I already got it, for Wii, and I just love it, music, graphics, control, everything is almost as good as in the first four games. It's not as good as Megaman 3 in my opinion, but still is a blast to play a "new" chapter in the series.

I guess I'll get it for 360 too, but the d-pad worries me a bit, unfortunately after playing Bionic Commando I know what to expect from that little circle-shaped thing.

1) Dead or Alive 4.

2) Street Fighter Alpha 3.

3) Marvel Super Heroes.

Yeah, there still people playing online, not as many as in the game's heyday, but you can still find some competition. And, yes, expect to find a lot of Hayabusa and Hayate players out there, those two are too popular it seems.

I like Hayabusa in Ninja Gaiden, in DOA he can be a pain.

It´s been posted a lot of times before, just clear the cache and it will run normally, just dont update the game. On the bad side, you'll have to download the updates for all your other games again. Or you could call the MS support service.

Get rid of the update, the game will run OK, but you won't be able to upload your karma score.

Well, the fact is that most of current games doesn't require the D-pad AND fighting games are not a mainstream genre anymore. Since launch I've been complaining about it, I bought my 360 to play DOA4, and the d-pads proved soon enough not being apropriate for playing 2D or 3D fighting games. Try playing GGX2 and you'll see what I mean.

But MS is not doing anything to fix their controller simply because there are not many fighting games (compared to the huge number of shooters and FPS that are released on the console). We could even make a list of the games released since launch day and it would hardly have more than 15 titles.

I bought a Hori DOA4 stick (there's a VF5 stick for those who hate Kokoro ^_^), it works great with DOA4, SFII, GGX2, VF5, DOA3, DOAU and with shooters like Ikaruga, Triggerheart Exelica and 1942. I just don't think Microsoft will go for a new design for the 360 controller, and all the other third party d-pads I've tried are just about the same horrible thing.