While Virtua Fighter 5 is a port of the PS3 version, refinements have been made to pretty things up. The aliasing issues, which were quite noticeable in the PS3 version, are gone from the 360 build. There' s no shimmer, no ugly jagged lines -- Virtua Fighter 5 on 360 is beautiful. There are a lot of nice, subtle effects that add a nice touch to the environments, such as early-morning fog rolling across the arena. The backdrops are clean and colorful and the game runs smooth as a thoroughbred.

SEGA wasn' t ready to talk about any major additions/improvements to the 360 version outside of the visuals. What we can tell you is that VF5 on 360 supports analogue control (since the 360 D-Pad is sketchy). If you want an arcade stick, you' re in luck. HORI is making a new Xbox 360 arcade stick to coincide with the release of Virtua Fighter 5. From the look of the prototype, the stick is small enough to easily fit on your lap and is fairly bare bones. But it appears that it works very well, which is really all we could ask.