The final roster of "Super Street Fighter 4' characters appears to be set in stone now with the Turkish Yagli Gures wrestler Hakan now verified by Capcom and available to watch in trailers. The big guy joins Juri as the title's second new entrant for the series, and he will be the first of his colleagues to power up by dousing himself in oil.
Hakan is the CEO of a cooking oil company, according to a Famitsu article translated by Andriasang. Like the Mexican wrestler El Fuerte, he enters the tournament as a means to roam the world looking for new recipes, but he should bring some innovation to past burly-man templates by introducing some speedy sliding moves made possible by his oil.
He's intended for "mid to high level players," the series' producer Yoshinori Ono said, as opposed to Juri, who was created for beginners. I'm all for this, as learning how to use Abel, Rose and El Fuerte properly completely hooked me in "SF4." Throwing in a character built from scratch who brings some personality and unique movement to "SSF4" may just put it over the line into the first-week buy category for me.
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