best backgrounds and such are in ss3. best presentation though is ss4. ss2 is old school goodness, it was basically a great old school fighter that the newer games never really came close to. ofcourse the newer games (most of them) are better than ss2, but as fighters they aint that good imo. especially compared to other better fighters (lb series). all the while when ss2 was best fighter of the year that it was released in. in other words, the follow up games didnt improve the formula as they should have done.