This game can be summed up in about four words best fighting game EVER. Most fighting games and pretty basic and get easily bored of expect for few expections like Super Smash, which has great multi-play I might add just like Soul Calibur II. The single play is awesome (don't get me wrong here) but you can easily get bored of how easy cpu players can throw you around and how it only takes abou 2 days to unlock every single character. The real deal is playing with a friend. The pure soomthness of the game and how each character has thier own weaknesses and strenghts really puts the edge on this one. You can counter every move using the guard break (but it's very hard to master so it balances itself out) and how you'll be saying to your friend once you get beat ONE MORE GO AT THIS! I literally played 100 battles just me and my friend on one level and one character each going at it forever. It's just an addicting game, great graphics and controls and of course one of the most non-boring exicting fighting game that you'll be playing for quite sometime. I give it a 9 out of 10.