Street Fighter 6 new gameplay modes finally detailed

Plus four returning characters revealed and a close beta test coming up in October

Capcom offered a lot of new information regarding Street Fighter 6 during the Tokyo Game Show week but there’s still a lot kept under wraps for the weeks and months ahead. (Image: Capcom)

One can expect Japanese developers to deliver the goods during the Tokyo Game Show week and Capcom did just that: the company had previously mentioned a few new gameplay modes for Street Fighter 6 — as in, not the traditional modes expected of any modern fighting game these days — and these are now revealed in detail.

The good news: by the look of things, there will be enough single-player content this time around to satisfy everyone still holding on to bitter memories from Street Fighter 5. The bad news: there’s cause for concern regarding microtransactions, which almost every company is currently leaving behind… but we’re not exactly sure that Capcom will.

Street Fighter 6 World Tour is more like City Tour, but still exciting

So, in a nutshell — there’ll be plenty of chances to dive into each new mode in detail — World Tour seems to be the Street Fighter’s equivalent of sports games’ Career Mode: the players can create a new character (in astounding detail as Capcom showed off) and roam the streets of Metro City in third person, meeting other characters and interacting with them. This is…