Street Fighter V Cinematic Story Coming in June

<p>Fighting games are not often regarded for their cinematic stories&comma; but with recent games like <em>Mortal Kombat X<&sol;em>&comma; that seems to be changing&period; With plenty of lore and rich character history to reflect on and develop further&comma; <em>Street Fighter V <&sol;em>looks to be making the next foray into something akin to the <em>Mortal Kombat <&sol;em>franchise&&num;8217&semi;s cinematic narrative&period; Fans who are looking forward to an ambitious story from <em>Street Fighter V <&sol;em>will be able to experience it through a free content update in June 2016 &&num;8211&semi; four months after <em>Street Fighter V <&sol;em>is released on February 16th&comma; 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The trailer above showcases just how the story will look&comma; but Peter Rosas&comma; Associate Producer at Capcom&comma; has provided some more details <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blog&period;us&period;playstation&period;com&sol;2016&sol;01&sol;25&sol;street-fighter-v-story-details-and-free-cinematic-expansion-revealed&sol;">via the PlayStation Blog<&sol;a>&period; The game&&num;8217&semi;s story will take place between the events of <em>Street Fighter IV <&sol;em>and <em>III<&sol;em>&comma; with a focus on M&period; Bison and Shadaloo&period; This marks the first time that the <em>Street Fighter <&sol;em>franchise has attempted to tell a story in this fashion&comma; and most of it is sounding like it will be structured similarly to how <em>Mortal Kombat <&sol;em>has been doing it&period; Unfortunately&comma; that is about all the info available at the moment&comma; but there is some other story news worth mentioning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before the free June update&comma; <em>Street Fighter V <&sol;em>will still ship with storylines for each of its characters in the same way it always has&period; Character stories will detail each fighter&&num;8217&semi;s motivations for fighting as well as what their relationship is with other characters in the series&period; This would be a good way to prime yourself for the cinematic story&comma; in which some of those details may be taken as a given&period; The character stories will be illustrated by Bengus&comma; a famous Japanese illustrator known for his work on previous Capcom titles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Street Fighter V <&sol;em>will release on February 16th&comma; 2016 for PlayStation 4&comma; PC and Linux&comma; and will feature cross-platform play&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;h-BWJ9fUE0M">PlayStation Blog<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;