Abigail, the daringly dressed penultimate foe from Final Fight, is the latest brawler to be added to Street Fighter V’s rapidly inflating roster – and he’s beefed up a bit since his Super Nintendo days. The enormous antagonist is literally so big that many franchise fans have pondered how grappling attacks will work against him – or if you’ll even be able to leap over his tower block-esque frame.
To be honest, we’re not massive fans of his design: his proportions are all over the place, and the tyre arm-bands he sports with ‘Mad Gear’ written on them are a bit on the nose. Nevertheless, if slow grapplers are your thing, ol’ Abi appears to have an interesting move-set – we quite like his juggling attacks.
The new challenger will drop a quarter into Capcom’s fighter on 25th July, and will be the fourth fighter made available as part of the title’s second Season Pass. He’ll be accompanied by a brand new stage based upon Metro City, which you can see for yourselves in the trailer embedded above. Dem arms, though.
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Let's be honest: he looks terrible.
I like how massive he is but his face is... Urgh. The stage looks amazing though!
Also on the same day the classic Ryu stage (Suzuku castle), nostalgia costumes for Alex, Ibuki and Juri and the CPT stage "ring of pride" will be released.
Edit: I would love a Final Fight remake with SFV graphic engine! Digital title not AAA
"Vince McMahon likes big sweaty men"
As dumb as he looks his attacks look great, I love how he throws people around with such little effort like you would a coat.
Still better than the MvCI reveals that didn't even get a trailer...
Think I prefer Geese Howard in Tekken 7.
His name doesn't suit his looks either.
@ShogunRok yeah of course not even in the same league but this drops next week...
I think the nipples are just gratuitous.
Side consideration: the user who predicted season 2 characters so far has been extremely accurate so it's safe to assume the next characters will be: Menat, a female Egyptian fortune teller trained by Rose, and Zeku, Guy's teacher that I totally expect to see in Abigail's story prologue since he is Final Fight related.
He also confirmed Sakura and Sagat in season 3, and SSF5 to be revealed at Capcom Cup's finals
@Feena There's a Season 3? Lmao!! This game is just a joke now and such a shadow of the original games. I can't believe you have to pay each year to gain access to characters. It's so painful to read. What ever happened to playing through the game to unlock these? I guess I'm just that old school, I'm afraid.
Ah, that clears that up a bit. Thanks.
@Bigkopman you don't have to pay - unless you want to, I am starting to have the opposite problem tbh: I have the fight money (game credit) but there's only so much I can buy with it... Anyway Capcom already said it will support this game until 2020 so...expect a season 4 too 😅
@Feena I stopped playing with SFIV to be honest. I'm just fed up with the season passes for everything these days..
He's far too big, jeez SFV is really letting itself go.
He must punch giant boulders to grow his arms so much.
He looks so out of place it is not even funny.
I have no problem with Capcom adding him in... he just doesn't need to be that big though.
People pay season pass for this? I'm glad I already uninstalled the game from my ps4..
Geez... It seem everyone in SF5 world has been infected with T-Virus
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