the community voiced that they wanted it really bad, so we decided to put it in. The mode is optional, so you can play in standard 4:3 if you want to. It’s not a stretched mode, but something similar to what’s been suggested on many forums as a widescreen option. Essentially, it’s a zoomed in mode, with a portion of the top of the screen cropped off.

You’ll also notice the new Ken level music. Again, this is an optional feature, but I am working with a bunch of talented individuals to get new music in the game. I’ll let you know who they are later as we get closer to release.

There are some other new and cool things in the video that I’ll just let you guys find for yourselves. I will say that we are playing in the new remixed mode and if you look closely, you might see some of the changes. Ryu is pretty obvious, but it’ll take some hardcore observation to see some of Ken’s changes.

I think that’s all for now. BTW, I’m playing as Ken and our Community Manger Seth is playing Ryu (on a Hori stick for the 360). Hope you guys like it!

—Rey

See the video page HERE or watch it embedded below. (It looks gorgeous, btw. Can’t wait until I can share screenshots)

—Brian