Posted
— June 25, 2008 at 3:37 p.m. PDT
Ars Technica has
posted their impressions of the beta. People who aren't having trouble with freezing are all basically saying the same thing.
Ken is way too powerful.
Well, let me start by saying that I am, and by extension Ken is, clearly the superior fighter. I've spent the better part of this morning and what's already passed of this afternoon jousting with Ryu players, and I've got to say that, while I'm impressed with the graphics, this is clearly a beta. Connection and hosting issues are rampant, some of which end in system lock-ups. The game's current handling of lag is also less than stellar. Whereas Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, the previous XBLA Street Fighter title, handled lag by slowing the gameplay down to keep up with data transmission, SSF2HDTR simply skips frames. This isn't optimal, and I'm sure you can figure out why.
Also Evilaj2010 put up a pretty nice video on YouTube showing the beta in action in tournament mode. You can see how this mode works, and some of the latency issues players are experiencing.
