Wow this game is awesome! I've tried guilty gear, king of fighter series, mortal kombat, dragon ball supersonic warrios, gundam seed. This is the best fighting game for gba along with street fighter alpha 3 and kofhb. Characters look huge and the backgrounds are nice. Great job Capcom!

Overall a great game.

This game is really fun for someone like me who hasn't played Street Fighter II since it came out on SNES (and I'm not even talking about the Turbo version). The graphics are nice and the gameplay is fun. I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5 for the following reasons:

1 - Once you get the hang of your favorite character and you play through the game a time or two, it'll be fun to beat the crap out of people for awhile but the game will certainly start getting old... especially after you unlock the Akuma dressed in blue and you can absolutely pummel the crap out of everyone.

2 - I went from playing the game on the default difficulty the first time through up to level 8 on the next. Call me crazy, but there wasn't much of a noticable difference in difficulty to me outside of a few characters: Blanka, Guile, and Vega.

3 - This game has some MAJOR glitches that really take away from the experience for me. First, unless I'm missing something like a combination of buttons you have to press, there's no way to reset your progress. In other words, once you unlock characters and get so far with your scores and best times with all the other challenges, you're stuck with those... but that's not the end of the glitches! Many of the numbers for your best times show up all jumbled, the button menu no longer works (just freezes the game), and sometimes, when I beat M. Bison, the game either glitches to a jumbled screen and freezes or glitches to a screen with a silhouette of Akira's big noggin and - you guessed it - freezes.

So... if I want to start this game over from scratch, it looks like I'm going to have to buy it (new, since other used ones will be somewhere in the same state, I guess) again. Outside of the things mentioned above, I still love playing this game from time to time. I've had it for well over a year now. Overall, it's a great game but easy to master and glitchy after a certain point.

There is no denying how fun it is to play a good SF2 on a portable game system and this GBA version is truly enjoyable! That being said, us Nintendo fans are sorely missing out when you compare this game to the newer and far superior SF Alpha Max for PSP. What we need is a new updated version for the NDS with serious controller enhancements! Why the game limits your ability to customize the controller is baffling to me. And the sound is a little dreadfull as well. Thankfully the graphics are surprisingly well done and the animation is good as well. Overall I would give the game a 3.5 on graphics and content. I love the redone anime style character screens and placeholders and if you can get used to the forced control schemes that limit you to only 4 button, then game plays quite well...But the burning question is if PSP can deliver a perfect translation of Darkstalkers or SF Alpha, then where is the love from Capcom and Nntendo? Where is the new SF release for the more robust, powerful, and capable DS? And how bout some nice innovative enhancements that utilize the DS second screen such as character bios or match/rank info while in battle...Let's get creative and revitalize SF for the DS generation! Until then...if you can find this game it is a worthy pickup to satisfy the SF gamers on the go like myself!