"Street Fighter 5" will feature new wave of characters soon, as well as new alternate costumes of Chun-Li and M.Bison within the game.
The latest promo for "Street Fighter 5" will feature the alternate costumes of Street Fighter veterans Chun-Li and M. Bison within the game, Event Hubs reported. The alternate costumes were first announce by Capcom along with other characters Ryun and Cammy. Each alternate costumes are found in different retailing websites and gamers can now pre-order them.
GameStop will have the Ryu's alternate skin, while Best Buy will feature Cammy's alternate skin. Both M. Bison and Chun-Li's costumes can be found in Amazon (M.Bison) and in the PlayStation Store/PC Digital (Chun-Li).
Aside from the alternate costumes, "Street Fighter" game series director Yoshinori Ono announced new characters for "Street Fighter 5" soon. Ono stated that next wave of characters will depend on the game's success during its launch date next year as the said number of character's in the sequel will rival or even surpass "Ultra Street Fighter 5", Eurogamer reported.
Several rumored characters in "Street Fighter 5" are rumored to include in the first DLC which include Ibuki, Alex, Urien, Balrog and Guile. Other possible fighters such as Juri, Dudley, Mike Haggar, Poison, Hugo, C. Viper, Abel, Eagle and Akuma are being considered in the roster.
So far the current playable fighters in "Street Fighter 5 are Ryun, Chun-Li, Charlie Nash, M.Bison, Cammy White, Birdie, Ken Masters, Necalli,Vega, R. Mika, Rashid, Karin Kanzuki, Zangief, Laura and Dhalsim.
Capcom added that "Street Fighter 5" will feature a Collector's and Steel Book case editions each featuring their unique DLC and bonus items. The "Street Fighter 5" Collector's edition will cost around $329.98 dollars in GameStop, while the standard exclusive bundle will only be $298.98.
"Street Fighter 5" will officially launch in Feb. 16, 2016 in North America and Feb. 18 in Japan for the PlayStation 4 and PC platforms.