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Street Fighter II' Turbo cover artvsSuper Street Fighter IV cover art

Street Fighter II' TurbovsSuper Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter II' Turbo leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Super Street Fighter IV leans Execution (Grand Arena).

EXECUTION8 /10READS8 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Street Fighter II' TurboSuper Street Fighter IV

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads8 vs 8

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Super Street Fighter IV leans harder on variance: Deterministic outside minor damage scaling

Optimization5 vs 6

Super Street Fighter IV leans harder on optimization: Frame data and matchup study are an entire discipline

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Street Fighter II' Turbo

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Super Street Fighter IV