Evo 2024: Get to know the fighting games headlining the tournaments
The eve of Evo, the world’s biggest celebration of fighting games, is almost upon us. This massive event in Las Vegas Will host over 10,000 participants in 2024, making it officially the biggest eSports event yet on record. Prepare for plenty of world-premiere announcements, upcoming game showcases, and the main draw: tournaments for eight carefully selected fighting games.
Are you unsure what’s on the roster or what to expect from the different games? We’ve assembled a handy primer on what makes each game special and what to look out for.
Publisher: Capcom | Developer: Capcom
The newest installment of Capcom’s legendary, genre-defining fighting game series. Released last year, it quickly became (and remains) Evo’s biggest game.
Street Fighter 6’s gameplay is built around the all-new Drive gauge. By spending Drive, players can perform all sorts of advanced techniques: the momentum-shifting Drive Impact, the defensive Drive Parry, a fierce Drive Reversal counterattack, the aggressive Drive Rush dashing movement, and the special-move enhancing Overdrive. Drive management is crucial to strategy: running out of Drive puts a competitor in a very bad Burnout position, restricting their Drive usage and inflicting other disadvantageous effects.
Street Fighter 6, having the largest pool of competitors, is undoubtedly going to have some major upsets in the brackets. Plenty of the biggest names in the Street Fighter series’ competitive scene will be in attendance, but just because you’re a big name doesn’t mean you can’t be caught off-guard by a fresh-faced player who happens to be really good and with two recent DLC character additions, fan favorites M. Bison and Akuma, a lot of surprises could happen.
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment | Developer: Bandai Namco Studios Inc.
Bandai-Namco’s Tekken 8 is the most popular 3D fighting game on the planet right now. It’s also one of the newest games at Evo, released in January of this year.
Tekken 8 is a game built around
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