Beating the crap out of your friends with minimal lag: CONFIRMED!
Beautiful graphics with retro appeal and rebalanced gameplay: CONFIRMED!
Erecting your foot in the air like a super-sized phallic extension on fire: CONFIRMED!

I should probably attempt to change my username at this point.

As indicated above, I want to steal some of your time, to improve the rest of your life:
Street Fighter 2 HD Remix is so pregnant with awesomeness it is definitely worth your
attention. Not in recent years did a title manage to suck me that quickly in it's socialty
defying vortex than SF2 does.

Or is it really? I mean sociality defying - at least in my inner eye I envision the experience
of playing SF2 in a lobby as the virtual variant of standing in an arcade and waiting eagerly
to get crushed by the guy dominating the machine since the last few hours, with your own
meager change to achieve momentous glory in beating him. The community seems pretty
grown up, not once did I hear someone screaming "cocks" over and over in his headset,
just the grumbling of deep voices and people hammering insanely on their acrade-stick's
buttons - you can literary smell the adrenaline loaded masculinity and concentration.

Which brings me to my only warning: SF2 demonstrates niftly what a major let down the
360 controller is. You're basically forced to play with the analog stick which sadly is too
slow and still not accurate enough. So, after a few hours of excitement and getting my ass
handed, I insta-bought a HORI EX2 acrade-stick. I luckily got the Soul Calibur IV
version for balance conserving 45$ over at amazon's (Which is the same thing as all the
others, as far as I know, just a different sticker). This type of investment is mandatory if
you want to take more than a first peak at the competitive multiplayer.

I have to admit, I'm new to the console scene, and we didn't have this arcade culture in
Germany - I played nothing but Virtua Fighter 3, Mortal Kombat 1-4 (on PC) and some
Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Maybe that explains my excitement. But from all of my experience
with video games, I feel this game is a stellar example of how to put a video game concept
to execution and a must buy for every one who doesn't concentrate on a particular fancy in
games.