A game where it tries to be like the original but fails.
The story is just horrible. Rather than be a normal "save the girl" plot or something simple, they opted for Cody to be a "glow" user which is a drug being distributed around Metro City. Cody a drug user? No way!
The graphics are not that bad nor are they any good. You get to see Cody, Guy, and Haggar in full 3D form (that fighting game doesn't count). It's a bit awesome to see them fight by their side. This game does animate them rather well considering they are trying to copy the animations from the original Final Fight. The overall look of the game is that it is just sloppily made. Low polygon counts especially on the characters. This studio could have done much better considering its the final years of the PS2.
Sound-wise, it doesn't fare any better. You can clearly hear the guy trying desperately to voice a gruff kind of guy. Guy has this ridiculous Chinese accent. Can they be any more stereotypical?
What truly suffers is the gameplay. It wants to be a pseudo beat-em-up with moves. For example, the game offers these counter moves, but they are so hard to pull off that they just become useless. Then there are these mini-games sprawled out throughout the game to distract you because they know you will finish the game in a matter of hours. There is a puzzle game, a stomp pests game, and this incredibly easy card game. There are probably more, but playing them never did anything to my character so they were just mere distractions. I know, I know. They tried to mimic the game's "break the car" mini-game, but its hard to have nostalgic feelings when they have 5-6 mini-games.
They are trying too hard to copy the original game in that they forgot to make the franchise into something fresh.