Let me start by saying that this is by far the best ps3 fighting game that I have played so far. The actual fighting gameplay is smoother, better looking, and just better overall than the first one, its extremely easy to teach and learn. My favorite part of this whole game is that the amount of strategies that a player can use is so diverse that its not like the old fighting games where one player can expect what the other player will do. The graphics are mouth watering (expect the japanese to bring out games with this caliber of graphics), the voices are nicely done (jap dub not sure about the english one), the story is loyal (kind of) to the manga and anime (it was a bit of tear jerker for me as well). The only two negative things that I could say is that touring around the world is a bit boring and it could have have been better if they used the gameplay from the first one, that and the online gameplay is really laggy but if you have a fast (by fast I mean mbps not kbps) internet connection the your good to go.