2. Street Fighter 5 (2016)

Cinematic Trailer

The second giant of the fighting genre, is Street Fighter, with its fifth installment being released this year. Street Fighter 5 gives you control of some great and classic characters like Ryu, Ken, and even Chun-Li. You can take control of 21 characters in all, with some new additions like Rashid and Laura.

Street Fighter 5 has a simple online presence, letting you compete in 1v1 matches and giving you the access to ranked and unranked matches. With a bumpy start in the beginning, Capcom has shaped up their online perspective of the game, and it is coming together well. They’ve made matchmaking much better, so you will now be placed more accurately compared to when the game first came out.

Street Fighter 5 also adds a new “V-Gauge”, giving you access to new abilities once this gauge is full. This adds a whole new and unique perspective to the fighting, giving you new options with each character. They’ve also added a Stun Meter, that stuns a character when hit too many times consecutively. This encourages players to become more aggressive, and not always play so defensively. Street Fighter 5 also has additional content in the form of a DLC pack called Shadow Falls.

Use your super-powered punches to destroy your opponent.

Nash takes a obliterating punch from Ryu.

SF5 Gameplay