Gamertell

I want to start by thanking Brinstar who left a comment in my previous story bringing up a good question about Street Fighter 4 costumes for Home.

“Do the SFIV Home unlockables expire? I’m not planning on getting SFIV immediately after launch, ... Budget constraints,” Brinstar asked. Well, here’s what I was able to find and please note this is not an absolute answer as not much is known about unlockable Home avatar items yet. I just ordered my copy and it hasn’t arrived yet.

According to a report posted by IGN, there will be paid and rewarded Street Fighter 4 items available to fans and Playstation Home will have launching stations for the game within Home. The only unlockable free items that I know of at the moment are those my friend RayBlade has already earned playing the game. Since I’m still trying to survive the arcade mode just to unlock other playable characters, I asked my friend RayBlade how he unlocked his t-shirts. He said it was easy, all you had to do is:

• Compete in 10 online matches to unlock a blue Dan Sakiyo t-shirt and earn a “The Journey Begins” trophy.
• Compete in 100 online matches to unlock a black Akuma “Ten” t-shirt and earn the “10 Years Too Late” trophy.
• Defeat Gouken and clear the arcade mode while playing at the hardest difficulty level available to unlock the “Shadoloo” shirt and a “Legendary Champion” trophy.
• Obtain 70 percent of the trophies for Street Fighter 4 game and you can earn the S.I.N. Corporation t-shirt.

But there are Street Fighter 4 items available now for those who haven’t bought the game yet. There are four costumes available now at Threads located in the Home mall. These items are 99 cents each and include the following for male avatars: Ken, Ryu and Guile’s wig (found under the hat category); Ken and Ryu’s Gi; Guile’s camouflaged pants and green sleeveless T-shirt complete with an American flag tattoo (which will appear on your avatar’s shoulder); and Guile’s Army boots.

For female avatars you can purchase Chun Li’s wig, spiked bracers, blue and gold blouse, blue and gold skirt with red tights and white laced up boots. Sorry, no camo outfits were found at the store.

The items were hinted at in the Playstation Home Blogs and finally appeared after the Ninja hunt event held February 24, 2009. Where, if you were lucky enough to catch a ninja hiding or sneaking around in Home, you would receive messages about the items and the launching of the Warhawk Home world which is also currently available.

When you visit the Warhawk Home you will find yourself in the Warhawk Command Center featuring sand tables where you can plot their game plan and soon be able to launch into the actual game to test their plan. The table uses maps from within game and has game pieces players can use by positioning them on the grid any where on the map. There are terminals all around the command center with hints, game play tips and information about the game itself. With the launching of Warhawk Home, the Playstation Store is offering Warhawk for $19.99 until March 11, 2009. Booster combo packs for the game will be available for $4.99 each during this time before returning to its original pricing of $29.99 for the game and $9.99 for each booster combo pack.

The next game mentioned in the blogs to appear on Home is Resident Evil 5, which just opened March 5, 2009. You can explore the world and even talk to developers of the game at the movie set and some of the familiar characters on the street. There are many features like an arcade there but currently not available to play. But for all the girls who ranted about not receiving their free Resident Evil 5 T-shirts in January 2009, they are now available at Threads in the mall.

Read [IGN.com] Site [Official Street Fighter site] Site [PlayStation.com]