Great gameplay, fun challenges, annoying bosses, and awesome online multiplayer. This Street Fighter has it all!
The arcade is fun. It's too bad they don't have the bonus stages though, those were pretty fun IMO. And then comes Seth... I hate that damn guy, i spent 2 hours with Chun Li trying to beat him. If you get to close, he throws you. If you are too far - he uses sonic boom. If you are in between, he will combo you/jump on you and do the thousand kick. If you are in the air he does his 15 hit shoryuken on you. If you are on the ground he teleports a lot making it impossible for you to block because you dont know where hes coming from. This sucks especially with charge characters. Not to mention the move that sucks you close to him, and his special which he happens to use usually when you are about to hurt him bad.
Online I would give the game a 9.5, only because finding a match can be a bit tedious sometimes. Quick match isn't exactly quick because chances are you will probably select a full lobby. The actual fighting is fun online, I didn't see too much lag. A couple of occasions I ended up fighting people that lagged, and therefore had to play in 2 second intervals. Happy to say i still won, but it was weird. The thing that sucked the most though was that people always picked Ken. It was annoying until i figured out how to beat all the Ken users. Just use Blanka and his charge attacks Now i can beat most anyone, my biggest streak was 8, i lost to someone that played Cammy! i really wanted that achievement... oh well. I spent my first couple days online, which is why only have 3 characters unlocked
Just on a side note, the icon and titles thing is awesome. I use the Legendary Loser title (because I hate bragging) and the joystick icon. I have a bunch of titles unlocked though, some golden ones that you get for beating hard mode trial challenges, but well talk about that later.
As for the achievements, most of them are simple. You just play like you do and boom, you'll get em. There aren't really hard achievements, except for maybe winning 10 (online) matches in a row. There is one i'm curious about, its the last achievement. Im guessing that's if you get ranked first in the online ranking, because its description is something like 'best in the world' or something similar. But yeah, as long as you keep playing like you do, most likely you will get all of the achievements.
The challenges are fun too, and actually have some reason. You will get your first 2 unlockable costume colors doing the challenges. My favorite one is survival, just because you actually have to think a little bit. Time attack is simple too, as long as you do decent. Trial on the other hand can range from "piece of cake" to "OMG WTF I CANT DO THAT WITH 2 HANDS..". All of them are fun additions, which add tons to the replay value of this game. I could see myself still playing this in months to come, without being near done.
There really isn't much to say about the options, other than that you can change the voices from English to Japanese (which I recently found out changes the title song's language) in both the cut scenes and gameplay. I prefer English, only because I like to know what they are saying. The subtitles have a tendency to hide in white backgrounds, making it hard to read. You can also change your button mapping in the options, so if you perhaps used an emulator with a controller, and set it up a certain way, you can replicate that on your 360! I instead relearned the controls, not so hard really. (I use joystick BTW, i never really like the d-pad - the joystick is just as good as anything else).
The gallery is awesome, unlocking artwork and design prototypes is sweet. I just wish i could read Chinese because I have no idea what it says on some of the pictures (i'm mostly interested in what the ones on the Guile pics say). To be honest I wish they would have some more artwork in there (there is a lot, but i just like those types of things). You can also re-watch unlocked intros and endings of characters, along with credits and opening movies/edits, perhaps even trailers.. The pictures are categorized into Characters, Stages, and Official - which shows some promotional artwork.
The last thing i will talk about is the DLC. So far you can get the brawler pack which unlocks you a few costumes for some of your characters. I wont be buying it, instead ill wait 'til they release all the packs and make a cheaper combo pack. I heard about it coming to DLC around April 30. I also heard of a new game mode called Champions, which implements a replay feature. This is old news BTW, so i wouldn't trust me on those last 2 statements.
So overall, the game is awesome. It just doesn't get old, there is too much to unlock and do. I am pretty good at the game so far, i lost a bunch of BP recently. Whelp, I'm off to go unlock some more characters, ill leave a point based overall score here.
9.8/10
Thanks for reading!