It is a momentous occasion, the passion Capcom has managed to rekindle for its flagship series both unexpected and wonderful. And in a beat-'em-up, the distance between victory and defeat is the only distance that ever matters.Ģ009 is the year of the beat-'em-up's renaissance, one singlehandedly brought about by Capcom's Street Fighter IV, a game that promises not only to draw back into the fold those players long put off by the genre's increasing complexity but also a new generation of gamers. The feel in the hand, the weight and the bulk on the lap, the resisting click of the buttons and the size and slipperiness of the ball top can narrow or widen the distance between victory and defeat. In this genre a controller doesn't need to be defective to be game-breaking. In beat-'em-ups, where precision and response are everything, the control stick's importance is elevated yet further. If the controller is in any way lacking, through design or defect, then the game is broken with it, as any Rock Band player with a sticky orange fret button can tell you. On-screen characters might be the visualisation of a player's thought processes, but the controller is the facilitator, the very bridge over which will is made action. Players can grow as attached to their control stick as they do their on-screen character, learning each one's nuance and personality intimately. The arcade stick can be either the beat-'em-up aficionado's closest ally or most damaging adversary.

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