Wasted potential
First off, as above mentioned, the scenery and graphics are amazing. Everything from the most obvious (your character model) to the least obvious (individual blades of grass on certain levels) looks incredible. And that's really all that needs to be said. Everyone seems to be hung up so much on how good it looks, they totally forget that there's gameplay underneath that misleading display. And let me tell you, it isn't pretty. Not at all.
The sound is typical in-game, but it's amazing to me how even the non-Japanese characters are completely fluent in Japanese, but not English.....it gets annoying. Really annoying. You would think they would have fixed it by now, but I guess that's never going to happen.
The story is....oh wait....there is no story. Unless of course you count kung-fu fighting someone over lettuce a story...and yes, unfortunately, I'm dead serious. The endings are so off-the-page and make so little sense that you'll find yourself asking, "Why did I just put myself through that crap to see this???" Granted, the FMV looks good...but who cares when the movies themselves are so stupid it's beyond funny.
Gameplay. Here's where this game completely goes to the crapper. For button mashers, it's practically hopeless. Mash away, but even in the first fight you can expect to get nailed by ten hit combos out of nowhere. And OMFG, this game "juggles" like none other. Every single chance the A.I. gets, you're in the air and they're nailing you with combos that even the lead programmers on this game can't do. And don't expect any different if you're not a button masher. This game's A.I. is by far the cheapest I have ever encountered in a game. Period. Which means that, if you're a new comer, you're not going to play this game much because it's that bad. And some would say that it's bragging rights for those who can hang with it, but I say it's poor programming and a cheap way to make a short game last longer. After all, if you have to face each enemy 20 friggin times to progress, then it's going to take you a while to beat the game. And the last boss is ridiculous, always disappearing at the exact right second and then reappearing with a 12 hit knock-you-in-the-air-and-juggle-like-WOAH combo. Oh, and to make it better, sometimes her throws do little damage...sometimes they take off 3/4 your life bar...NO EXAGGERATION! Come on now, that's stupid. Nobody wants to deal with that kind of poor programming.
In closing, unless you're into getting your butt kicked again...and again....and again..and again...don't even pick up the box to this one. You COULD try to just play for the multiplayer, but then you'd probably want to unlock the hidden characters and costumes...and you really don't want to bother with that, TRUST ME. This game had such potential, but once again, the execution by Team Ninja wavered, causing this one to fall on the bottom side of my Xbox 360 recommended games list. And for all the people who gave this game a ten, I bet if the graphics were on the level of say...Mortal Kombat...you guys (or gals) would say this game sucks. There's my two cents.