Downloaded it for PS3. I downloaded the X360 demo too but have to try it still.
Some comments on the spur of the moment, which I might take back later.
+ Overall it looks good, there some nice new effects redone from zero and it's nice. New menus are cool and such
- The missing stuff (JP voices, theatre etc), while I wasn't particularly interested in them personally, is unjustified imho, there was no need to cut those parts off
+ Gameplay is still there, doesn't seem they fixed any of the bugs/issues of the original european version but I won't complain. It plays the same way as the old version, didn't notice any major difference in the input buffer (it's still the same huge awesome Input buffer from SC1/2). It's way smoother than the X360 emulated version (several slowdowns) or the Xbox 720p version (as above, slowdowns). The rare and occasional slowdowns present even in the original Arcade/Xbox/GC version during certain specific unblockable moves are completely absent here (noticed some small occasional slowdowns on inferno's stage though...)
? Online mode looks like the online mode of a game which came out 10 years ago. No rooms, limited set of options, no skip of intros... it all feels strange. Altough it's better than not having online I suppose (looking at you, SC1!)
? Game looks "strange". No I'm not talking just about the energy bars. It's just that some things feel... off place. Like the shiny pants of Kilik's second costume, and some other aspects too. I get the impression that they used the PS2 version because while some things look better than the Xbox version, some others look worse. At least at first sight.
- There are some bugs with audio (the fight introduction voice sometimes continues to play even if you skip the dialogue) and some occasional bugs with stages (seen a strange popup once in the Astaroth stage)
+ Playing with Heihachi and Spawn at the same time is so cool
(and despite me hating comics and Spawn, I have to say once more that Spawn has such an incredibly awesome moveset, he's so fun to play, you gotta try him guys!)
In Light of this I feel 18.99 for PS3 and 19.99 for X360 is a bit too much, they should have worked more.
I wouldn't suggest this game except to REAL hardcore fans of SC2 who really intend to play it a lot. If you want to just do a game or two, think twice before spending 20€.
I don't regret it because I know I'm gonna play it a lot and I still consider SC2 my personally favourite episode of the saga, but I sure think they could have worked a bit more on the game instead that this partially disappointing conversion.
A game such as SC2 definitely deserved more.
This is what disappoints people. The fact that they could have done so much more that the small bits they did suddenly do not feel as satisfying enough.
