Ok game play, better graphics, but some problems.
Well, i bought this game for my PS3 a while back, thinking it would be an awesome replacement for Tekken....considering the fact that VF5 looked so great on the PS3 demos at your local Game stop/Best buy/Circuit City/Etc.
Not as great as i anticipated. the graphics are great...and i mean, GREAT. They're really incredible...but then again, its on a ps3...which was pretty much BUILT for graphics =P . However, i think the graphics actually make up for really repetitive game play(i said in he title, "Ok game play"--i meant without the repetitive part.)...and yes, most fighting games are like that, but this one was REALLY repetitive....you just fight, win, fight, win.....the main thing that made it repetitive was the lack of combos and the choppy moves in the game, as well as a problem with the whole fighting sequence itself...instead of being a "whose better at combos and who has better moves", it turns into more of a "who pushes the punch button faster"...though, there are a few combos, they are generally short. and another thing that just pissed me off was some of he character's moves looked really slow...i doubt that really matters, but if i compared this to Tekken...Tekken would really leave this in the dust....then again, i AM a Tekken fan, and i have never really played much Virtua fighter. so i might be a bit biased.
Now that im done stating all the bad things of this game, time for some of the great things about it. I really enjoyed the Character customization thing...VF had more things to get than Tekken(well, depends), and you could WIN items....however, there was something i hated....the fact that it was so goddamn hard to get money. but other than that, Quest mode is pretty worth it...i could get like 10 wins, and walk out with a crap load of things. the VTV thing was great too(is it VTV? i forgot what its called), with the graphics, and some of the characters moves, watching the videos were awesome....well, some of them, mainly Eileen's Kou-kun demonstration thing.....i didn't like the exhibition matches tho....i just find watching fights on VF5 really boring.
Overall, VF5 was a pretty decent game, good graphics which make up for like everything else in the game, a "commentary" option which is always fun, and being able to laugh in your friends face when they suck so much at this game compared to you(actually, it takes a bit of time to get good at this game cuz of the choppy moves and no combo thing, so when YOU master it...kinda, and your friends dont, its priceless).
And one last thing--About my issue on the moves.....maybe im just too hooked up on Tekken and its combos lol... so you dont have to listen to that if you dont want cuz i think any Virtua FIghter fan would love this game.