Capcom has shared a first trailer for Street Fighter 6’s next playable fighter, Akuma, who’ll be joining the game’s steadily expanding line-up sometime this “spring”.
Akuma will be Street Fighter 6’s 22nd playable character, following the arrival of Ed last month, and gives the returning fighter – who made his series debut in 1994’s Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo as a hidden boss – a bit of a makeover.
As with many other returning series characters, Akuma – the younger brother of Ryu and Ken’s master, Gouken – gets a striking new look for Street Fighter 6, his once-red mane now transformed into a shock of white hair.
When Akuma joins the Street Fighter 6 line-up this “spring”, he’ll be available in Fighting Ground mode and is also encountered as a master in World Tour mode. Players can become his student and embark on missions, and it’ll be possible to visit his Gokuento stage – as seen in Akuma’s reveal trailer above – in World Tour.