EX2 Plus also added Meteor Combos, a precursor to the Ultra Combo system later introduced in Street Fighter IV. Hayate was dropped from the arcade version of EX2 Plus, but returned for the PlayStation version. Street Fighter EX2 Plus brought back Pullum, Darun, and Bison and then added Ryu's rival Sagat, Area (a young inventor with a giant mechanical arm), and Vulcano Rosso ( fiery Italian fighter).

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In their place came Street Fighter II veterans Blanka and Vega and four newcomers: Bison, Cycloid β, Cycloid γ, Pullum, Darun, Allen, and Blair were cut. This game also marks the first time that a Street Fighter game within its own sub-series removes characters from the roster as Akuma, Sakura, M. In 1998, Street Fighter EX2 was released and added Excel Combos ('Excel' being an abbreviation for ' Extra Can cel'), Custom Combos similar to the ones seen in the Alpha series. The game played similar to Street Fighter Alpha, but with the addition of side-stepping (albeit only as an aesthetic element of certain specials unlike, say, Tekken, it was not a universal mechanic), guard-breaking attacks that makes the opponent temporarily dizzy, and special moves and Super Combos that can be cancelled into other Super Combos. PlayStation-exclusive Street Fighter EX Plus α added familiar faces Dhalsim and Sakura.

Two Updated Re-releases were created as Street Fighter EX Plus, adding dark versions of Ryu (Evil Ryu) and Hokuto (Bloody Hokuto), and Cycloid-β (Beta) and Cycloid-γ (Gamma), two cyborg Ditto Fighters with no faces (Gamma's a wireframe).

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