Street Fighter II is the name of this slot, and its title will tell you the video game on which it was based. With the rights to the Street Fighter II franchise acquired from Capcom, Cryptologic has created a game that many have played while they were young. Just like the name suggests, this is a game where fighters go against each other, just like they did in Mortal Kombat later on. You get to choose which street fighter you want to be, with the enemy staying the same one at all times, Bison.
Coming from Cryptologic, and built under an official license, Street Fighter II gives you 5 reels & 25 bet lines. There is an impressive $100,000 jackpot on the line, while you will find along the way free spins, scatter symbols and wilds, all good features to have in a game.
Features of Street Fighter II
The scatter symbol, two wilds and free spins make up the bulk of the features offered in Street Fighter II.
The Logo scatter gets only one role, to give away instant prizes whenever at least two of them are on the reels in scattered positions. You might get only the value of your wager from two scatters, but each additional one boosts the prize further, to 5x for three symbols, 20x for four and 100x for five. Since they’re scatters, they can be anywhere on the reels.
There are two different wild symbols, but besides acting as substitutes you will find that they don’t do that much for you. The street fighter that you chose shows up on the 2nd reel, while the Bison wild is reserved for the 4th reel. The options available to you for the 2nd reel wild are Guile, Chun Li, Sagat, Ryu and Ken. On their own, the wilds do their job and they assist you in forming new combinations and awarding prizes. They’re good features to have, but they’re not nearly as powerful here as they are in other slots.
Street Fighter Feature
With your selected fighter as a wild on the 2nd reel, plus the Bison wild on the 4th, you get inside the feature game. Both reels have their wilds expand, taking over all three positions available on them. The other three reels re-spin, while the 1st and 5th reels get additional Action Icons. The Action Icons appearing on the 1st reel are performed by your own fighter, while the ones from 5th reel are performed by Bison. Each action gets you a prize and at the same time it decreases the life meter of the other guy. Once one of the two characters is defeated, the feature ends.
The Action Icons that appear are Fists (the result is a punch), Boots (a kick), Fists & Boots (both a punch and a kick will be performed) and Star (the fighter uses his special action).
Betting options and jackpots
The game has the usual big betting range that so many slots use these days, with the higher limit set to $500, while the lowest one is only $0.01. It means that everyone can afford to try this game and have fun with it, while getting rewards that are always multiples of the wagers they’re making per line. With 25 lines and coins of up to $20, it’s no wonder that you can get to $500, but you’re not obligated to do so.
Even with the top jackpot being worth only 5,000 coins, you can still get to $100,000 cash in value, but only if the right coins are used, and $500 is not a small investment to make.
Design and symbols
The design looks somewhat dated, understandable if you consider the time when this game first came out. Take a closer look at its characters, and you will find them to be detailed enough, even for today. You get the Bison villain, along with five different fighters that you can play as against him. This choice is made at the beginning and that character becomes the wild symbol.
Symbols: Your Fighter and Bison (wild symbols), Logo (scatter, 100x the wager), Weapon and Mask (5,000x), Boxing Gloves (3,000x), Skulls (1,000x), Spikes (500x), Ace (250x), King (250x), Queen (200x), Jack (200x), 10 (100x) and 9 (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
It’s obviously a game to be played by the fans of the Street Fighter franchise, especially the earlier titles released in it. It does well when it comes to prizes and features though, so it might be a good fit for anyone that enjoys video games.
Street Fighter II, The Video Game
The original Street Fighter II was released in 1991 by Capcom, its original developer. It was an arcade game that introduced its players into the world of fighting, with special moves, with various playable characters that could be chosen and with configurations that involved the use of six buttons. It’s considered by some as being responsible for the success of the fighting games in that period. There were millions of copies sold, and they were ported to all kinds of platforms, from SNES, to Commodore, Game Boy, Playstation 2, Xbox and so on.
This Street Fighter II slot is offered by all online casinos with Cryptologic software, playable either in practice or in real money mode.
