Removed a lot of characters and replaced them with ones no one asked for. The story was also naff. It's no wonder they rebooted the entire franchise with the next game.

Play wise, it was okay. Nothing great. Thankfully it still has an online community, but most of them seem to be pretty much experts at the game who only fight newbies (as infrequent as they are) and refuse to move on. Managed to get help from fellow newbies and online partners to get the plat though