Last weekend, Capcom ran a closed Street Fighter 6 beta – and it already looks and feels brilliant. These events are often a means of testing netcode and servers pre-release, but, even at this early stage, the presentation of this game is incredible, the netcode among the best you’ll find, and the sheer wealth of training options that satisfy both hardcore and casual players – not to mention the superb ‘Battle Hub’ lobby and a character creator that lets people unleash some true monstrosities upon the world – made this one of the most fully featured beta tests we’ve seen in some time. So much so, it’s not unreasonable to compare the amount of content the Street Fighter 6 beta brought with it, with the amount of content Street Fighter 5 contained at launch. Which, to be fair, probably says more about the latter than the former.
