Street Fighter: Duel

For more than three and a half decades, Capcom's Street Fighter games have shaped and defined the fighting game genre. Street Fighter: Duel takes the franchise in a completely different direction, throwing a Hadouken at the mobile market in this action-based role-playing game. The game has some great production value, with sharp visuals and animations faithful to the Street Fighter legacy. There's also plenty of content packed into the mobile app, things like multiple event types, community building guilds, exclusive cosmetics, character bios and backstories, and even an idling component that earns players rewards for simply having the game running. And yet, in spite of all this content, the game doesn't seem to give players much to actually do.

On thing players should be aware of going into Street Fighter: Duel is that, despite initial appearances, it's not a fighting game by any stretch of the imagination. It's more like a fan service spectacle. The core mechanic of the game is to line up a string of fighters as a team, watch them duke it out with another random team, and tap a button once enough charge builds on a power bar. And the game defaults to an autoplay mode so you don't even have to do that if it seems like too much work. Even managing your roster of fighters can be handled by auto-equipping gear and resetting some fighters to build up others. Overall, Street Fighter: Duel is less of a competitive game and more of a spectator sport. Still, for fans of the series, it's a nice bit of eye candy to sink some idle time into. Just don't expect it to pack much of a Dragon Punch.