In the times that i've tried playing this game, it just hasn't worked for me. The difficulty settings are horribly broken. At any time, the AI will easily destroy you, which can make the game very frustrating. The story, to a person who hasn't played the prequels, will make absolutely no sense. It's as if they made the story after they made the game, it just doesn't work. The Multiplayer is decent, but makes you wait for very long periods of time only to fight in very short matches. After a few hours, the concept of alive environments will become very boring and repetitive. The only plus for this game is the cut scenes, but people usually don't buy a fighting game to watch the cut scenes, they want to fight.
This isn't the worst game, but its definately not the best, although I personally feel it falls below average due to its stupid story, poor gameplay, average multiplayer, and frustrating difficulty settings.
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