Fighting games are slowly moving into their own on mobile devices, and it's all a great deal because of the work Capcom has done. They began with Street Fighter IV, upped the ante with the fantastic Street Fighter IV: Volt, and have had a hard time topping the formula since. And with good reason: Volt does everything a mobile fighting game needs, from controls to multiplayer. With the new Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile, we had our fingers crossed that we'd see that Volt magic one more time.
Every one of us has that awesome geeky friend with all of the incredible fan paraphernalia lined across the walls. "Dang … How did you get all this crazy stuff?" we always ask. And, inevitably, the answer is always the same: they were able to snag their awesome swag at an awesome convention that we couldn't afford to go to. Rats.
Capcom has a really weird history when it comes to porting titles to mobile. For unknown reasons, it's unable to emulate past titles well (see Mega Man X and Marvel vs. Capcom 2), but its modern ports have been solid (see Street Fighter IV Volt). Luckily, Capcom's new Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile looks to be taking lessons from the latter camp.