CvS is definately a good game. It falls short of greatness simply due to lack of certain characters and the way they weakened a few SNK people. I have been talking with Nick_th_Fury about this. As you guys know everyone has 2 versions, a normal and an EX. Here is where the game falls short: There are some people like Terry and Mai that should have certain move combinations. Terry's Crack Shoot is not as good as his Power Dunk for this game and I really can't see Terry surviving without his Rising Tackle against some of the Capcom elite with a good opponent on the other stick, yet they split the moves up. One Terry has Rising Tackle, Power Wave, Crack Shoot, and Burn Knuckle, the other has Power Guyser, Crack Shoot, Burn Knuckle, and Power Dunk. I really feel they should have put out one of each character and chosen a better assortment of moves like can the Power Wave and give Terry the Guyser instead to limit his lockdown potential, then give him Burn Knuck, Pow Dunk, and Ris Tackle. He should be his good ole defensive self like that. Mai was another good example as they totally canned the move she does where she spins the fans and replaced it with a delayed flame that covers here entire body as a charge down to up move. I generally enjoy Mai, but I wouldn't choose her in this game against a Capcom elite player, maybe if they chose Cammy. To be fair there are some Capcom characters that suffer from similar problems, but nowhere near as badly. We also have to remember that this game will most likely have a sequal and the 2nd one may have all those people we really wanted to see like MotW and SF3 3S characters. If you are on the fence on the title and want an honest opinion I would say buy it if you like old school fighting action. This game really is a throwback to the days of old where each twitch could mean a loss of 1/5 of your life, with turtles and all. Don't let the complaints of the game speed fool you. There is a Turbo option that gives a good pace. I have never played the game on normal so I can't comment on that, but I would say Turbo is the speed of normal SF3 or so.