As you probably already know, a BETA of Street Fighter HD has been made available today on Xbox Live Arcade. This is in the UK, I'm not sure about anywhere else. You will need to buy the Capcom published 'Wolf of the Battlefield - Commando 3' game for 800 points (about £6.20 I think), and then download the BETA through it's options.

I've heard Commando 3 isn't a very good game, and the Street Fighter HD BETA will run out after eight weeks. Also only Ryu, Ken, and one stage are available, so some might not like this purchase if they really don't give a monkeys about Commando 3. This BETA does have online play though, which is probably it's purpose for existing.

... I just bought it. There is no one player mode, you have to play against someone over the net, or use the two player "local" mode. I'm now in the process of continually doing searches for online matches, no one is coming up at all. Twice I've tried to create a game in Tournament Mode, both times my Xbox 360 totally froze. The first screen in the game asks us to send bug reports via the site, I normally can't be arsed, but I might actually do that this time, if these stupid problems continue.

Doing a quick search is like many other XBLA games, it only searches for about 10 seconds before it reports that no one else is playing. It can't be that hard to have an option in which it continually searches for another player until you decide to cancel, it would be similar to creating your own match, but quicker. Perhaps that would kill the servers or something, all I know right now is that I can't even see the damn game running, because I can't connect to anyone and I don't have a second joypad.