Good, solid beat-em-up action, streetfighter with a different paintjob
Apart from the characters and setting being different, this is basically just a streetfighter game at heart, all the moves are their, the characters even have their own variations of fireball, dragonpunch etc, and all characters get their own awesome special moves, some of which are cool to watch.
The graphics in the game are nicely-drawn manga style graphics, with quality sound to boot, characters are well-animated all with their own roster of moves and combo's to work-out
The characters are a bit boring besides morrigan and the werewolf dude......vampires and werewolves are cool but i don't like the idea of playing as a sea-monster or flipping mummy....this is just my own preferences of course.
This is an excellent game, the action is awesome, there are loads of moves to master and plenty of goodies to unlock, you can also play in different arcade modes which change the game slightly changing special move system etc. You can also play against your buddies with this psp version, letting you kick your buddies ass in multiplayer mode, (ad-hoc).
The only main rant I have about this game is the control system....you see the psp's d-pad isn't too strong at pulling off diagonal motions and the special moves are a bit tricky to pull off at times...you need to spend a lot of time mastering this and even then you dont always pull off the moves 100% of the time. Capcom must have known this and they added easy control mode...it adapts to the psp's d-pad but moves are too easy to pull off...and not as satisfying when you use them in that mode.....lesser feeling of accomplishment.
I found myself messing around with the button configurations to find a way to suit my on way of playing, which was fine. But i hope capcom get this right and enable the analogue stick when sfa3 is released.
Overall an excellent game let down by a control system that nearly kills it.