Street Fighter X Tekken: Special Edition -Xbox 360

On Time delivery. Good value. Great condition

[Important Preface on Reviewing Street Fighter VS Tekken]Yes, I know you may look at the reviews of the game here and think that something might be wrong with the game, or that it might be defective. It is not. In fact it was well reviewed. If you look at Metacritic website it has average score of 85% out of 100%, which is relatively very high grade for any game. That is based on 31 professional review websites. Then you come here and see all the negative comments how "gems are useless" or "we cannot have local coop against online!" or "There is DLC on the disk, so it should be free!" About Local Coop, perhaps it sucks, but it does not make any game unfair, since the opponent plays by the same rules. Regarding content on disk, neither in practical terms or legal terms any locked content on the disk should be free. It is like saying the game is on the disk, so I should see all the open source code for it. Also keep in mind. ONLY 3 revies have a mark on their review as "verified Amazon purchase" and those three people gave the game decent and constructive criticism. Why would others come a website from which they did not buy the game and review the game, not even mentioning they're reviewing special edition. Only answer is there are some forums online where gamers read about games, game complaints, and someone suggested they go to all the sites and write negative reviews about the game.Now to get to my review of Street Fighter VS. Tekken. It is by far not a bad game. The graphics are very fast 60 frames per second. If you care about the visuals then you can't be disappointed with this. Everything is shinier, more lifelike, and you see textures you have not seen before in fighting game. I think rendering of skin textures has gotten much better than previous Capcom fighters. Sometimes you'll see when characters start sweating, and some players will enjoy seeing that, if they play certain characters. You get many characters to choose from at the start. As you play though the campaign with two characters you choose, you can follow somewhat of a story. Nothing special about this plot. Just good characters fighting evil ones. But what you do get to see is very interesting cutscenes explaining why each character paired up with another and it creates a coherent continuity. The stages and the environment are also rather diverse and creative as you are not limited to one stage, but can perform special moves that will throw the characters either into another battlefield, or below a collapsed building, all accompanied by cool cut scenes. Audio and music are ok, by default the characters have Japanese voice overs, but you are able to switch them to English and back selectively, for specific characters.I've played video and computer games, including fighting games, over fifteen years, and I think gameplay here mostly resembles Marvel vs Capcom in high speed of the fights, and the moves correspond to respective games, whether Street Fighter or Tekken. However, some might find problems here as some super moves have been slightly modified and you might not get the same move unless you check the moves list.A lot of people complain about the idea of gems. That they will create unbalanced gameplay, or that they are useless. I think whether you like the gem system will depend on the skill of the player. For example I want my characters to move faster so I will try to use speed up Gem whenever possible. Of course this needs a lot of practice to figure out which ones you might need since big and slow characters such as Hugo or Zangief will need a gem that might help you if you think they are too slow, or gems that increase damage points may help weaker, smaller characters. I personally like the gem system because when I modify any given character with a few gems it feels like an entirely different character. You have to perform a certain action to activate some of the activated gems, while others are passive, ones with weaker effects have easier activation, and vice versa[ABOUT 'SPECIAL EDITION']Ok, like others said, the special edition is ironically nothing special at all. It is $10 more than the standard edition but it gives you access to all the gems present in the game from the start. The "present" you get is a plastic DIY toy coin bank that looks like a arcade cabinet. I didn't open it, but from what it looks like, honestly it is like a happy meal toy. Then again, this is not a "Collector's Edition" of any sort, its just "Special Edition"It was advertised that the buyer will get a special, unique, exclusive Comic Book. This was definitely a rip off. The "Comic Book" is just a part of the extra thick manual that is inside the case. You know how you get really fat manuals for fighting games? This is just that but with "comic pages" printed on back.So for $10 extra, the "special edition" gets 2 or 3 out of 5, depending how much you value the things I described and gems.

"The characters are all 100% complete, I've been using them thoroughly. Also there's over 100 alt costumes, hundreds of gems, a combo editor, a replay analyzer, and even freaking colors that are all locked on the disc. You can see full videos of everything on my channel"[...]"Secondly, we've been asked by some players of the Xbox 360 version about the 4-player co-op mode and why it doesn't work when two players team up (locally) and attempt to play online. Unfortunately, due to time and resource issues, we weren't able to get that feature into the Xbox 360 version and we apologize to those players who were looking forward to it."-[...]False advertising, loads of hidden dlc... don't support a company that engages in such bad business practices.

Let's be frank, you're buying this version of the game because of the gems DLC, right? The comic is in the manual, and there is no art book.That being said, the game is fun, between the difficulty of Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Expect fast combat, but the need for control. A large cast of characters, a fun fighting system, and excellent training modes.While I'm disapointed in the DLC being on the disk for this title, the big two flaws are as follows:1) No Local Co-Op for online modes (Though the manual says you can...)2) No Seperate Art Book (like the product listing on Amazon implies.) The comic and artbook are basically the second half of the manual.The game's fun, and if you want the gem DLC, this is the way to go.Note: Updated this after "finding" the "art book" inside the manual.

I'll keep this review short, there's not much reason to play this game. Not only is the online pretty much dead at this point, the offline offerings are not very enjoyable. The mechanics are solid enough, but not very great either. There is a huge unbalance with the characters, and the Tekken characters need to be completely relearned from scratch (which is probably why I suck). The gem system is a novel idea, but executed poorly.And last but not least, the DLC fiasco pretty much destroyed the credibility of this game. Plus, this game is a pay to win as the gems used with each character need to be bought for the better ones. In short, I'm looking forward to Tekken X Street Fighter, the game that should've came out first. I believe that Namco will make things right.

This game is fantastic. Multiple game modes, goid character selection, multiple online modes, numerous training features. I really also like that each team has multiple uses for a full special bar. Just overall a goid game.

Received item pretty fast! Described as written. Graphics are great and box comes with everything it says. Bought it for my boyfriend and he loves it!!

Been a long time fighting game fan, and even with some of the game's balancing issues and complaints from others this is one I am enjoying and had been looking forward to. Still waiting for the next version to come out from the makers of Tekken to see what kind of spin and dynamic they might add to this genre with their version.

I was pretty upset the first review I had made since caracters were all locked, i think they have since unlocked them for free.. not sure but everybody seems playable, anyways the trial mode teaches you how to play this new game and OMG it is good ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!