The ‘Street Fighter’ Trailer Is Now a Playable Game on YouTube – Gizmodo

Did you know YouTube Games—sorry, YouTube Playables—was a thing? Me neither. This perhaps explains why YouTube struck a deal with the upcoming Street Fighter movie, where the trailer is … also a game? Hosted on YouTube? Yeah. The game itself is kinda fun—it’s basically a rhythm game in which you respond to prompts flashing across the screen by pressing the corresponding buttons, either onscreen or on your keyboard, which is wayyyy easier. At first, I thought the trailer was actually responding to my hits and misses, which would have been really cool. But after replaying it, I realized they had merely happened to line up with moments like Ken throwing Ryu through a wall or a scantily clad Chun-Li launching a pair of nunchaku through a photo of M. Bison. Given Street Fighter’s origins as, well, a game, it’s as good a choice as any for a marketing stunt like this, although I will say that concentrating on the on-screen prompts makes it hard to focus on the actual trailer. This is a shame, because the movie looks… kind of awesome, to be honest. As someone who grew up with Street Fighter II and never really got super into later
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