You can throw hadoukens in first-person with 'Ultra Street Fighter II'

Ryu Simulator 2017.
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Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, the upcoming throwback fighting game for Nintendo Switch, will have a brand new first-person game mode that allows you to throw hadoukens at enemies.

Copies of the game have been showing up in Japan and Nintendo Everything reported that the back of the game's box reveals a game mode called Unleash Hadoken (波Do拳), a first-person mode that uses the Switch's Joy-Con controllers.

A first-person game mode was teased very briefly in the reveal trailer for Ultra Street Fighter II in January:

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The accompanying screenshot on the back of the game's box shows multiple Shadaloo soldiers, the same kind of enemy seen in the clip above. Pair that fact with the use of the Joy-Cons and this could mean that Unleash Hadoken is an on-rails minigame where players have to beat back waves of soldiers by mimicking Ryu's moves with the Joy-Cons.

You can finally know exactly what it feels like to be Ryu when he blasts his foes in the face with a well-placed fireball.

Ultra Street Fighter II is expected to release in 2017.

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Kellen Beck

Kellen is a science reporter at Mashable, covering space, environmentalism, sustainability, and future tech. Previously, Kellen has covered entertainment, gaming, esports, and consumer tech at Mashable. Follow him on Twitter @Kellenbeck

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